The Cool World

1960 Crest (Fawcett) S386

From the listing:

First published in 1959, The Cool World is the most famous of Warren Miller’s work (all of which is relatively unknown) about a youth gang called the “Crocodiles” in 1950’s Harlem, New York City. Narrated in the first person by the protagonist and Crocodile member Duke, The Cool World recounts the story of Duke and his gang’s adventures and travails as they deal with street life in the ghetto and a rival gang called the Wolves. Drug dealing, fights, prostitution, guns, and gambling are rampant throughout this engaging, slim novel that rarely has a dull moment. Written entirely in African-American street vernacular of the time, Miller—a caucasian academic—accomplished a great, and mostly unnoticed, linguistic and narrative feat with this novel.

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Queer Patterns

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A Delicate Theme, Treated Honestly and Candidly

Also, lots and lots of steamy lesbian sex scenes.

From the back:

Here is a much-needed book which examines straight-forwardly the dramatic problem of women involved too intimately in one another’s lives — a powerful novel of a little known social menace. Read this book, and gain an enlightened understanding of the lost women whose strange urges produce one of the great problems of modern society.

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The Fire That Burns

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Girls Who Pose For Anything

From the back:

The Female Form Divine was Pat Mulroney’s specialty. He was one of the best glamor photographers in the business. Then he met the depraved and voluptuous Nell, who took her pleasures in many strange ways. She introduced him to such people as

TONY, the fantastically stacked stripper who really didn’t like boys…


MATTA, the beautiful shy girl who lost her shyness in front of Pat’s camera…


JANEY, Nell’s lovely daughter, and her mother’s closest rival for Pat’s love…

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