Sunday 8 February 2015

The Butchers - Leonard Bishop

"They Lived And Loved By The Law Of The Streets"


POPULAR LIBRARY SP11
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1957
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS JULY 1956
COVER ART BY HOOKS

"TIMELY...POWERFUL...TRUE!"
-Dallas TIMES-HERALD

The frank, realistic story of a teen-age gutter-scrapper, who learned all he knew about life in the sordid streets and tenements of New York's Lower East Side.

It is also the story of three girls - a downtown floozie, an uptown fancy girl, and one decent woman - for whom he slugged his way out of the slums and broke the deadly hold of the Syndicate that owned him, body and soul.

"FURIOUSLY ALIVE"-New York HERALD TRIBUNE
"POWERFULLY, RELENTLESSLY WRITTEN"-Chicago SUN-TIMES
"TOUGH AND TENDER"-Washington POST & TIMES HERALD
"PASSION AND COMPASSION"-Bridgeport POST

Friday 6 February 2015

The Blood Circus - Thomas K. Fitzpatrick

"First came 'Hell's Angels' - now on the sex and terror trail 'The Beasts'


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY NEL 2611
LONDON, UK
3RD PRINTING NOVEMBER 1972

They're mean, vicious, sadistic. Sex and motorcycles are their scene.
They are THE BEASTS - a motorcycle gang to rival HELL'S ANGELS.
They've got the people in California living in terror, so the law decides to plant a man amongst them - but even he isn't prepared for the mind-blowing plans that their psychopathic leader devises...

Thursday 5 February 2015

How Rough Can It Get? - Joe Weiss

A startling story of modern youth

AVON BOOKS 582
NEW YORK, USA
NO DATE
SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED FOR AVON BOOKS


here is a picture
of present day New York City which
is overwhelming in its force and originality.

It is the story of a group of young men
and the hungers and frustrations that drive 
them from girl to girl, from job to job -
and which turns the city into a battleground
of human frailty, with no holds barred.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Black Boy - Richard Wright

"A Scorching Story Of A Negro Adolescent In A Hostile World"


ACE BOOKS H269
LONDON, UK
FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1959
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1945

A picture of suffering, squalor, and injustices: Richard Wright's account of his childhood makes painful but absorbing reading.
-Peter Quennell: DAILY MAIL

It is a distressingly truthful account of the life of a Negro boy...One of the few books I've read that I know I shall never forget.
-NEW STATESMAN

This is a grim book - it's bound to be, because it gives you the human aspect of a terrifying problem.
-B.B.C. BROADCAST

The best review of Black Boy would be in two words: 'Read it.' A record of loneliness, bewilderment and poverty.
-TIME AND TIDE

Tuesday 3 February 2015

Only Lovers Left Alive - Dave Wallis


PAN BOOKS X464
LONDON, UK
FIRST PAN EDITION 1966
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANTHONY BLOND 1964

Smashing, looting, killing, loving-
the teenagers take over all Britain

'a shattering sensational novel...a real original'
DAILY EXPRESS

The adults have committed suicide with Easyway pills, and the teenagers have taken over. Free to smash, loot and love as they like, the gangs roar through the streets on their expendable 
brand-new motorcycles in search of disappearing stocks of lipstick, petrol and food. Free of adult control the youngsters commit every sin but hypocrisy...until they meet the future.

'Grim and often macabre, this contemporary fantasy has a vigorous fertility of invention, rattling pace and dialogue that crackles with vitality'
BIRMINGHAM POST

'arresting and terrifying'
NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM

Monday 2 February 2015

Boot Boys - Richard Allen

By the author of 'Skinhead' and 'Suedehead'


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 450 01697 8
LONDON, UK
6TH PRINNTING APRIL 1975

First there was 'SKINHEAD'
Then came 'SUEDEHEAD'
Now there are 'BOOT BOYS'

Tom grinned, bringing his fist down with a chopping motion on the back of the United fan's neck. He felt the blow jar his muscles. He kicked as the man slumped.

Then the boots went in - hard. Muffled moans lost themselves in the frantic chanting from the terraces.

"Boot Boys! Boot Boys!"

Sunday 1 February 2015

Must I Die? - Francine Wenzell

"A gutter-girl she became a gangster's moll...and then a tycoon's toy..."


DIGIT BOOKS D293
LONDON, UK
FIRST WORLD PUBLICATION 1959

MUST I DIE

This is the tough story of Toni, a young girl who was born in the slums of New York's waterfront strip. She becomes involved in a smuggling racket...and eventually a kidnapping.

But Toni has he big moments too...when a millionaire takes her up and shows her the town. It doesn't last though and, in the end, Justice exacts its price for wrong-doing...