Tuesday 11 April 2017

Bongo Bum - Richard E. Geiss


BRANDON HOUSE 1014
1ST PRINTING 1966
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, USA

Jazz, sex, fame, glory...all these were Curt's. But he was a dedicated beatnik who could tell a willing world of willing women where to go.

Monday 10 April 2017

Crash Club - Henry Gregor Felsen

The shocking bestseller about today's daring, defiant hot-rodders 


BANTAM BOOKS A2076
1ST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1960
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE OCTOBER 1958

REVIEWERS HAIL NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF HOT ROD!

"An eye-opener."
WYOMING EAGLE

"Fast-moving story of violence and compulsive intensity."
VIRGINIA KIRKUS SERVICE

"Exciting, dramatically written-concerns boys, their cars and their girls..."
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

"Told in Felsen's pull-no-punches style."
CLEVELAND PRESS

Sunday 9 April 2017

A Nest Of Fear - Hal Ellson

HAL ELLSON'S brand new novel of juvenile delinquency that pulls no punches


ACE BOOKS D-522
1ST PRINTING 1961
NEW YORK, USA

HAL ELLSON is one of the most widely read, tensely realistic writers of our time. Author of the best-selling DUKE, here is his latest no-holds-barred novel of the city streets.

This is the story of the juvenile delinquents, the rumble boys and their tumble girls. Here is the gang, living in the slum that bred them, living in a tenement wilderness side by side with life, lust, love and death.

This is the story of frightened killers living in a 
NEST OF FEAR

Saturday 8 April 2017

Up The Junction - Nell Dunn


PAN BOOKS G712
1ST PRINTING 1966
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY MACGIBBON & KEE 1963

Outside revving bikes were splitting the night.
'Where we going?'
'Let's go swimmin' up the Common'.
'We ain't got no swim-suits with us'.
'We'll swim down one end and you down the other. It's dark, ain't it?'
'Who do yer think's going to see yer? The man in the moon?'
'Yeah and what's to stop yer hands wandering?'
'We'll tie 'em behind our backs'.

'Harshly truthful-yet poetic'
DAILY MAIL

Friday 7 April 2017

Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen - Nik Cohn

A Novel by Nik Cohn the author of Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom


PANTHER BOOKS 586 03572 9
1ST PRINTING 1973
ST ALBANS, HERTS, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1970

Down in bull**** alley
I believe that we are clean
Me and my friend Arfur
Teenage Pinball Queen

Live Clean, Think Clean, Shoot Clean Pinball-
that's Arfur's motto.

When she was ten she fell through a funfair mirror into a new world of honky tonk, labyrinths, neon, freeways, hamburger heavens, where pinball was played in a thousand secret places. Whatever else happened-pinball remained.

Thursday 6 April 2017

Hot Rod Inferno - Robert Sidney Bowen

THIS WAS THE BIG RACE, LIFE AND DEATH RODE ITS CURVES


PRIORY BOOKS 1080
NO DATE
ISRAEL

HOT ROD, COOL DRIVER

For young Dave Mason, devoted to driving, the cross-country road race was the big chance of a lifetime...to settle with the past and find the future, to prove himself the man he wanted to be.

But one thing could ride right over all his hopes: the deluxe rod driven by a first-class heel who hated Dave's guts.

Here are all the bright colors and roaring thrills of the gunning, racing motors, the zing of competition, the excitement of sport...the heart-stopping peril of a crash...the nip-and-tuck finish! Life and death ride on the race - and the heart and spirit Dave can bring to it!

Wednesday 5 April 2017

Somebody In Boots - Nelson Algren

THE AUTHOR OF MAN WITH A GOLDEN ARM


MAYFLOWER DELL 8110
1ST PRINTING 1964
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO

Nelson Algren's SOMEBODY IN BOOTS is a great achievement in sustained realism. His hero, Cass McKay, in flight from the brutalities of a home he hated, wanders across America, jumping trains, trying to survive amidst the submerged tenth, finally, in the Chicago his author knows so well, fighting desperately for happiness with the girl he loved against all the savage chaos of an indifferent society.