Tough Town - Jack Karney

"SEX, SIN and CRIME In an EAST SIDE SLUM"

Brutal! Shocking! Piercingly honest! - BOSTON HERALD

PYRAMID BOOKS 31

SECOND PRINTING FEBRUARY 1952

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WILLIAM MORROW & CO 1946 AS "THE RAGGED EDGE"

the ragged underbelly of Manhattan...

This was Marshall Place, where brothels and dope were as common as pushcarts and peddlers, and the kids were only one step ahead of the Police.

A desperate world of poverty and frustration that led lovely, red-haired Trina to a terrible maturity; that turned slick, fast-talking Blackie into a big-shot gangster, that made Dave, the dreamer, vow to clean up "the whole stinking mess."

Here is a story that might have been taken out of today's headlines; the grim and gutsy truth about hopped-up juvenile gangs, back-room abortions, and pool-room politics. It is one story you won't be able to put down.

The Mugger - Ed McBain

BOARDMAN 254

LONDON, UK 1959

COVER ART BY McLOUGHLIN

THE MUGGER

The mugger waited in the shadows watching the girl -a pretty one this time. Alone. Her handbag looked heavy. The set-up was perfect. He moved towards her so softly, so quickly, she didn't have time to scream. His arm went around her throat and he dragged her into the alley.

"Don't make a sound," he said, pressing her against the brick wall. Then he crashed his fist into her face. He grabbed her handbag and ran- into the night where a team of determined police were methodically hunting him down.

With Sirens Screaming - Ernest Booth

"They paid the price of a premarital indiscretion"

PYRAMID BOOKS 121

NEW YORK, USA

PRINTED 1954

ABRIDGED

JAIL-BAIT

They were young.

They were alone in the night.

Lost in the fury of their passion, they committed an act that condemned them to a nightmare of shame and legal persecution.

WITH SIRENS SCREAMING 

is the shocking story of reckless teen-agers driven by a merciless penal code into a world of vicious crime.

I'll Fix You - Hal Ellson

A realistic novel of Juvenile Delinquency

PEDIGREE BOOKS 

UK

FIRST PRINTING 1958

From the Reviews of

Hal Ellson's Books

"Mr. Ellson, who has worked as a recreational therapist with juvenile delinquents is undoubtedly telling an authentic story...Morbidly fascinating and shameful piece of social history."

-New York Herald Tibune

"A hard, fast, tough, tight-fisted novel...For strong stomachs and those who like their reading terse and breathless."

-Virginia Kirkus Review

"The results of adult callousness towards children...are depicted with shocking impact...Duke is a powerful condemnation of a society that robs children of their youth."

-Justice

"It is a surprise to come across so excellent a book as DUKE...Such a book depends of course on one thing, namely truth-the authentic truth of real conditions, the psychological truth of individual reactions, the artistic truth of presentation and the moral truth of facing evil that exists right under our noses."

-Dr. Frederic Wertham, the noted psychiatrist in American Journal of Psychotherapy

Reefer Madness

 

REEFER MADNESS

TREVOR L. HUGHES

ZEPHYR PUBLICATIONS

1989-1997

Pretty cool 'dope' fanzine from the people at Hawkfrendz, it ran to 11 issues in total, 10 issues for Volume 1 and just the single issue for Volume 2. Features lots of vintage comic strips, cover art and other 'dope' related features, this is well worth picking up if you see it.

Spirit of 69 Skinzine - Issue 3

Spirit of 69

Skinzine

The third issue of this fanzine dedicated to the Spirit of 69 skinheads and it is as good as the previous two issues. Featuring articles on Subba Culture, Laurel Aitken and Sound Men, as well as reviews and news. If you're interested in Skinheads or Skinhead music, this is well worth picking up, if not it's just nice to have a physical zine rather than an online one, go buy it!

Dropout - Martin Yoseloff

"The haunting novel of a girl adrift...and a generation in torment..."a reading experience not to be missed." - New York Times

LANCER BOOKS 73-770

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1968

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY E. P. DUTTON AS "THE GIRL IN THE SPIKE-HEELED SHOES' 1949

"ABSORBING"

-Miami Herald

"Tenderness, understanding and the poetry of simple lives are the keynotes of this novel."

- Oklahoma City Oklahomen

"Martin Yoseloff, with a delicate perceptiveness of the shades of virtue and evil, here takes the old pattern of a small town girl 'with no mother to guide her' falling into questionable associations, keeping poor company, hunting up temptations as if she had not been tempted enough. Nut Mr. Yoseloff alters the old pattern-decidedly for the good."

- Pasadena Star News

"This could be a dull and lustful tale, bur Mr. Yoseloff fills it with so much compassion, and writesnwith such skill, tht one cannot help being fascinated. It has many of the qualities of Stephen Crane's Maggie."

-American Mercury

YOU WILL NEVER FORGET MAYBELLE REARDON!