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Author:	David Derek Stacton as Bud Clifton
Title:	The Power Gods
English Title:	Road Kids
Publisher:	Eyre & Spottiswoode
Country:	UK
Date:	Dec 1958
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Crime, Society
Total Editions:	2
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ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Review ''nevada's equivalent of our own (by comparison) rather disarmingly decent and dandy-ish teddy-boys are motor-bicycle-borne adolescent hoodlums who, in this book, are led by a tiger of a golden-haired girl into armed robbery and a killing or so. extremely exciting, with something of a documentary quality about its presentation of life in the western-desert jet-set.'' - the spectator 26/12/1958 - this appears to be a crime & violence (with a little bit of sex) ''gangsploitation'' novel 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 31st Jan 2023		eyre & spottiswoode h/cvr first printing, believed first edition° (possibly first uk edition) aka ''road kids'' (transworld, uk p/b 1960) cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 12s. 6d. ° - presuming pyramid books mmpb first printing dated january 1959 is the first merkin edition



ppint. 31st Jan 2023		transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition aka and originally ''the power gods'' (1958), q.v. cover art by john richards (signed richards, likely uncredited) cover price 2'6 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



MICKDOOM67 28th Jan 2021		Cover art by 'Richards' (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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David Derek Stacton - Road Kids - Corgi - Paperback - UK (1960)