Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 631

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

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back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,

they will anger you,

they will make you wonder

...and they will scare

the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 

of teen-age hoods and tramps

who infest our streets

and schools, terrorize out towns

and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle

College Confidential - Irving Shulman

A hotbed of scandal erupts on campus when a professor surveys his students' private lives

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 517

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2/6

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WAS HIS SURVEY STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC?

DID THE PROFESSOR USE HIS OWN APARTMENT TO "STUDY" THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HIS STUDENTS?

COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL

A novel by Irving Shulman

Based on the screenplay Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith

A Famous Players Corp. Picture

Released by Universal-International

Starring STEVE ALLEN, JAYNE MEADOWS, WALTER WINCHELL and MAMIE VAN DOREN

 

Exterminator - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: o 552 10222 9

Publishing Year: 1976

Printing: First

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In dingy hotel rooms, in public places, in ordinary peoples' houses, the exterminator goes about his business: his quarry is vermin, the vermin of society. . .

Moving in space and time between the society we know, and the edge of another galaxy light years away, this savage study of violence, hypocrisy and the abuse of power is at once tragic and comic, satirical and pathetic. William Burroughs has created an incredible nightmare world, peopled by junkies, pimps, quack doctors and green adolescents - weird and disturbing characters like the Lemon Kid, basic J. Audrey the homosexual. . .and the EXTERMINATOR himself. . .

The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs

A Book of the Dead

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 09396 3

Publishing Year: 1973

Printing: First

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The year is 1988. Adolescent guerilla packs of specialised humanoids are routing the forces of civilised nations and ravaging the earth. From their small beginnings in 1969 as petrol gangs, dousing their victims with petrol and setting them on fire for kicks, they have grown to an army, dedicated to violence and death. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys, hordes of pitiless homosexual warriors who move in and destroy the cities - until civilisation collapses, revealing a future of horrifying dimensions. . .

The Ticket That Exploded - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 08617 7

Publishing Year: 1971

Printing: First

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THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED

utilises William Burroughs's now famous fold-in-method to give a fragmented and many-sided vision of modern reality. The result is at once an original work of fiction, an intensely poetical novel and a political and morale fable. the author's preoccupation is with the plethora of forces in the world that attempt to excercise 'conrol', and his fantastic imagination once again weaves extraordinary images and ideas into a world that is both personal and universal.

The authoR of THE NAKED LUNCH and THE SOFT MACHINE has now written a book that will take its place among the classics of our time.

The Soft Machine - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 08465 4

Publishing Year: 1970

Printing: First

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THE SOFT MACHINE

is the immediate successor to 'The Naked Lunch', a book which has, in a short time, established itself as one of the key works of post-war literature.

The author's principal preoccupations are still the juxtaposition of good and evil, human passion and sensuality and the power of the machine, the struggle of conflicting forces to control human environment; and with the awareness that nightmares have their counterparts in real life.

This is not a book for the casual reader; nor is it for the squeamish. the serious reader, however, will find a technical mastery, a courage with experimentation and a scientific eye for the new literary research that is unparalleled in modern writing.

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 07938 3

Publishing Year: 1968

Printing: First

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THE NAKED LUNCH

"EXTRAORDINARY AND DEVASTATING,

FUNNY AND TERRIBLE,

HORRIBLE AND HAUNTING.

Like Genet turned into a Marx Brothers script, this is the real journey to the end of the night, a Big Dipper ride through the black underworld of the human soul.

To read it, it's like Ulysses put through a speeded-up projector onto a distorted cinema screen. It is a gruesome, tormented and a chillingly pessimistic view of the universe. But that is where Burroughs dwelt during the time of his addiction."

Kenneth Allsop - Daily Mail

"Mr. Burroughs joins a small body of writers who are willing to look at hell and report what they see.

I can think of only one other writer with whom he can be compared: Jonathan Swift. It demands to be read."

Anthony Burgess - The Guardian

"A furious apocalypse, splendid and exasperating."

The Sunday Times