The Wasted Years - Jess Stearn

 SEX - SADISM AND MURDER 

- BRUTALITY AND PERVERSION 

- PROSTITUTION AND DRUG ADDICTION 

These are the trademarks of the teen-age gangs

Publisher: Hillman Macfadden Books

Number: 50-109

Publishing Year: 1961

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 50c

Cover Artist:

SEX-and-SADISM by teen-agers!

MURDER-and-MAYHEM by mere children!

You read about it every day in your newspaper but . . .

WHY did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"

WHY did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why I killed him; I didn't even know him?

WHY did a seventeen-year old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"

WHY did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?

Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.

Call Me Duke - Harry Grey

Publisher: Graphic Books

Number: G-215

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Samson Pollen

"Call me Duke . . . .

I'm the kid with the gun. And the gang.

And the dream. The dream of a bigger gun. Of money. Girls. Power!

A dream full of life - yet ending as it must, in killing -

All right, not a dream. A nightmare!"

A SAVAGE, searching novel of desperate youth in the teeming bowels of a big-city slum - corrupted while yet children, twisted in their teens, made mobsters and vice-girls before they are old enough to vote!

By HARRY GREY, author of THE HOODS

Fanny - Hank Janson

 She was rich and bored, and her search for new thrills led her to the sadistic beatnik artist

Publisher: Gold Star Books

Number: IL7-28 (Hank Janson Mystery Series No. 11)

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 

Cover Artist:

Fanny was rich, spoiled, bored with life. She had experienced just about everything and wanted new thrills. So not even Hank Janson could stop her from becoming the mistress and slave of a sadistic beatnik artist. But she got more than she bargained for when the "beatnik" turned out to be something other than just a phony down-and-out painter.

Angel's In The Gutter - Joseph Hilton

They roamed in gangs, these lost girls, women at fifteen - too old at twenty

GOLD MEDAL BOOKS (US) S913

CONNECTICUT, USA

2ND PRINTING AUGUST 1959

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED GOLD MEDAL BOOKS 1955

WALK DOWN ALL YOUR SIDE STREETS

through the raucous stone jungle of the city's backwash - and you'll meet her.

The delinquent. And hundreds like her, roaming the pavements in aggressive knots, schooled on reefers, zip guns, gutter rumbles.

At fifteen they are women, hard and cynical beyond their years, openly contemptuous of the law, eager for the glamour of the big-time ways of violence.

the lucky ones get caught, maybe in time.

Run, Chico, Run - Wenzell Brown

 "Sharply violent serious novel . . . of teen-age gangs and narcotic addiction . . ." 

Anthony Boucher -The New York Times

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 335

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist:

THEY WERE SPAWNED IN THE SIDESTREETS OF HELL

IN VICE, IN POVERTY, IN DESPAIR they grow to womanhood and to manhood.

Walk northwest from this street sign, and you'll hit the district where they live. Spanish Harlem, a no man's land in neon, where the kids are weaned on reefer's, lead pipes and gang wars. None escape this concrete jungle.

Chico tried. Chico, who found tender love in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it - until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths.

RUN, CHICO, RUN

Gangs And Victims - John Foster

GATEWAY BOOKS 0174320531

MIDDLESEX, UK

4TH PRINTING 1978

FIRST PUBLISHED BY THOMAS NELSON & SONS 1974

COVER DESIGN BY JILL LEMAN

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN RUTTER

The slug from Bert's air gun hit Harry in the back. Would Harry tell? And how would he get it out without telling?

len swerved to the right, past the car, then he tried to swerve the bike back in again to avoid the lorry. But he was going too fast! Was there time? Or room?

It was a Smith and Wesson •38 Police Special. Dave spun the cylinder. Who would have the last spin?

Just some of the things that happen to the Gangs . . . and to their Victims.

The Cool World - Warren Miller

All the savagery and frenzy of New York's teenage gang world

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1319

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1965

ORIGINALLY  PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SECKER & WARBURG 1959

"WHEN I COME WALKING DOWN THE STREET PEOPLE SAY 'HERE COME DUKE. HE COOL, HE GOT HEART.' WHEN THEY SEE ME STRUT THEY KNOW A RUMBLE IS ON."

'Here is a small masterpiece; the interior life of a teenage Harlem gangster whose fright and misery are expressed by going down in a rival gang on a fury of zip-guns and knives.'

-DAILY MAIL

'The sex life of the Crocodiles, and Duke's proprietorship of Lu Ann, the gang's fifteen year old tart, is the authentic slum jungle pattern.'

-NEW STATESMAN

'A tour-de-force in which a Negro boy, Duke Custis, tells in his own words . . . what it is like to lead a gang in Harlem. He spends the days he is describing by one means or another, selling reefers, a little light whoring in Central Park, to scrape together the money for a gun.'

-THE OBSERVER