The Tough Ones - Whit and Hallie Burnett

Stories of life in the raw by NORMAN MAILER, ROBERT PAYNE, STUART CLOETE and many other world-famous authors

POPULAR LIBRARY (GIANT) G352

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING JULY 1959

EMOTIONAL UNDERWORLD

In each of these masterpieces of realistic fiction you'll meet people whose lives were violently wrenched from the conventional pattern:

Wives with too much time on their hands...

and husbands with other men's wives on

their minds. Sensible women suddenly

gone native in the tropics...and proper

young girls trying to grow up too fast.

Each of these stories carries its unique impact. Together they provide an unforgettable journey through the underworld of human emotions.

Eat The Cake And Have It - Jan Maat

A hopeless drug addict with a fifteen-year-old mistress hell-bent on destroying him and his family.

SPHERE BOOKS 566928

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1970

Set in America, this powerful new novel traces the destruction of the secure and wealthy Dainsby household by their teenage drug-addict son.

The boy is dominated body and soul, by his fifteen-year-old mistress who is bitterly determined to destroy him and his family. When this couple take refuge in the Dainsbys' country house, the tragedy that ensues savagely exposes the failures and errors below the circumspect surface of the family.

"Jan Maat stylizes the violence of American society by writing uín staccato phrases that record the inexorable hopelessness of a family without love or understanding."

-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

A Hatful Of Rain - Michael Vincente Gazzo

A Shocking Drama of Raw Human Needs

A 20th Century-Fox production,

starring Eva Marie Saint,

Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa,

and Lloyd Nolan, Filmed 

in CinemaScope

Including 8 pages of scenes from the movie

SIGNET BOOKS S1412

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING JUNE 1957

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE

MOVIE TIE-IN

Compulsion!

A powerful movie and one of the most outspoken Broadway hits of recent years, this is the compelling drama of a secret drug addict - sick, ashamed and desperate - whose baffling behavior drives his troubled wife into his brother's arms.

"Has scenes of frightening power." - Time

Young Man With A Horn - Dorothy Baker

The brilliant, tough and racy novel of a great jazz musician

TOWER BOOKS T-409

CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA

FIRST PRINTING JULY 1946

COVER ART BY GUNTER

The theme of this novel is as old history-the battle of the artist against the world. But the subject of it is as new as the latest dance tune. Young Man with a Horn is the story of a jazz musician who is a genius in the art of "swing," of his meteoric rise to fame, and of the burning conflict between body and spirit.

Rick Martin is still in his early twenties when a famous orchestra leader hears him and brings him to New York, where he becomes a sensation, recognized as the greatest trumpeter in the business. He is unswervingly devoted to one thing-his music. Then, in a Harlem night club, he meets Amy North, brilliant, perverse, complex-everything that Rick is not.

Here is a story with a ring of truth; the story of an artist burdened with that difficult baggage-the soul of an artist. The clean-cut, unpretentious style, the rapid tempo are beautifully in keeping with the theme.

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

OLYMPIA PRESS TRAVELER'S COMPANION SERIES No. 76

PARIS, FRANCE

FIRST PRINTING 1959

The Changeling - Robin Jenkins

POWERFUL...

PROVOCATIVE...

With probing insight and complete honesty a major novelist explores the forces that drive a slum kid towards his final, terrible destiny.

CORGI BOOKS SN897

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1960

COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE CHANGELING

The challenging, provocative story of a teen-age boy from the Glasgow slums, and the well-meaning schoolmaster whose attempts to rescue the boy from his sordid background ends in disaster.

Term Of Trial - James Barlow

HAMISH HAMILTON

LONDON, UK

 FIRST PRINTING 1961

COVER ART BY FRITZ WEGNER

JAMESS BARLOW'S new novel brings the oldest struggle in the world, the endless fight between good and evil, into IVc classroom in the slum Railway Street Secondary Modern School. Here are, under the care of Graham Wier, forty pupils, most of them dull, indifferent and hostile, but a few eager and worthwhile.

Wier, shabby, idealistic and sensitive, is a small man-many of his pupils are obviously far stronger than their teacher. His main enemy in IVc is Mitchell, a fifteen-year-old with the physique of a man and the cunning of his slum environment.

Mitchell's plans include the seduction of Shirley Taylor. In a form of pupils not very willing to learn, Shirley is outstanding. She is a shy, honest, likeable girl, attractive to Mitchell because of her physical appearance and to Wier because of her sincerity. But the battle is more complicated than Wiers knows, for Shirley is in love with her teacher. She is subtle despite her youth and persuades Wier to coach her at home. After a series of innocent episodes, Shirley concludes that her teacher is at last in love with her, and in a London hotel, she declares herself. But Wier's affections are those of a teacher; he rejects her-gently, even reluctantly, but irretrievably. Her love turns to immense hatred. Knowing how it will hurt him she goes with bitter eagerness to be soiled by Mitchell, and with a cunning heart and a shy face complains to her mother of Wier's behaviour.

A charge of indecent assault is brought against Wier and the evidence is alarming. Events that were tender, innocent, now assume a guilty aspect. His trial in the magistrate's court and the effect of the trial upon his life form the climax of the book.

James Barlow's last novel, The Patriots, was one of the big fiction successes of 1960. Film rights were sold for a high price, and it was the Book Society's Choice, has been published in America and is now being translated into nine foreign languages. Term Of Trial, with its frank understanding of today's young delinquents and the awful power they can command, will, we believe create a still greater sensation.