Saturday 17 January 2015

Hoodlum - Gunther Bahnemann

"Delinquents with sex laws of their own, they defied society in vicious orgies of brutality and vandalism"

 

HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS NA67
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
2ND EDITION 1965

You have never read a story quite like this!

A DRAMATIC EXPOSE!

It was written in the cell of a Brisbane gaol by a prisoner who had the opportunity of observing and talking to the worst kind of juvenile delinquent.

The facts on which this story is based are fully authenticated from press and police reports. It could be the story of any street-prowling delinquent.

Avoid these kids-you may be their next victim!

Friday 16 January 2015

The Girl Outside - Alan Bestic

"The true story of Barbara Marston, 17 years old...Prison inmate - Street girl - Delinquent"


ACE BOOKS H481
LONDON, UK
1ST ACE EDITION 1961
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BARRIE AND ROCKLIFF 1959

THE GIRL OUTSIDE

DAILY HERALD
As a picture of a neurotic youthful underworld a story like Barbara's should have enough material for a picaresque novel plus several TV documentaries

DAILY TELEGRAPH
A raw story-the story of a little girl with an outsize craving for love

the true story of Barbara Marston by Alan Bestic

Thursday 15 January 2015

Undercover Agent-Narcotics - Derek Agnew

"From the secret files of Interpol and from Police records in many countries"


CORGI BOOKS GG965
LONDON, UK
1ST CORGI PRINTING 1961
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959
COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE WHITE STUFF...
heroin, morphine, cocaine
AND THE WEEDS
marijuana, hashish...
These are the narcotics, the killer drugs on which addicts in the United States alone spend more than £100,000,000 every year-with a profit to the traffickers of 10,000 per cent!
UNDERCOVER AGENT-NARCOTICS
tells the thrilling story of a lonely, desperate battle against the operators who sell thrills, stimulants and...death...to their human prey.

WITH 8 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Tuesday 13 January 2015

Mod Rule - Richard Allen


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 450 04759 8
LONDON, UK
1ST EDITION JULY 1980
COVER PHOTO BY ADRIAN MOTT

LONDON MODS IN HASTINGS RIOT!
'The war started now! A Biker splayed brokenly on the road, his machine wheel-spinning against the kerb. Other Bikers roared their engines and bore down on Joe's crowd. It boiled down to a battle between nutty Bikers and gutsy Mods...'

Monday 12 January 2015

The Gorbals Story - Edward Gaitens

"The Toughest Area of Glasgow!"


DIGIT BOOKS R582
LONDON, UK
FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING - NO DATE
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS 'DANCE OF THE APPRECNTICES'

THE GORBALS STORY
Here is a novel that gives us a deeper insight into The Gorbals - a district hitherto notorious only for unrelieved sordiness and hooliganism.

Famous for his short stories, in this novel the author weaves together the comedy and tragedy of Glasgow life in the years preceding and between the two World wars.

Sunday 11 January 2015

Four Boys A Girl And A Gun - Willard Weiner

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

AVON BOOKS 292
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1951
SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944

A Vivid and Powerful Picture of Juvenile Delinquency
Johnny Doyle came from 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 respecter of ancestry, that to the brutal and bold belong the rewards-in life and in love-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 grim light of a pitiless society. FOUR BOYS, A GIRL AND A GUN is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquency in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.

Saturday 10 January 2015

Campus Doll - Edwin West

"The intimate story of a coed who turned 'love' into a big business"


MONARCH BOOKS 189
DERBY, CONNECTICUT, USA
FIRST PUBLICATION ANYWHERE MARCH 1961
COVER ART BY TOM MILLER

CAMPUS DOLL
At Clifton College the male students were never frustrated. When a campus cutie teased and ran, there was always Jackie Hayes' "study rooms" to resort to.

There you could do your "homework" in peace. There you could carry on experiments so dear to the hearts of all eager students, with tutors truly dedicated to their work: Sandy, Laura, Rita, Honey and even Jackie-the campus doll herself.

True, this extra-curricular work led to no degree but it did satisfy a need, with girls on your own mental level-coeds who knew as much about English Lit, Advanced Psychology-and Love-as you did.