Tuesday 29 September 2020

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe

 BLACK RAGE AND WHITE GUILT - THE OUTRAGEOUS NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST



BANTAM BOOKS 553 06919 125
NEW YORK, USA
SECOND PRINTING 1971
RADICAL CHIC WAS SERIALIZED IN CHICAGO TODAY IN FEB 1971
MAU-MAUING APPEARED IN COSMOPOLITAN IN APRIL 1971
RADICAL CHIC APPEARED IN SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT FORM IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE IN JUNE 1970
HARDBACK EDITION PUBLISHED BY FARRAR, STRAUS NOVEMBER 1970

"He understands the human animal like no sociologist around. He tweaks his reader's every buried thought and predjudice. He sees through everything. He is as original and outrageous as ever." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sunday 27 September 2020

Sintime Beatniks - D. S. Froeman

THEY SINNED WITH SHAMELESS FREEDOM



COMPASS LINE CL 155
USA
FIRST PRINTING 1967
A COMPASS LINE ORIGINAL NOVEL
ADULTS ONLY
SALE TO MINORS FORBIDDEN

FREE LUST...

They lived in a whirlwind of free and easy love and sin...Sampling, overtaking, taking and partaking of the dish of sex they desired more and more of the game of erotica and felt they had the right. No morals, no goody-goody hands off them. The best things of life such as sex and free...or are free...or are they, for these

PASSION ARTISTS

Friday 25 September 2020

No Trees In The Street - Charles Hatton


CORGI BOOKS S627
CORGI BOOKS SN1076
LONDON, UK
SECOND PRINTING 1959
THIRD PRINTING 1959
MOVIE TIE-IN
BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY BY TED WILLIS
WITH 16-PAGES OF PHOTOS FROM THE FILM

Her name was Hetty. She was the best of the bunch, they said. Wilkie had his eye on her. That proved it, for Wilkie was tough and he had money and he only went for the best.

At first nobody could understand why Hetty turned him down. The one day things were different. "Ah," they said, "she's come to her senses..."

Wednesday 23 September 2020

The Born Losers


ENGEL DER HÖLLE
aka THE BORN LOSERS
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 4855
AUSTRIA 1968

"Kitten on wheels, with her bike, her boots and her bikini!"

Starring Tom Laughlin, Elizabeth James and Jeremy Slate
Directed by T.C. Frank
Fanfare Films / Otis Productions
U.S.A. 1967

Monday 21 September 2020

Pick-Up Girl - Elsa Shelley

 An angry and provocative novel which probes the greatest social evil of our age


CORGI BOOKS SN755
LONDON, UK
1ST PUBLICATION 1959
COVER ART BY RICHARDS

ELIZABETH COLLINS IS 15

To look at she is little different from any other girl of her age. Pretty, golden-haired, with a maturing, already beautiful figure, she has a happy life, marriage, womanhood ahead of her - OR HAS SHE?

Here in this unforgettable novel, the private dream-world of a teenage girl is brought to vivid and revealing light ... and two vital questions are posed ...

WHY does a good kid like Elizabeth become a pick-up girl?

Who is to blame?

Saturday 19 September 2020

When The Music Stops - Tom Morse with Bobby Lauster

 In the parks, on the streets, countless young people are riding the merry-go-round to hell. Where will they be...when the music stops


LAKELAND 228
LONDON, UK
FIRST BRITISH EDITION 1972

In one of the world's most famous holiday areas - Miami, Florida - the playground becomes a prison to many. Tom Morse was a young Jazz musician who played with Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and other bands in the U.S.A. and Europe.

It was during a 'jam session' that Tom's life was turned right-side up and he turned away from drugs and drink to help other young people find meaning in life.

This book tells the stories of some of the young people who have found help and new direction for living through 'Surfside Challenge' - inspiring reading for people of every age group but particularly helpful for adults who 'can't understand young people today' as well as for puzzled youngsters who think there's nothing certain worth living for.

Thursday 17 September 2020

The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN



AVON 300
8TH PRINTING, JANUARY 1951 (300,000)
NEW YORK, USA

"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