The Ticket That Exploded - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 08617 7

Publishing Year: 1971

Printing: First

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THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED

utilises William Burroughs's now famous fold-in-method to give a fragmented and many-sided vision of modern reality. The result is at once an original work of fiction, an intensely poetical novel and a political and morale fable. the author's preoccupation is with the plethora of forces in the world that attempt to excercise 'conrol', and his fantastic imagination once again weaves extraordinary images and ideas into a world that is both personal and universal.

The authoR of THE NAKED LUNCH and THE SOFT MACHINE has now written a book that will take its place among the classics of our time.

The Soft Machine - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 08465 4

Publishing Year: 1970

Printing: First

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THE SOFT MACHINE

is the immediate successor to 'The Naked Lunch', a book which has, in a short time, established itself as one of the key works of post-war literature.

The author's principal preoccupations are still the juxtaposition of good and evil, human passion and sensuality and the power of the machine, the struggle of conflicting forces to control human environment; and with the awareness that nightmares have their counterparts in real life.

This is not a book for the casual reader; nor is it for the squeamish. the serious reader, however, will find a technical mastery, a courage with experimentation and a scientific eye for the new literary research that is unparalleled in modern writing.

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 07938 3

Publishing Year: 1968

Printing: First

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THE NAKED LUNCH

"EXTRAORDINARY AND DEVASTATING,

FUNNY AND TERRIBLE,

HORRIBLE AND HAUNTING.

Like Genet turned into a Marx Brothers script, this is the real journey to the end of the night, a Big Dipper ride through the black underworld of the human soul.

To read it, it's like Ulysses put through a speeded-up projector onto a distorted cinema screen. It is a gruesome, tormented and a chillingly pessimistic view of the universe. But that is where Burroughs dwelt during the time of his addiction."

Kenneth Allsop - Daily Mail

"Mr. Burroughs joins a small body of writers who are willing to look at hell and report what they see.

I can think of only one other writer with whom he can be compared: Jonathan Swift. It demands to be read."

Anthony Burgess - The Guardian

"A furious apocalypse, splendid and exasperating."

The Sunday Times

Sexual Conduct of the Teen-Ager - Dr. S.U. Lawton M.D. and Jules Archer

A shocking, challenging study of modern youth.

Publisher: Berkley Books

Number: G-200

Publishing Year: 1959 (January)

Printing: Second (New Artwork)

Cover Price: 35¢

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The real story behind the headlines - outspoken, authoritative, courageous

City Jungle - Joseph Hilton

Publisher: Brandon House

Number: 944

Publishing Year: 1966

Printing: First

Cover Price: 95¢

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Originally published as "Angels in the Gutter"

TRAPPED IN THE TEEMING JUNGLES OF THE CITY STREETS, RUTHIE FOUGHT WITH THE CUNNING OF A TIGER CAT TO GAIN HER FREEDOM

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

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" 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