Monday, 3 April 2017

The Dog Star - Donald Windham

A COMPELLING Story of LOVE and VIOLENCE


SIGNET BOOKS 871
1ST PRINTING APRIL 1951
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY

Take Your Hands Off Me

"Shaking her as a dog shakes a tin can tied to its tail, he lurched toward the door. Only her utter annihilation would satisfy him....But she held onto his shirt and called his name....Cursing her again he swung his fist around and smashed it into her face."

Sunday, 2 April 2017

Fever Heat - Angus Vicker

A Wild Breed of Men
Who Live at the Pace That Kills


DELL FIRST EDITION 13
FIRST PRINTING 1954
NEW YORK, USA
COVER ART BY CARL BOBERTZ

FLESH AND IRON

This is the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown to the iron of the souped-up heaps that are his whole life.

There's a woman named Sandy, who sees in Ace the same fever that burned out her husband, and the same wild attraction that made her love him.

And there's Sandy's brother-in-law, who respects Ace almost as deeply as he hates him.

Theirs is the special world of the stock-car racers-filled with the stench of burning rubber, the tearing shriek of metal against metal. But the fire inside them will be felt by anyone who has ever known the corroding urge to get ahead of the man in front...

Saturday, 1 April 2017

It's Trad Dad - Macgregor Urquhart


DIGIT BOOKS (NO NUMBER)
FIRST PRINTING (NO DATE)
LONDON, UK
64 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
MOVIE TIE-IN

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Wild Water - Ray Slattery

The waves peaked like WoW and the fights got fiercer on the second leg of Rick and Jonnie's surfari shindig


HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS 
SURFARI HIGHWAY SERIES #2
FIRST PRINTING 1966
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Ever tried night surfing at Surfers with a curvey Italian bird?

Jonnie felt the swell beneath his board and looked beyond Maria to the beach, and beyond that. It was strange to see only the lights of the highway breaking the blackness, and the moving headlights of cars silent and ghost-like, flickering. "Let's try this one for size!" And together they cracked an enormous wave.

It was all darkness and dazzle, a black shine of water and the street lights tipping crazily in the distance. The sting of spray at his neck and shoulders and the uncanny life of the board beneath his feet were the only familiar sensations. He thought he heard Maria scream in the smashing thrill of the break as he swept into the beach.

He couldn't see her anywhere.

My God, where is she now, in the wild watery darkness of the night?

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

The Crucifiers - Carl Ruhen

She had broken their rules and knew she deserved to be punished


SCRIPTS BOOKS No. 6
FIRST PRINTING 1969
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

The Crucifiers were a gang of kids, wild kids who rode motorcycles and lived by their own laws.

Laws, not of the jungle, but of sadistic, perverse outlaws from society.

Their bikes were their lovers and their wives and their passports to power.

The girls who rode with them were possessions less exciting, less respected than their bikes. These girls, forced into promiscuity and a life of loveless sex, had only one function-to belong to the group and to obey its every rule.

When one girl disobeyed, she was nailed to a tree. But that was only the beginning of the horror. She was accused of treachery, of selling out to the cops, and that meant she would die, hard and nasty, when the gang found her again.

In the meantime, she found love with another haunted girl, but that love, like her whole life, was soon nailed to the wall...

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.