Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Quant By Quant - Mary Quant


PAN BOOKS M209
FIRST PRINTING 1967
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CASSELL & CO 1966
COVER PHOTO BY DAVID BAILEY

'The girl who became the "enfant terrible" of British fashion tells the riotous St. Trinianite tale of her life, in a zooming high-octane series of intimate pen sketches...It's a frank, often outrageous, laugh-laden account of her headlong plunge to success'
EVENING NEWS

'Mary Quant's autobiography is a must, the success story not only of a young designer but also of the pop revolution'
ECONOMIST

'Mary Quant's story has all the fascination of her own gay and exciting whirl through the fashion world'
BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL

'There's hardly a single peaceful moment in Mary Quant's autobiography...and that's all absolutely right'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

Monday, 27 March 2017

The Savage Kick - Neil Pritchie

This is the life of Roy Haney, who moves through the wild hipster world of the new amoralists looking for...


Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)
Number: 647
Publishing Year: 1963
Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)
Cover Price: 4'-
Cover Artist:

a stud in samarkand

Peddling cut dope to the beats, blackmailing any welshers, nourishing himself on other men's women...Roy Haney doesn't bleed over a screwed-up world out for itself. Roy wants to hit bottom so he can look for the truth under the slime. Maybe Roy and Ava, his soft-mouthed 19-year-old goddess can make it together. Maybe.

Sunday, 26 March 2017

The Gods Of Our Time - Cothburn O'Neal

With Rusty it was always another fix...another woman


PANTHER BOOKS 
FIRST PRINTING JANUARY 1964
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY GIBBS & PHILLIPS 1962

"Oh, Rusty," she said. "Rusty, baby". She relaxed her grip and struggled to get her arms around my neck. I lifted her clear of the floor as my mouth found hers. Her lips were open, her tongue sweet and busy. 

"Hm-m-m," she moaned and pulled away slowly after long contact. She said "Now, Rusty, now!"

Rusty Meaghan had been a successful sportsman in college and was a talented musician. But suddenly he went on a mental bender in a 'beat' world of drugs, orgiastic parties, promiscuity-and tragedy.

*The publishers number is unreadable on my copy of this book.

Saturday, 25 March 2017

Run Like A Thief - Michael Niall

An Exciting Novel By The Author Of BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK


MONARCH BOOKS 421
FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1964
DERBY, CONNECTICUT, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY M.S. MILL AND WILLIAM MORROW 1962
COVER ART BY STAN BORACK

THE BARRACKS...

that's what the neighbors called the sprawling Old-Law tenement on Manhattan's East Side. Now empty of all but four apartments, it loomed dark and brooding, a magnet for violence while awaiting destruction.

Clem Regan was one of the four occupants of The Barracks. A simple man, Clem never looked for trouble. But trouble came with the teen-aged Elena-and a knife-wielding, vengeful gang. Then Frankie Zitek, an escaped murderer, found The Barracks a perfect hideout from the police.

From then on, the two threads of violence enmeshed Clem with ever-increasing tension, making his life a nightmare of terror.

All the chilling suspense that made Bad Day at Black Rock such a memorable book and movie distinguishes this latest novel by Michael Niall.

Friday, 24 March 2017

Buttons: The Making Of A President - Jamie Mandelkau


SPHERE BOOKS 58041
FIRST PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY OPEN GATE BOOKS 1971
WITH EIGHT PAGES OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

This is the true story of Buttons, President of the London Chapter of the Hell's Angels, England, as told to Jamie Mandelkau

Buttons traces the rise of the leader of Britain's Hells Angels from his days as a rocker, through his visit to the United States where he received his Angel colours, to his return and subsequent adventures in Britain. 

It is not a book for the squeamish: Hells Angels are not always gentle, nor does their life style always reflect the accepted norms of society. It is, however, an honest account of one part of the New Culture.

Thursday, 23 March 2017

The Mods - Sandra Lawrence

Her love for David would make her a social outcast but that love made Julie deaf to all advice


LANCER BOOKS 72-171
FIRST PRINTING 1967
NEW YORK, USA
A LANCER PHOTO NOVEL - NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED
COVER PHOTO BY PROFESSIONAL MODELS

Outcasts

David Johnson was the picture of the British Bohemian, the social outcast; an aimless and lawless person. Driving around London on his motorcycle looking for trouble was his idea of getting kicks. Then he met Julie. Julie Williams, the daughter of the man who was hated by the Johnson family for what he did to David's father years ago. Was this family hate to be carried on by David? Could he be in love with Julie and hate her father also?

Here is the touching story of two young people desperately seeking to find a haven for the love they shared; a love that was nor permitted by their families and friends, yet which had to survive because in their crazy, mixed up lives it was the one thing that was true.

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

Kerouacs wildest tale of love. He says completely new and important things about the real tragedy of narcotics and prostitution.

Consul Books - Beatniks - Vintage Paperbacks

CONSUL BOOKS 235
FIRST PRINTING 1963
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1960

Here is a new novel, unlike anything you have ever read before. Jack Kerouac is an author of astonishing virtuosity. In spinning out this, his wildest tale of love, he says completely new and important things about the real tragedy of narcotics and prostitution. He tells the heart-breaking story of Tristessa, a girl of throat-stopping Aztec loveliness, eternally hooked on morphine, and a young American writer staggering between the forces of desire for her and horror for what she has become.