The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles

Strange Romance in the Exotic Desert

SIGNET BOOKS 840

FIRST PRINTING JANUARY 1951

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PUBLISHED BY NEW DIRECTIONS 1949

COVER ART BY HOOKS

Harem Bride

"The three wives of Belqassim strode into the room...They threw themselves upon Kit's prostrate form, wrenching the turban from her head and ripping her garments open by sheer force, so that all at once the upper part of her body was entirely unclothed...Then she felt the whip strike across her breasts. As she screamed, she reached out and grasped a head that bobbed in front of her...With all her might she pulled it downward and tried to rip the thing to shreds, but it would not tear; it merely became wet. The whip was making streaks of fire across her shoulders and back."

"The Sheltering Sky, it seems to me, is the finest lost-generation novel since the banks closed and the lost boys and girls began coming home from Montparnasse cafes to find themselves on the farms or in papa's factory."

-Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune

PAUL BOWLES had achieved a distinguished reputation as a composer and a music critic before he turned to literature, in his early thirties. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, published by New Directions, has been widely acclaimed by reviewers. Born in New York, he now lives in Tangiers.

Out Of The Burning - Ira Henry Freeman

THE SENSATIONAL, TRUE STORY OF FRENCHY, A TEEN-AGE GANGLEADER IN THE SLUMS OF BROOKLYN

CORGI BOOKS GG955

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING IN GREAT BRITAIN 1961

TORN SAVAGELY OUT OF THE SORDID BROOKLYN SLUMS, THIS IS THE EXPLOSIVE STORY OF FRENCHY JOYEAUX - GANG LEADER....

BRUTAL

Street fights, muggings, beatings, zip guns....

TENDER

When kids, even in this uncompromising world, manage to fall hopelessly in love....

SHOCKING

Junkies, cellar club orgies and pathetic child prostitutes....

INSPIRING

Because sometimes - out of the burning - one kid climbs towards a new future.

BIG M-G-M FILM coming soon!

"Reeks with squalor and ends in triumph. An astonishing, important, inspiring book."

New York Herald Tribune

This Is It - Hal Ellson

A SHOCKING STORY OF AMERICAN TEEN-AGE GANGS

PEDIGREE BOOKS 
FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1958
LONDON, UK

Juvenile Delinquency And The Law - A. E. Jones

PELICAN BOOKS A 158

FIRST PRINTING 1945

MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND

THE AUTHOR

A. E. JONES is the son of a father and mother who were both elementary school teachers, he went first to the local council school where his parents believed-and he agrees with them-that the best available primary education was to be obtained. He acquired no special knowledge of juvenile delinquency there, though he does remember that one of his fellow pupils achieved some notoriety by graduating to a reformatory. At the age of ten he won a scholarship to the county secondary school; seven years later he won a university scholarship. He left King's College, London, with a first class honours degree, and after a short spell in a City office, entered the service of the law. For close on 20 years he has been a magistrates' clerk and during that time he has had special occasion to study the problems of juvenile delinquency. Opportunities to study the more normal side of childhood have been afforded by his two daughters. For some time he has made a hobby of writing articles of technical interest for legal journals. This is his first full length book.

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

PAUL ZSOLNAY VERLAG

FIRST PRINTING 1948

WIEN, AUSTRIA

Send Me No Lillies - Paul Denver

A penetrating account of what makes a jazz musician tick

CONSUL BOOKS 1448

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1965

"Send Me No Lillies" takes a hard look at what makes a dedicated jazz musician tick; in particular, the inner compulsion which drives him and in the end compensates even for the destruction of his personal happiness.

Is Rosemary Your Daughter? - Shänne Sands

SHE LIVED FOR KICKS..'IT'S A BALL, MAN'.

NEVILLE SPEARMAN 

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1967

Is Rosemary Your Daughter? is a shattering, true story that concerns every one of us.

Rosemary, the desperate lonely unwanted child of an unmarried mother. Her metamorphosis from a young teenager into Bloody Mary the beatnik raging and torn - worn out with its own rottenness. Beaten by its own sorrow.

In England today there are many who are sick in mind and body, but surely nothing can touch for sadness and shame the mixed-up, untidy lives of England's outcast young. the unwanted, the beats and the bastards. All the out-to-shock-the-world young who are tarnished before they even know what life is about.

Rosemary lived for 'kicks', for 'it's a ball, man'. Drugs and sex followed her everywhere, along with the long-haired, unwashed males she slept around with.

Rosemary began by being lonely and unhappy. She took her own life after the jazz and jabs became unbearable, because nobody cared a damn about her.