Friday, 3 March 2023

Jailbait Street - Hal Ellson

TOUGH KIDS ON A TOUGH STREET, BRED WITH HATRED AND VIOLENCE


Publisher: Priory Books
Number: 1078
Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)
Printing: First
Cover Price: 25p
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JAILBAIT STREET

Running wild from darkness till dawn - snatching at love in deserted alleys or lonely rooftops - today's tough juvenile punks have turned our city streets into asphalt jungles of terror and lawlessness.

This is the savagely realistic story of a teen-age gang - the Sultans - and their mixed-up leader, Silkie Meegan, whose desperate search for manhood drove him into frenzied excesses of violence and vice. . .

From the vengeance beating with bicycle chains of a rival gang. . .to the degraded sharing of sweet virginal Carol with the rest of his gang. And finally to the fateful family feud with his own father over Charlotte - his father's prostitute mistress - who first taught Silkie her own kind of Jailbait Street love, then hired him to dig up new "business" for her.

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Street Of The Lost - David Goodis

RUXTON STREET WAS UGLY, VIOLENT AND MISERABLE, BUT IT HELD THEM, AS IF THEY WORE CHAINS


Publisher: Priory Books
Number: 1073
Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)
Printing: First
Cover Price: 25p
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STREET OF THE LOST

THIS IS RUXTON STREET

Fat, soiled Hagen rules this street of prostitutes, workers, dope-pushers - and lost souls.

Yet people love and live on Ruxton, as they do on any back street in your own home town.

A powerful new novel by DAVID GOODIS, author of CASSIDY'S GIRL and DOWN THERE.

Sunday, 26 February 2023

Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies


Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)
Number: 631
Publishing Year: 1963
Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)
Cover Price: 4'-
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back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,
they will anger you,
they will make you wonder
...and they will scare
the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 
of teen-age hoods and tramps
who infest our streets
and schools, terrorize out towns
and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle

Friday, 24 February 2023

College Confidential - Irving Shulman


A hotbed of scandal erupts on campus when a professor surveys his students' private lives


Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)
Number: 517
Publishing Year: 1960
Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)
Cover Price: 2/6
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WAS HIS SURVEY STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC?

DID THE PROFESSOR USE HIS OWN APARTMENT TO "STUDY" THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HIS STUDENTS?

COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL

A novel by Irving Shulman
Based on the screenplay Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith
A Famous Players Corp. Picture
Released by Universal-International

Starring STEVE ALLEN, JAYNE MEADOWS, WALTER WINCHELL and MAMIE VAN DOREN


 

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Exterminator - William Burroughs


Publisher: Corgi Books
Number: o 552 10222 9
Publishing Year: 1976
Printing: First
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In dingy hotel rooms, in public places, in ordinary peoples' houses, the exterminator goes about his business: his quarry is vermin, the vermin of society. . .
Moving in space and time between the society we know, and the edge of another galaxy light years away, this savage study of violence, hypocrisy and the abuse of power is at once tragic and comic, satirical and pathetic. William Burroughs has created an incredible nightmare world, peopled by junkies, pimps, quack doctors and green adolescents - weird and disturbing characters like the Lemon Kid, basic J. Audrey the homosexual. . .and the EXTERMINATOR himself. . .

Monday, 20 February 2023

The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs

A Book of the Dead


Publisher: Corgi Books
Number: 0 552 09396 3
Publishing Year: 1973
Printing: First
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The year is 1988. Adolescent guerilla packs of specialised humanoids are routing the forces of civilised nations and ravaging the earth. From their small beginnings in 1969 as petrol gangs, dousing their victims with petrol and setting them on fire for kicks, they have grown to an army, dedicated to violence and death. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys, hordes of pitiless homosexual warriors who move in and destroy the cities - until civilisation collapses, revealing a future of horrifying dimensions. . .

Saturday, 18 February 2023

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.