Jailbait Street - Hal Ellson

She Belonged To Every Boy In The Gang

MONARCH BOOKS 399

FIRST PRINTING DECEMBER 1963

DERBY, CONNECTICUT, USA

COVER ART BY RAY JOHNSON

JAILBAIT STREET

Running Wild from darkness till dawn-snatching at love in deserted alleys or lonely rooftops-today's tough juvenile punks have turned our city streets into asphalt jungles of terror and lawlessness.

This is the savagely realistic story of teen-age gang-the Sultans-and their mixed-up leader, Silkie Meegan, whose desperate search for manhood drove him into frenzied excesses of violence and vice...

From the vengeance beating with bicycle chains of a rival gang...to the degraded sharing of sweet, virginal Carol with the rest of his gang. And finally to the fateful family feud with his own father over Charlotte-his father's prostitute mistress-who first taught Silkie her own kind of Jailbait Street love, then hired him to dig up new "business" for her.

Burial Of The Fruit - David Dortort

A GRIPPING NOVEL OF YOUTH IN THE SLUMS

AVON BOOKS 183

AVON REPRINT EDITION 1948

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY ANN CANTOR

Conflict, Romance and Tragedy in the Slums of Brooklyn

What makes a boy or girl go bad? Why do some of the boys and girls of our city slums succumb so quickly to moral decay? In this tensely realistic novel of slums and gangs, of bitter love and violent death, much of the bitter truth is unashamedly revealed.

In these pages we live and die with young "Honey" Halpern through his hot-blooded, tragic career. From his neglected boyhood in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, he rose to be trigger-man for Lupo's mob of thugs and poolroom racketeers. When his best friend was killed, Honey only lived for revenge-until a new passion entered his life. Beautiful Renee was, like himself, a slum product, a devil-may-care girl pushed around by life. It may be that he shouldn't have loved her, body and soul, the way he did. But like all men, Honey had a good side too, and this new love proved it even to himself.

In this arresting novel David Dortort has given us a searing picture of the conflict of love and evil-of passion and criminal violence-in the mind and heart of one young man. When you have read BURIAL OF THE FRUIT, you will probably say, as the noted journalist Gerald W. Johnson said, that it is truly "A powerful and beautiful piece of work."

Mama - Peter Cave

CHOPPER MAY BE DEAD BUT HIS GIRL LIVES ON

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 450 01454 1

3RD EDITION JUNE 1973

LONDON, UK

CHOPPER MAY BE DEAD BUT HIS GIRL LIVES ON

A MOTORCYCLE GROUPIE BECOMES QUEEN OF THE HELL'S ANGELS

Night Is For Violence - David Bateson

ROBERT HALE LIMITED

FIRST PRINTING 1958

LONDON, UK

A THOUSAND pounds is a mountain of money-when you're broke. That's how Paul Hamilton felt before the cheque came. And when the big windfall arrived, he made plans for spending the money abroad, on his own.

But he hadn't bargained for the intrusion of his wayward wife. Nor had he expected to become entangled with a bunch of teenage delinquents, such as left-handed Nick, a youth with a grudge against society; and Jennie, a pale-faced girl in jeans, struggling towards womanhood through vandalism and scandal. And he hadn't foreseen Diane Summers, mature, good for him, and desirable; nor, somewhere out of sight, the Violent One, with a mind full of hatred and murder.

In The Soho Jungle David Bateson exposed a vice racket in London's seamiest quarter. Now he offers a story of the all-too-prevalent vicious crimes in the darker streets and alleys of any city...your city.

It's A Swinging Life - Johannes Allen

NEL FOUR SQUARE 2137

FIRST PRINTING MAY 1968

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE HOGARTH PRESS 1966

Copenhagen. A city of bars, brothels and the good life. For some, a life bordering on the hysteria, boredom and spiritual bankruptcy. Martin Finch, an aspiring writer, returns to this. Here is Fritz, the old friend who runs an unsuccessful literary magazine. Here is Frank, Anita's smooth and heartless lover. Finally, here is Lulu, who becomes Martin's mistress.

The brittle, feverish surface of life is shattered when Anita takes a trip too many and commits suicide, and martin releases upon Frank al his pent-up fury and frustration.

A successor to the best-selling YOUNG LOVE, this is a vital novel of today, epitomizing the younger generation's moral and social dilemma.

Marilyn Monroe - Maurice Zolotow

"Astonishingly intimate...shockingly frank" -N.Y.JNL. AMERICAN

PANTHER BOOKS 1327

FIRST PANTHER EDITION FEBRUARY 1962

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY W.H.ALLEN 1961

"REALISTIC, SHOCKINGLY FRANK...DOES NOT SPARE ITS SUBJECT THE TELLING OF HER UTMOST INTIMACIES"

-San Francisco Examiner

A girl-plain, born out of wedlock, violated as a child...

A woman-beautiful, internationally famous, acknowledged as an accomplished actress...

What possible connection could there be between these two? In this fascinating and compelling book, Maurice Zolotow, who spent six years finding out, provides the answers....

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.