The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

 A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: 300

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: Eighth

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Cover Artist: Ann Cantor

"THIS BOOK IS EMPHATICALLY 

A READING 'MUST' FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. . ."

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (NEW YORK)

This book is emphatically a reading "must" for young people as well as for the sociologist interested in the phenomena of gang warfare and neighborhood tensions. The saga of a conflict gang, told so powerfully in THE AMBOY DUKES, is really twice told: once, within the covers of this book: and again, in every city and town of the U.S.A. Rarely has a writer captured so faithfully and recorded so excitingly the poignant drama that is being daily unfolded for hundreds of thousands of our young people in the teeming pathways we call "streets."

Within the compass of every city street are found eloquent evidence of all society's strengths and weaknesses - from the towering air-conditioned edifices of industry to the filthy dwelling places provided for man to lay his weary body at day's end; from youth's craving for understanding, sympathy and affection, to the community's indifference to those needs. The street bears the tokens of all our ambitions, hopes and capacity to love and be loved. But there are also the scars of our fears, hates, envy, thirst for revenge, and the deep, tortured feelings of guilt which arise our of long forgotten as well as remembered episodes.

When and how can we bring these forces under control? It will, or should be, clear to the readers of THE AMBOY DUKES that they have it within their power to strike a telling blow against the continuance of the conditions - economic, social and psychological - which breed and foster crime.

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

Society for the Prevention of Crime

A Matter Of Conviction - Evan Hunter

EVAN HUNTER examines juvenile delinquency and race hatred in New York's jungle. . .

an explosive novel by the author of STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: GN912

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First

Cover Price: 3'6

Cover Artist:

" I stabbed him four times. . . . ."

The backstreet killer kids of New York; their gangs, their girls, their passions and their hates vividly brought to life by EVAN HUNTER, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" and "Strangers When We Meet" - one of the great novelists of our time.

"High drama - a powerful, swift-moving story..."

-Press & Journal

Cry Tough! - Irving Shulman

"As much a case history of juvenile delinquency and organised crime as it is a novel" - by the author of THE AMBOY DUKES

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-303

Publishing Year: 1958

Printing: Eleventh (Movie Tie-in)

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

A great, mature and moving novel of

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

that no parent of a growing boy or girl, and no adult can afford not to read. . .

"APPALLED BY VIOLENCE,

he found himself employed as a professional rougher-up. . .Engaged to a girl he respected, he found himself drawn to a beautiful tramp. . .

"CRY TOUGH! is a striking, compassionate and unsentimental treatment of a romanticized subject."

-N.Y. Herald Tribune

"CRY TOUGH!"

-now a great motion picture starring

John Saxon & Linda Cristal

A United Artists Release

The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton

The first complete inside story of the Beat Generation

Who they are / What they believe / How they live

Publisher: Black Cat Books

Number: BC-17

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 75c

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What does it mean to be "Beat?"

What effect have the "Beats" had on the American Way of Life?

What are their beliefs regarding sex, jazz, the use of drugs? Is the "Beat Generation" a passing fad or a deep-seated revolt? These and many other questions are answered in this book, which uses conversations, personal interviews, and tape recordings to delve beneath the surface and show the real world of the "Beats."

"The Holy Barbarians is replete with the frank autobiographical reminisces of a group of young Americans of extremely varied backgrounds, who hold in common only a complete rejection of the values of bourgeois society. . . .

No One is going to be able to assess the depth and breadth of this rebellion without referring to Lipton's humane and sensitive book."

- Harvey Swados

Nightmare Street - Hal Ellson

The big, brutal story of a nightmare world where passion is a pastime and pain a pleasure

Publisher: Belmont Books

Number: 9o-316

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First

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"SHOCKING"

is what the Saturday Review has said of Hal Ellson's writing

"FASCINATING"

is what the New York Herald Tribune said of Hal Ellson's smash bestseller, DUKE

TREMENDOUS

is what they'll say about NIGHTMARE STREET, the story of a man who looked for the easy life, only to find that he'd made a pact with a diabolical, deadly stranger who led him into a life of sex, sin and sadism - a life of torture and torment from which there was no escape.

Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felsen

Speed. . .Danger. . .DEATH!

Publisher: Bantam Books

Number: 923

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: First

Cover Price:

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WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY OF THIS MNOVEL:

". . .PUNCH, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, SWIFT ACTION, SHREWD CHARACTERIZATION. . ."

-Dallas TIMES

"Full of thrills and excitement, hard to put down. . ."

-Wichita EAGLE

"DRAMA-PACKED, PLENTY OF SUSPENSE. . ."

-Montgomery (Ala.) ADVERTISER

All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

Cover Artist: 

ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."