Pleasure Island (1966)

PleasureIsland1966cvrA thumbnail
30135797703-signet-books-d2892-adam-shaw-pleasure-island thumbnail
PleasureIsland1966cvrA
30135797703-signet-books-d2892-adam-shaw-pleasure-island

It was a paradise of passion where women were seductive innocents. The Yankee sailors came to prey on British shipping. They stayed — willing captives to wanton pleasure…

Not related to the 1950 book of the same name.

Original artwork courtesy of its owner, Taneleer Tivan. Cover via

Sin Beach

pb-816-sin-beach-by-andrew-shole-eb thumbnail
Pillar Book PR 816, 1963 thumbnail
pb-816-sin-beach-by-andrew-shole-eb
Pillar Book PR 816, 1963

Passion Ruled This — Sin Beach

From the back:

SIN AND SAND… 
They were the bare—the very bare—essentials of the simple life as lived on Fire Island . . . where all inhibitions were drowned in the frothy, flesh-filled surf of unleashed desire! Dick Marron fled there to escape the passion-pods of Greenwich Village . . and found every enticement to evil the beatnik Eden had to offer matched and bettered by the completely unchained inducements to sin dreamed up by Islanders with nothing to do but spend their twisted desires and renew their torrid energies on the beach … on the sand . . . by the sea of sin . . .

via via