Thursday, 2 March 2017

Road Kid (The Dark Adventure) - Howard Pease

Teen-Agers on the Prowl


BANTAM BOOKS 1110
FIRST PRINTING MAY 1953
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY
AS "THE DARK ADVENTURE 1950

IT'S A THRILLER, WITH IMPACT"

says the New York Times of this compelling and dramatic story of high school kids (some of them from our "very best families") on the bum.

"An honest attempt to tell, in a thrilling adventure story, some of the real problems of youth and delinquency-with no punches pulled."
-San Francisco Chronicle

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Hooked (Narcotics: America's Peril) - Will Oursler and Laurence Dwight Smith

The Brutal Truth About Dope And Crime


POPULAR LIBRARY 528
FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1953
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY 1952 
UNDER THE TITLE NARCOTICS: AMERICA'S PERIL

DOCUMENTARY THRILLER

"This book is a documentary set down with the drama and pace of a thriller. Its villains are drug peddlers at home and abroad, its heroes the Federal agents who wage a ceaseless war against them."
Buffalo NEWS

In boxes labeled "machinery," in secret rooms of ocean liners, in bandages, brassieres and hollow crutches, dope worth millions crosses American borders. School girls prostitute themselves for a "fix," honest men turn gunmen to support "the habit" -while "pushers" prosper in a deadly racket.

Can America survive the international dope conspiracy? Here is the answer in a challenging, courageous book that sounds the battle cry against the underworld.

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Myself and I - Constance A. Newland

Here is the intimate and completely frank record of one woman's courageous experiment with psychiatry's newest drug LSD 25


FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1261 
FIRST FOUR SQUARE EDITION 1965
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY FREDERICK MULLER LTD 1963

LSD 25

'I travelled deep into the buried regions of the mind. I discovered that in addition to being consciously a loving mother and respectable citizen I was unconsciously a murderess, a pervert, a cannibal, a sadist and a masochist. But in the wake of these dread discoveries I lost my fears and achieved complete sexual fulfilment.' With unsparing honesty, Mrs. Newland presents a minute by minute account of her penetration into the still uncharted regions of the unknown. She reveals how she purged, under the influence of the powerful psycho-chemical LSD 25, the depths of human negativity. Examines her overcoming of the baffling problems of frigidity in a liberally-educated woman...recounts her weird fantasies and inexplicable nightmares. This terrifying but often admiring journey is reported with incredible candour.

Monday, 27 February 2017

The Neon Jungle - John D. MacDonald

"Culminates in one of the most explosive scenes in recent fiction." - THE NEW YORK TIMES


GOLD MEDAL s1061
THIRD PRINTING NOVEMBER 1960
GREENWICH, CONN, USA

The smell of stale bedrooms and warm gin hovered over that whole section of town. The women, even the young girls, walked a certain way, looked at men in a certain way.

There was a drifting threat of violence everywhere, and the kids of the neighborhood knew all about knives, garrison belts and bicycle chains long before they were pushed into high school by weary truant officers.

Sunday, 26 February 2017

Girls On The Loose (The Go Girls) - Will Laurence

The WILDCATS, a motor-bike girl gang of alluring tramps who got their kicks from speed and love..


STAG MODERN NOVELS SP 32
FIRST EDITION 1964
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

THE GO GIRLS

They roamed the highways, working at anything to get enough money to live-and love.
The Wildcats, alluring motor-bike gang girls out for kicks.

Saturday, 25 February 2017

Killers Cannot Live - Alvin Kinlay


MICRON BOOKS C4
FIRST PRINTING MAY 1961
MITCHAM, SURREY, UK

Violent death paid twi visits on this warm sunny day in San Francisco. Two murders that were apparently unconnected until police laboratories found the link.

The manhunt was on.

A really thrilling story for lovers of crime fiction.

Friday, 24 February 2017

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