Taffy - Philip B. Kaye

"..A FIERCE, JARRING AND IMPORTANT PIECE OF WORK.." N.Y. TIMES

AVON BOOKS 377

NO DATE (1951)

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY RAY JOHNSON

"It is tough like 'Studs Lonnigan'...a devastating chronicle...on juvenile delinquency..."

N.Y. DAILY MIRROR

"Mr. Kaye has written frightening, brilliant scenes that show Taffy and his gang getting drunk, robbing an apartment, playing pool, fighting. Taffy and his friends...are terribly alive, completely believable."

Saturday Review of Literature

"...terrifically human, this novel is a fierce, jarring, and important piece of work."

N.Y. Times

Rarely has a book so faithfully recorded the drama that unfolds daily in the slum sections of our great cities. The story of TAFFY could be the story of a kid any of us might know. We feel sure that after having read it, you will better understand the normal urges of youth and what happens when a sordid environment perverts a boy until delinquency results.

Play It Cool - Jack Gerstine

WILD DAYS AND NIGHTS OF A YOUNG HOOD

ACE BOOKS D-337

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1959

DELINQUENCY'S ONE-WAY STREET

The teeming streets of Brooklyn were a battleground for fifteen-year old Joey Vanne. A bright, personable kid, he might have gone far once, but he was already marked a "Juvenile Delinquent."

It all began when Joey learned that being handy with his fists made him a Big Shot with his gang and with the girls who hung around his cellar club. At times Joey dreamed of getting out of the rat race-until the day a raped girl's father went after him with a butcher knife. Joey was not guilty of the rape. But the police were also looking for him and the only thing that might save him now was the zip gun hidden in his jacket.

You've read about boys like Joey Vanne - good kids gone wrong. But never before has there been such a blazingly real story-one that is utterly true to life-about today's teen-agers on the prowl.

Marihuana - William Irish

A cheap and evil girl sets a hopped-up killer against a city.

DELL 10c BOOKS  11

NEW YORK, USA
NO DATE
THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN 'DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY'
COVER ART BY BILL FLEMING

"...roaming the streets...a menace, a living death, to anyone that crosses his path."

MARIHUANA turns weak King Turner into a deadly weapon, a conscienceless killer with no more human feeling than a hooded cobra or a mad dog. Turner is the novice taken along to a "ranch" to blaze weed; his reactions to the drug were intended to provide comedy for his veteran-smoker companions. Then Turner gets his hands on a knife-and a gun!

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.