Wednesday 7 January 2015

American Graffiti - George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck

WHERE WERE YOU IN '62?

BLACK CAT BOOKS B-416
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1978
SCREENPLAY MOVIE TIE-IN
WITH 70 ILLUSTRATIONS
FIRST PUBLISHED BY EVERGREEN BLACK CAT 1971
COVER ART BY STEVE HELLER

"A lasting work of art!
Superlatives are dangerous, but sometimes hard to resist. George Lucas's American Graffiti is easily the best movie [of 1973]. Beyond that, I think it is the most important American movie since Five Easy Pieces-maybe since Bonnie and Clyde. The special excitement of the film is that it takes us beyond nostalgia-into a rediscovery of the past and of memories that might have been lost forever. American Graffiti is like going home; it's a primal experience!"
-Stephen Farber, The (Sunday) New York Times

"A very good movie, funny, tough, unsentimental!"
-Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

"A masterfully executed and profoundly affecting movie!"
-The Los Angeles Times

**** An altogether endearing movie that turns back the clock to an age of sublime innocence. Warm, funny, and poignant, a richly entertaining movie guaranteed to please nearly everyone!"
-Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Hate Alley - Martin L. Weiss

"Days and nights of a Juvenile Delinquent..."


DIGIT BOOKS R391
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING - NO DATE

What turned Gary Miller from a lovable boy into a case-hardened criminal?
Was it prowling the jungle of the streets? His Family? His Friends?
Or was it simply the evil, corroding influence of Hate Alley, the breeding place of crime?
Anyway, somewhere along the line this lad went wrong.
As far wrong as you can go-murder!

Monday 5 January 2015

Two A Penny - Stella Linden & David Winter

"Now a World-Wide Pictures production starring Cliff Richard"


HODDER BOOKS 4396
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1968
MOVIE TIE-IN

"If you want me, God, you've got to stand in line like everyone else."
This is Jamie Hopkins, a young man whose insatiable hunger for fame and wealth has thrown him headlong into London's underworld, the world of the pusher and the junkie, of the con-man and the thug. He desperately wanted to be somebody, but the girl he loved and the God he despised forever stood in his way.

NOW THE YEAR'S MOST UNUSUAL FILM
TWO A PENNY
starring
CLIFF RICHARD - DORA BRYAN
AVRIL ANGERS
and introducing
ANN HOLLOWAY
Screenplay by Stella Linden - Directed by James F. Collier
Executive Producer Frank W. Jacobson
WORLD WIDE PICTURES

Sunday 4 January 2015

The Young Killers - Willard Weiner

"The story of a street gang in a big city slum"


AVON BOOKS T-174
NEW YORK, USA
REVISED EDITION - NO DATE c 1957
FIRST PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944
COVER ART BY SUSSMAN

A VIVID AND POWERFUL PICTURE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

JOHNNY DOYLE came of Irish immigrants. BENNY's folks came from Poland. TONY's parents from Italy. Yet, they were neighbors in the slums of America - side-by-side with EDDIE RICHARDS, of old "American stock." Together they learned that poverty is no respect of ancestry - and they patterned their ways after the city jungle's rule of tooth and claw.

Love they took as they found it, money was to be had at pistol point...until blunder and panic pulled the trigger that brought their stark activities into the public light. THE YOUNG KILLERS is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquncy in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.

Saturday 3 January 2015

Born Innocent - Creighton Brown Burnham

"Behind the walls of a girls' reformatory"


PYRAMID BOOKS F-729
NEW YORK, USA
2ND PRINTING MAY 1962
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PRENTICE-HALL MAY 1958
COVER ART BY BOB MAGUIRE

THESE WERE HER GIRLS
LETA, who longed for mothering and a home-and found them in the same establishment her horrified father visited for entertainment...

8-year-old SHIRLEY whose "services" had been sold by her parents-and who still believed in Santa Claus...

SUSE, the crafty forger, who had lived in nineteen foster homes since she was abandoned by a drunken father and mother who didn't care...

13-year-old DEBBY, rented by her mother to a neighborhood man for weekly pay...

Drunkenness, prostitution, robbery, arson and murder. The 276 girls in this reform school had committed every crime imaginable, and an inexperienced housewife and teacher suddenly found herself the warden in charge of them all. Armed only with compassion and determination (and happily ignorant of what lay ahead), Mrs. Burnham was to live with violence, vice and danger for the next ten years.

Friday 2 January 2015

Sex And The Intelligent Teenager - Colin Wilson


ARROW BOOKS 873
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1966

The thesis of this highly original and closely reasoned book is that where sex is concerned we are still living in a 'pre-Coper-nician' era-believing that the sun goes round the earth. Yet never has it been more important that people should think logically on the subject. In a time when almost every teenager has a great deal of 'sexual knowledge' by the age of 14, it is surely imperative to present the problem-as it is presented here-both honestly and clearly.

Thursday 1 January 2015

Teen-Age Mafia - Wenzell Brown

"Make no mistake about it - these are not punk kids, they're an organized mob specializing in violence"


GOLD MEDAL BOOKS s917
CONNECTICUT, USA
1ST PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1959
COVER ART BY BARYE

The Teen-Age Mafia was known secretly to its members as PACHUCO

"PACHUCO girls-hopped-up sexpots who brawl, steal and kill like men-are syndicating crime, working their way into juvenile gang leadership from coast to coast." - From the magazine FOR MEN ONLY

"PACHUCO, a teen-age crime club dedicated to violence, stretches across the nation. Unless its back is broken it will become a greater power than the Mafia." - From the magazine TEEN-AGE JUNGLE

"Only one thing can stop the upsweep of PACHUCO-a glare of publicity. Pachuco is a cult that demands an identifying mark, easily recognizable to its membership. As long as Pachuco is kept under wraps, it's a perfect setup. But once the public, law enforcement agencies, judges and juries know what the Pachuco cross means, Pachuco hasn't got a chance. It's going to be too dangerous to sport the Pachuco cross once law abiding citizens recognize the threat it poses."

The most frightening book you've ever read...
TEEN-AGE MAFIA