Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Albion! Albion! - Dick Morland

'Makes "Clockwork Orange" seem a gentle fantasy'. 

-Time Out



NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 30156
FIRST NEL EDITION NOVEMBER 1976
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY FABER AND FABER 1974

'IT MAY ALL ONE DAY COME TRUE.'

1982. Two coach-loads of Spurs supporters are burned alive by Villa fans. Football is banned.

So the supporters seize the grounds and turn them into arenas where howling mobs hurl Molotov cocktails and spray acid at one another.

Parliament is dissolved, the police go on strike.

One man comes to fight the fascist terror of the omnipotent fans.

Sunday, 6 September 2020

The Delinquents - Anthony Bloomfield

 

ICON BOOKS F7
FIRST PRINTING 1962
LONDON, U.K.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HOGARTH PRESS 1958

Juvenile (and adult) delinquents in a seedy seaside town. The delinquents include not only two young girls, Penny and Belle, but their evil and amoral mothers- and, most deeply involved of all, a local magistrate.

"A study in the fascinations of corruption." 
-The Times

"Mr. Bloomfield produces great tension; he is a genuine storyteller." 
-Daily Telegraph

"...few writers can make the every day and the seedy so real, so strange, so menacing." 
-V.S. Naipaul

Friday, 4 September 2020

Brighton Belle - Arthur Le Bern

 The sensational novel of a vicious back street world of pimps, prostitutes and racketeers


Digit Books R831
First Printing 1964
London, UK
Originally published in hardback by W.H. Allen & Co, 1963

BRIGHTON BELLE

ANOTHER BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY

Set in the twilight world of racecourse tipsters and small-time gangsters, BRIGHTON BELLE is a searing, dramatic story of what happens to a group of oddly assorted people on a day in summer.

It is a chilling story about shady characters mixed up, for a violent period, with the law-abiding and the innocent, by an author who is master of suspense and evocation. Mr. LaBern's first novel IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY was hailed by James Agate as "the most exciting thing of its kind since Somerset Maugham wrote "LIZA OF LAMBETH", and was filmed successfully by Ealing Studios.

A DIGIT BOOK

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Delinquent - Morton Cooper

The startling story of a teen-age gang

 

RED SEAL BOOKS 146
First Printing • No Date
London, UK
Originally printed by Avon Books, USA

CHRISTIE WAS CAUGHT

between two worlds. In the world of easy money, excitement, kicks, Christie's pals were neighbourhood punks like:

MODO - who lived for violence.

PEG - who was everybody's girl.

VINCE - who didn't want to be called "chicken."

But there was another world, too- the world of:

VICTOR - who played square with everyone.

Mr. CROSSMAN - who tried to show Christie that growing up could be decent - and fun.

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

The Cool World • Vintage Cinema Programmes 4


THE COOL WORLD • VINTAGE CINEMA PROGRAMMES
ISSUE 4 
MAY 2020

Limited print run of just 25 copies. Hand numbered. Features vintage European cinema programmes. 

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

The Cool World Issue 2


THE COOL WORLD 
ISSUE NO.2 
AUTUMN 2019

Limited Print of 50 copies, full of vintage European cinema programmes.

Monday, 5 August 2019

Schamlos


SCHAMLOS
aka SHAMELESS
ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE Nr. 7988
WEST GERMANY 1968

"A debt collecting teenage gangster falls in love with an exotic dancer and seeks revenge after she's murdered."

Starring  Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden and Udo Kier
Directed by Eddy Saller
Based on the novel by Karl Hans Koizar & Theodor Ottawa
Commerz Film, Donau-Filmgesellschaft and Smidell-Film
Austria, West Germany & France
1968