Monday, 15 May 2017

Hashish - Henry De Monfreid


PENGUIN BOOKS 527
1ST PRINTING 1949
FIRST PUBLISHED IN FRANCE AS 'LA CROISIERE DU HACHICH'
THIS TRANSLATION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1935

Sunday, 14 May 2017

The Leather Boys - Eliot George

They didn't have to look for trouble- they made it


FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 813
1ST PRINTING 1963
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANTHONY BLOND 1961
MOVIE TIE-IN

The boys on the bikes.

The boys who do a ton on the by-pass.

Aimless, lawless, sometimes cowardly and vain, they spend a packet on their clothes and hair-styles.

Working-class boys with big wages, and nothing much to do with their money.

This is the story of two of them, Dick and Reggie.

Reggie was the married one-he was only seventeen when he got tied up and just didn't know what it was all about. He left his wife and went to stay with Dick, and the relationship that developed between them was just too hot to handle.

This is a book with a vicious kick to it. Here are the problems of delinquent youth which growl and grumble under the facade of our society, threatening to blow it sky-high. You have read about these boys in the newspapers; this book takes you right there with them; under their leather jackets-under their skins.

Friday, 12 May 2017

Wheelie! - Stuart Hall

Bikies on a rampage of sex, sin & destruction


SCRIPTS 14
1ST PRINTING 1973
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

"What do you chicks want?" demanded Onley.

"What do you think?" asked Jane, looking pointedly at Holmes' groin, than across at the joint Tait was smoking. "a little bit of fun and maybe some grass?" "I haven't got much left!" snapped Tait, not looking at the scared Sondra standing near him. "So you can forget about that for a start!"
"Now there's no need to be like that," soothed Jane. "Tell you what! You take little Sondra there and have a little sleep with her in one of the rooms upstairs, and maybe you'll think otherwise later on." Tait swung his eyes slowly towards Sondra, noting her short-cut mousy-coloured hair, and the attractiveness of the young girl. "Is she old enough?" he asked quietly.
"They're never too young," grinned Frances, moving closer to Onley. "They've all got to learn some day." "You mean she's a virgin?" asked Tait, interest in his eyes. "Well, she's never had a man," said Jane cryptically, then looked at Holmes. "Now, big boy, how about you and me?"

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Skinhead - Richard Allen

The savage story of Britain's newest teenage cult of violence


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 2758
1ST PRINTING JULY 1970
LONDON, UK

AGGRO - That's what Joe Hawkins and his mates were looking for, with their shaven heads, big boots and braces.

Football matches, pub brawls, open-air pop concerts, hippies and Hell's Angels all gave them chances to vent their sadistic violence.

SKINHEAD is a story straight from todays's headlines - portraying with horrifying vividness all the terror and brutality that has become the trademark of these vicious teenage malcontents.

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

The Day Of The Sardine - Sid Chaplin

'A NOVEL WHICH NOBODY SHOULD MISS' - SUNDAY TIMES


PANTHER BOOKS 1895
1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1965
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE 1961

Arthur thinks most people live like sardines and are easily caught. But at sixteen he doesn't want to be packed head to tail, tail to head, into a tin coffin. He wants to be 'Somebody'. He wants to get away from home where his mother has taken up with the lodger, to dress how he wants, to do as he wishes. But being 'Somebody' for Arthur means joining a gang, being a bum, and an adulterer, and eventually, involvement in a murder.

'A FINE FULL-BLOODED NOVEL...RICH, VIVID'
-Sunday Telegraph

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

The Dope Den - Fenton Robins

Dynamic Long Novel of Mystery in the East End


THE THRILLER
NO. 119 VOL. 4 MAY 16TH 1931
LONDON, UK

Monday, 8 May 2017

Dope! - L. C. Douthwaite

A SENSATIONAL BOOK LENGTH MYSTERY NOVEL


THE THRILLER MAGAZINE 
NO.66 VOL.2 - MAY 10TH 1930
LONDON, UK