Friday 7 April 2017

Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen - Nik Cohn

A Novel by Nik Cohn the author of Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom


PANTHER BOOKS 586 03572 9
1ST PRINTING 1973
ST ALBANS, HERTS, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1970

Down in bull**** alley
I believe that we are clean
Me and my friend Arfur
Teenage Pinball Queen

Live Clean, Think Clean, Shoot Clean Pinball-
that's Arfur's motto.

When she was ten she fell through a funfair mirror into a new world of honky tonk, labyrinths, neon, freeways, hamburger heavens, where pinball was played in a thousand secret places. Whatever else happened-pinball remained.

Thursday 6 April 2017

Hot Rod Inferno - Robert Sidney Bowen

THIS WAS THE BIG RACE, LIFE AND DEATH RODE ITS CURVES


PRIORY BOOKS 1080
NO DATE
ISRAEL

HOT ROD, COOL DRIVER

For young Dave Mason, devoted to driving, the cross-country road race was the big chance of a lifetime...to settle with the past and find the future, to prove himself the man he wanted to be.

But one thing could ride right over all his hopes: the deluxe rod driven by a first-class heel who hated Dave's guts.

Here are all the bright colors and roaring thrills of the gunning, racing motors, the zing of competition, the excitement of sport...the heart-stopping peril of a crash...the nip-and-tuck finish! Life and death ride on the race - and the heart and spirit Dave can bring to it!

Wednesday 5 April 2017

Somebody In Boots - Nelson Algren

THE AUTHOR OF MAN WITH A GOLDEN ARM


MAYFLOWER DELL 8110
1ST PRINTING 1964
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO

Nelson Algren's SOMEBODY IN BOOTS is a great achievement in sustained realism. His hero, Cass McKay, in flight from the brutalities of a home he hated, wanders across America, jumping trains, trying to survive amidst the submerged tenth, finally, in the Chicago his author knows so well, fighting desperately for happiness with the girl he loved against all the savage chaos of an indifferent society.

Tuesday 4 April 2017

The Warriors - Sol Yurick

THEY ARE NEW YORK'S TOUGHEST STREET GANG.
COOL IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME.
FOR KEEPS IS HOW THEY PLAY IT.


DELL BOOKS 19074
2ND PRINTING MAY 1979
NEW YORK, USA
MOVIE TIE-IN

WERE THEY HEROES...OR PUNKS?

The Fourth of July dawned hot and ominous. The city was steaming-ready to go off like a string of firecrackers. The big rumble was on.

It would take Papa Arnold's Family far from their Brooklyn turf. Before the night was over they would have to fight their way home. They would seek out-and find-the city's dangers, its violence, its mysteries. They would rape and kill. But above all, they would stick together.

They were brothers. The Family was the only family they had.

THE WARRIORS

THE TERRIFYING MOVIE THRILLER YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!

Monday 3 April 2017

The Dog Star - Donald Windham

A COMPELLING Story of LOVE and VIOLENCE


SIGNET BOOKS 871
1ST PRINTING APRIL 1951
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY

Take Your Hands Off Me

"Shaking her as a dog shakes a tin can tied to its tail, he lurched toward the door. Only her utter annihilation would satisfy him....But she held onto his shirt and called his name....Cursing her again he swung his fist around and smashed it into her face."

Sunday 2 April 2017

Fever Heat - Angus Vicker

A Wild Breed of Men
Who Live at the Pace That Kills


DELL FIRST EDITION 13
FIRST PRINTING 1954
NEW YORK, USA
COVER ART BY CARL BOBERTZ

FLESH AND IRON

This is the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown to the iron of the souped-up heaps that are his whole life.

There's a woman named Sandy, who sees in Ace the same fever that burned out her husband, and the same wild attraction that made her love him.

And there's Sandy's brother-in-law, who respects Ace almost as deeply as he hates him.

Theirs is the special world of the stock-car racers-filled with the stench of burning rubber, the tearing shriek of metal against metal. But the fire inside them will be felt by anyone who has ever known the corroding urge to get ahead of the man in front...

Saturday 1 April 2017

It's Trad Dad - Macgregor Urquhart


DIGIT BOOKS (NO NUMBER)
FIRST PRINTING (NO DATE)
LONDON, UK
64 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
MOVIE TIE-IN