Tomboy - Hal Ellson

A Shocking Novel of Teen-Age Gang Life in the Slums of Manhattan

BANTAM BOOKS 945

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1951

A GRAVE CHALLENGE

"IN HIS NEW NOVEL, Hal Ellson rips aside the words 'juvenile delinquency' and shows the full extent of the horror and tragedy beneath.

"Far more graphic than court records or newspaper reports, his shocking picture of the operation of teen-age gangs exposes one of the major social problems of our large cities. Mr. Ellson's aim is not only to describe the deplorable practices of groups of so-called hoodlums, but to point directly to two of the chief causes of their delinquency: first, always, their appalling home life; second, the maelstrom outside in which they are set adrift-an environment compounded of crime, violence, poverty, insecurity and fear.

"Some readers may feel that the author could have presented his case more persuasively by replacing some of the sensationalism with constructive scenes, but Mr. Ellson seems deliberately to have avoided this method. He takes the whole shocking and brutal story and flings it down as a challenge. There can be no argument, at any rate, as to whom it may concern. It concerns us all."

-reprinted from the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Gang Rumble - Edward Ronns

The city streets became a jungle of fear and terror!

RED SEAL BOOKS 153

LONDON, UK

NO DATE

GANG WAR!

The time:

Saturday night-eleven o'clock.

The place:

Sandor's Bowling Alley.

The operation:

Lancers vs. Violets in a teen-age gang rumble destined to shake the city to its concrete core.

The result:

Death - sudden, violent, and senseless.

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