Friday, 14 April 2017

Cry, Brother, Cry - Jack Karney

A Novel Of Delinquents And Mobsters In The Making


POPULAR LIBRARY EAGLE BOOKS EDITION G304
1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1959
NEW YORK, USA

VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS

Brawling in the streets...making love in dark hallways...snitching the luxuries they crave...the tough juveniles of New York's Lower East Side know only one way to get back at the sordid world that spawned them-by organized violence.

This is the wallop-packing story of one teen-age gang leader who made the easy shift from switch-blades to guns, from street rumbles to organized violence and vice...Until the jobs he pulled off for the city's top crime organization became too dirty for even corrupt cops to take.

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Black Is Beautiful - B. B. Johnson

He's a bad, bold soul brother up to his sweet hips in revolution - and women!


PAPERBACK LIBRARY 64-305
1ST PRINTING APRIL 1970
NEW YORK, USA

Black May Be Beautiful, Baby, But It's Also The Color Of Death...

Richard Abraham Spade-Superspade-was beginning to have his doubts about the militants.
He had seen for himself how the Black Jaguars handled renegade brothers. It was the most brutal ritual he had ever witnessed. 
He had seen how the Jaguars had sprung their brilliant leader, Ridge Hatchett, author of Hell on Fire, from Death Row. And he knew about their master plan for revolution.

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

The Mysterious Pregnancy - Nigel Heseltine

SHE FOUND CONTENTMENT ONLY AFTER A PLUNGE INTO THE HEADY LIFE OF PARIS


FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1048
1ST PRINTING 1964
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1953

For Lu Rienzi time is running out.

Somewhere in Paris is her lover-the father of her unborn baby.

If she fails to find him in time then she must find a doctor to get her out of trouble.

What she does find is the beat half-world of Paris, with its crazy values and shameless indifference to conventional morality.

Drawn irresistibly into this new existentialism Lu begins to see her problem in a new light, and her life starts on a new course.

Read on...the book is witty, brilliant and full of refreshing sophistication.

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