Title: Return to Lesbos (MIDWOOD TOWER F329)
Author: Valerie Taylor
Artist: Photo
Year: 1963
“A haunting story of a beautiful and mature woman, trapped in a web of her own making, drawn back to the world she had married to escape…her struggle with a physical hunger condemned by society even in this free-living and free-loving age.”
Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana
Title: I Am a Woman in Love with a Woman (Beebo Brinker) (Gold Medal Giant d833)
Author: Ann Bannon
Artist: Photo
Year: 1959
“Home to Laura was a dimly lit and badly ventilated bar on a back street in Greenwich Village. She understood the language there, she understood the customs. Only forbidden desires were recognized and love rarely lasted longer than a night. The tormented and lost women met there, and Laura, slim and boyish, found happiness for the first time in her life.”
Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana
Title: The Hours of Rapture (DOMINO 82-108)
Author: Sheldon Lord
Artist: Photo
Year: 1966
“When husband and wife both wander, the result is something new in sin. . . . Lola’s desperate desires made her seek fulfillment in strange new directions”
Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana
Title: The Wasted Years (Hillman 50-109)
Author: Jess Stearn
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1961
“You read about it in your newspaper but WHY did a pretty Texas teenager kill her brother ‘just for kicks’? WHY did a 17-year-old say, ‘I wanted to see how it felt for knife to dig into bone’? WHY did a clean-cut youth stomp a total stranger to death because he didn’t like the tune he was humming?”
Categories: Hot Rods and Delinquents
Title: The Very First Time (Dell D349)
Author: Richard Fisher
Artist: Mitchell Hooks
Year: 1960
“A shocking portrait of today’s crazy mixed-up kids–trying love, trying life for THE VERY FIRST TIME”
Categories: Hot Rods and Delinquents
Title: Run, Chico, Run (Gold Medal Giant S1042)
Author: Wenzell Brown
Artist: Barye Phillips
Year: 1953
“Spanish Harlem, a no man’s land in neon, where the kids are weaned on reefers, lead pipes and gang wars.”
Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Hot Rods and Delinquents
Title: Cry Baby Killer (Movie tie-in) (Avon T-230)
Author: Joseph Hilton
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1958
“A tough new novel of juvenile delinquency with photos from the powerful motion picture.” (starring Jack Nicholson)
Categories: Hot Rods and Delinquents
Title: Sex Gang (NIGHTSTAND NB 1503)
Author: Paul Merchant (pseudonym of Harlan Ellison)
Artist: Unknown (likely W. H. McCauley)
Year: 1959
“Lust in the big-city jungles. . . Violent stories of naked passions.”
Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Hot Rods and Delinquents
Title: Sex Dagger (STARDUST READER SR 104)
Author: Vince Clements
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1965
“Sizzler of sin. Scorched as it lay bare to make this sine even more evil. . . . She used every weird interplay of truth and falsehood to get her way. And she left her lovers with…violated passions.”
Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Kink and Fetish, Lesbians and Lesbiana
Title: Sin Chained (Leisure LB 624)
Author: Clyde Allison (pseudonym of William Knoles)
Artist: Robert Bonfils (?)
Year: 1964
Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Kink and Fetish
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