Rusty Desmond - Steve January

SHE GREW UP TOO FAST

AVON BOOKS T-359

SECOND PRINTING NO DATE

NEW YORK, USA

"...better than The Amboy Dukes."

"I congratulate Mr. January. He's written a book about juvenile delinquency in America that is exciting and true, so true it is disturbing, so disturbing it may make people think and do; and if a novel does these things then it succeeds for the author, the reader and society. Read this book. It's good-and important."

...From the introduction by Irving Shulman

Bus Stop - William Inge

The touching and hilarious story of a footloose torch singer who knew too much about men and a cowboy who didn't know enough about women... 

"an uproarious comedy..." - NEW YORK TIMES

BANTAM BOOKS 1518

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 1956

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE JUNE 1955

FIRESIDE THEATRE SELECTION PUBLISHED MARCH 1956

COVER PHOTO BY MILTON GREENE

cherie and the cowboy

Cherie was a chanteuse. She said, "I call m'self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need-like Hildegarde. I won a amateur contest down in Joplin, Missouri, and that got me a job in a night club in Kanz City. But working in a night club ain't all roses..."

Bo Decker had his picture taken by Life magazine because he was a champion professional rodeo rider. Bo had heard about women only he'd hardly ever seen one. Bo was a large, beautiful hunk of a 

man-but green as new grass when it came to Cherie.

Bo and Cherie got together when they were stranded at a bus stop one night.

Their story is one of high humor-a mixture of brag, heartache, bluster, and the funniest tough love affair ever put on stage, screen, or between the covers of a book. It is filled with comedy, compassion and tenderness-

"A MEMORABLE ACHIEVEMENT..."

NEW YORK TIMES

Marilyn Monroe stars in the 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope Film

The Promoter - Orrie Hitt

VICE WAS HIS BUSINESS, AND HE LOVED HIS WORK!

A NOVEL OF INNOCENCE AT THE MERCY OF SYNDICATED LUST

BEACON BOOKS BB 142

FIRST PRINTING 1957

NEW YORK, USA

He organized a SYNDICATE OF SIN!

AT FIRST it was just for fun-amateur stuff. It did no harm to anybody, except maybe one or two innocent young kids in a cellar club, kids like Marilyn Wentworth...

But then Al Robbins began to put things on a professional basis. He forced Marilyn to recruit good-looking college debs. He sent his lieutenant, big Tony, after pretty little factory workers and gamins from the garment district. Soon he had everything a man needs to be kingpin of a vice racket. Everything, that is, except a go-ahead from the mob-and from his own tigress of a girl-friend.

SOME HOODS FIGHT THEIR BATTLES WITH KNIVES AND TOMMY GUNS. 

BUT AL WENT THEM ONE BETTER. HIS BEST WEAPONS WERE WOMEN....!

The Leather Boys - Eliot George

ANTHONY BLOND 1961

FIRST PRINTING

LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY OLIVER CARSON

The leather boys are the boys on the bikes, the boys who do a ton on the by-pass. For their expensive machines, they need expensive leather jackets. They are an aimless, lawless, cowardly and vain lot with a peacock quality to their clothes and hairstyle.

The problem of these working-class boys with big wage packets and nothing to do is the background to The Leather Boys which is the story of two of them, Dick who lives with his widowed grandmother and Reggie who married Dot when he was 17.

After a row with his wife Reggie goes to stay with Dick in his grandmother's house; their friendship develops into love and they break away from their gang to rob a local cinema together.

The author of The Leather Boys does not treat homosexuality as a personal or social problem but takes for granted that the love between these two inarticulate young men could exist between two human beings at any time at any place.

The climax of the story is impelled by the forces of the times and the place in which they move-the psychological pressures and the transient, indefinite air of the south London suburbs.

Black Opium - Claude Farrere

THE SHOCKING ECSTASY OF THE FORBIDDEN

BERKLEY BOOKS G-120

FIRST PRINTING APRIL 1958

NEW YORK, USA

FORBIDDEN

The world of BLACK OPIUM is a forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy...

Here is a world of torture and torment, filled with the fantastically erotic shapes of the living nightmares of depraved love-a book that will astound you with its frank revelations of vice and corruption...

The author of BLACK OPIUM was awarded the Prix Goncourt and was a member of the French Academy. He was also awarded the Legion Of Honor.

Three Men - Jean Evans

Three Men at odds with themselves and society, a delinquent/a necrophile/a homosexual

EVERGREEN BLACK CAT BOOKS BC-40

SECOND PRINTING NO DATE

NEW YORK, USA

JOHNNY ROCCO-

Tough-on the outside-but plagued by his sense of sin and guilt.

WILLIAM MILLER-

Blind and lonely, obsessed with death and nature.

MARTIN BEARDSON-

Articulate homosexual, wrapped in a cocoon of weird ritual.

These brilliant personality portraits have been hailed as a new kind of psychological reporting-"biographies of emotion." Novelists and psychiatrists, critics and teachers have joined in a unanimous chorus of praise for their insight, vividness, sympathy, excellence of style.

"I found Miss Evans' book completely fascinating, and I can only admire how alive and vivid she succeeded in making the three men." Norman Mailer

"Miss Evans' book is invaluable for the teacher and student of psychology.

...(She)writes beautifully."

Erich Fromm

Black Stockings For Chelsea - Paul Denver

A STARTLING NOVEL OF LIFE AS IT IS LIVED BY CHELSEA'S BEATNIKS - HORRIFYINGLY REVEALING

CONSUL BOOKS 1253

FIRST PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

A novel based on an actual case history which tells of the truly frightening way in which a group of young people are prepared to live only for the kicks that come from sex, drug-taking and drinking in London's Chelsea.

Paul Denver, with great insight, explores the agonies of a young girl's attempt to fight her way through the tangled undergrowth of a great city.