Jadie Greenway - I. S. Young

THE STORY OF A GIRL'S FIGHT FOR DECENCY IN BROOKLYN'S HARLEM

AVON 269

AVON REPRINT EDITION 1950

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CROWN PUBLISHERS 1947

The Realistic Story of a Girl Delinquent

Young Jadie Greenway was hard. On the squalid slum-streets where she was raised, a girl had to fight to survive...and fiery-spirited Jadie, demanding every child's right to grow up into decent maturity, never ceased fighting.

This powerfully realistic story of an adolescent girl's struggle against a brutal environment and easy temptations makes gripping reading. Seldom has Avon been privileged to bring its readers so authentic an indictment of one of society's most shocking flaws. The meaning of JADIE GREENWAY is starkly implicit in every scene, on every exciting page.

The Circle Of Guilt - Frederic Wertham M.D.

DOBSON BOOKS 

FIRST EDITION 1958

LONDON, UK

DR WERTHAM has had many years' experience with disturbed and delinquent youngsters. His newest book exposes the sobering facts and hidden causes behind one of America's most shocking murders-the true story of Frank Santana, the so-called 'hoodlum' who killed the so-called 'model boy', Billy Blankenship, in a New York street fight.

In this book he describes how a psychiatrist examines a case and tries to understand the psychological and social background. He has here set down what he found when called in by the defence to examine the seventeen-year-old Santana.

A fatherless boy, oldest in a family which had recently moved from Puerto Rico, Santana had belonged to a stick-ball club which had evolved into a gang for self-protection. All members were Puerto Ricans living in a neighborhood where prejudice against them was very strong. What is not generally known is that his victim was also a member of a gang which made practice of beating up Puerto Ricans. Tragedy was inevitable, and actually both boys were victims of their environment and the standards they had been taught to accept. If all the clues are followed, the circle of guilt enlarges in every case. A lesser plea (of second degree murder) was accepted in the case and the damning data Dr Wertham has included here was never heard in court. This book is a plea for understanding, published with the hope that it may guide others concerned with building ethical and social standards of the young.

G.A. Lyward, of Mr Lyward's Answer, relates Dr Wertham's findings and thesis to contemporary England and emphasizes their importance for us.

I Swing - Mamie Van Doren

The uninhibited, uncensored, heretofore unpublished autobiography-behind-the-autobiography of the one sex symbol whose naked private life is even more shocking than her nude screen image...

NOVEL BOOKS 7N769

FIRST PRINTING 1965

CHICAGO, USA

For the first time, the one and only Mamie tells all, revealing everything on subjects ranging from...

HER MOTHER'S ADVICE

My mother turned to me and appeared to be angry with me. "Let that be a lesson to you," she muttered. Even when you wear a bra."

to

NUDE PHOTOS

I think I should talk about the endless procession of still photographs that are passed around in Hollywood which show various stars in various stages of undress and in peculiar positions...

to

LIZ TAYLOR

Liz is dumpy. Her legs are too short and she is built to close to the ground. She is heavy.

to 

MARILYN MONROE

The sweater was loose but not loose enough to hide firm large bosoms and her duck pants held tightly to her buttocks for all to be fascinated. To me and to everyone there she had an animal magnetism that yelled, "woman-woman-woman..." My desire...

The Cool Book - Art Unger

A Teen-Ager's Guide To Survival In A Square Society

 

MONARCH SELECT BOOKS MS21

FIRST MONARCH PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1963

FIRST PUBLISHED BY PRENTICE-HALL INC 1961

ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIANE CASSAN

Start living the c-o-o-l way...

Find out how to...

Ask for a Date

Talk to a Date

Choose a College

Find a Summer Job

Hold on to a Steady

Break off with a Steady

Get Asked to the Prom

Get Along with your Family

Meet the Class Dreamboat

Here's a book that swings for real! It tells all the "ins" and "outs" about everything from choosing a career to things to do on a date besides necking! Plus the coolest, newest "Beatnik" and "Martian" jokes going.

Baron's Court, All Change - Terry Taylor

A young man's diary about London....the darker side of London....

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1231

FIRST FOUR SQUARE EDITION 1965

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY MACGIBBON & KEE 1961

'The place where I live is called Greater London. To get to the London which isn't so great you have to board a tube train which goes on a twenty minute journey above ground till you come to a station called Baron's Court...At that point, where the train first goes into the tunnel, you are leaving Greater London, where the natives starve themselves to buy a new car...and enter the manor of the real London'.

The hero of this novel, a shocking engaging teenage refugee from Greater London, recounts his experiences of the real London. Here he joins a Spiritualist group where he finds a woman who supervises his initiation into more earthly mysteries. A meeting in a jazz club leads him into partnership with a dope peddlar. From then on things begin to move fast-too fast...

Mix Me A Person - Jack Trevor Story

W.H. ALLEN 

FIRST PRINTING 1959

LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY 'KING'

At a time when most crime stories conform increasingly to one or two well-worn patterns, it is refreshing to come across so original a writer as Jack Trevor Story, whose short novel, The Trouble with Harry, was made into a successful film by Alfred Hitchcock. This new book, his first full-length thriller, is a thoroughly unusual, originally planned and entertaining novel.

Harry Jukes is a rock 'n' roll, skiffle-playing Teddy Boy convicted of the murder of a policeman, but Dr. Anne Dyson, a young and somewhat unconventional psychiatrist, is convinced he is innocent, and sets out to prove it. How she does so keeps the reader spellbound.

The author's huge sense of humour gives the book an altogether unexpected quality, and his ingenious weaving of plot and sub-plot compels attention. This book is at the same time a cynical and sentimental, a crude and accomplished, slice of life-in fact an explosive experiment in impudence which adds up to one of the most inventive thrillers in years.

The Immortal - Walter Ross

FREDERICK MULLER LTD

FIRST PRINTING 1958

LONDON, UK

Johnny Preston, the handsome, tough idol of a million teenage fans, was born into a crazy, mixed-up generation of postwar American adolescence. Soon his ability to convey emotion on a movie screen made him one of its leading representatives. But adulation wasn't enough for Johnny. He had to move faster and live wilder than everyone else. He had to drive his car hard and fly a 'plane carelessly, for kicks-and one day that was the end of Johnny Preston.

With a major film starring Preston still to be released, the studio wasn't talking much about the ghoulish free publicity that it was getting from the teenagers, who rioted around his grave chanting that Johnny wasn't dead.

Others were not so reticent. There was a woman, old enough to know better, but, like the others, tempted by the something that hung like a charm around Johnny Preston. She kept a diary. The girl from the acting school had a shorthand record of her life with Johnny. The psychoanalyst whose male patient initiated Johnny into homosexuality had only to go to his detailed, clinical file. The film starlet talked off the record to a journalist about her relationship with Johnny, and it was a lot franker than the article which subsequently appeared in a magazine. And there was a press agent who had a couple of things to add about a personality that was extravagant even by Hollywood standards.

In this novel Walter Ross builds up, with astonishing skill, a character-study of a talented young man who sought the unattainable and who became so much a part of the world of illusion and shadow that he seemed to exist even after his death.