Welcome to Cutting Edge Books

There are hundreds of great, cutting edge mysteries, westerns, thrillers, and literary fiction novels that were published between the 1940s and 1970s that have been out-of-print for decades, lost to generations of readers who either never knew those books even existed… or aren’t willing to slog through used bookstores to find tattered copies. Or, in some cases, the books have become so rare, only collectors can afford to own copies. We’re changing that. We’re publishing new, outrageously affordable digital and trade paperback editions of these long-lost, forgotten, and rare books that even today, are still on the cutting edge of their genres. But that’s not all. We’re also publishing selected non-fiction classics as well as some new, never-before-published titles. Whether the books are reprints or brand-new, our titles all share one thing in common—they are all fantastic, boundary-pushing stories that will entertain, thrill, shock, captivate and excite you.

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Author The Wife Swappers

The Wife Swappers By Bonnie Golightly

The daring, classic pulp novel of suburban adultery by Bonnie Golightly, famed author of Beat Girl and The Wild One, back in print for the first time in over sixty years.

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Author Party Wives

Party Wives By Jim Layne/Joseph L. Chadwick

In the early 1950s, suburbia was booming... and, along with it, a unique genre of novels about lust and wife-swapping in the cul-de-sacs. Party Wives was a classic of the salacious genre, and is now finally back in print. 

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Author Three Sheet

Three Sheet By Tiffany Thayer

The daring, long-lost classic by Tiffany Thayer, back in print after nearly 100 years...a novel that is "diabolically clever, daring and revealing. The crude and cruel power which has made Tiffany Thayer's novels famous was never more apparent than in Three Sheet." Lewiston Daily Sun

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Author Fire in the Flesh

Fire in the Flesh By Jack Sheridan

Jack Sheridan's pulp-noir classic, back in print for the first time in over sixty years.  "Sheridan seems to be aiming at, and achieving, something higher and more powerful than just an entertaining story." New York World-Telegram

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Author The Shades of Evil

The Shades of Evil By Bonnie Golightly

A lesbian pulp-fiction classic, set in the decadent, torrid South, with barely-controlled, forbidden desires beneath its proper, rigid, and cultured veneer, back in print for the first time in over sixty years. “This one is as important to the male audience as the female and is, incidentally, an excellent mystery.” Tangents Magazine

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Author The Only Game in Town

The Only Game in Town By Charles Einstein

One of the all-time classic baseball novels is finally back-in-print after sixty years. It's a story that only Charles Einstein, the sports writer beloved by millions in the 1950s and the biographer of Willie Mays, could have told.

Stat Hunter is the manager of a minor league baseball team who is struggling to keep his life and his players together. His wife has left him, he's being threatened by a blackmailer with secrets from his past, and his most promising player is being pressured by gamblers. He knows he should walk away from it all...but he can't. Because the only thing he's ever wanted, the only thing he could ever really do, and the only thing in the whole damn world worth caring about, is baseball.

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Author The Glorious Three

The Glorious Three By June Wetherell


"It has the unmistakable dignity of art. Very few historical novels can make that statement." New York Times

Emily Ashburn lost her husband and children to cholera on the brutal journey west on the Oregon trail. In her grief and loneliness, she marries strong, silent Jim Riley, a man with a murderous secret. Now the couple are making a life for themselves in the wilderness. But they aren't alone. There's also frontiersman Zack Trimble and Mariposa, his hot-blooded, half-Indian, teenage lover. The lives of these two couples become intertwined as they struggle for survival against native Americans, warring settlers, the ravages of nature, and their own, uncontrollable passions.

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Author The Henry Lewis Nixon Reader: Three Full Novels

The Henry Lewis Nixon Reader: Three Full Novels By Henry Lewis Nixon

Three scandalous, passionate, daring novels by Henry Lewis Nixon.

THE BAWDY MRS. GREY * SHIP'S DOCTOR * NAKED DESIRE

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Author The Valley of Dry Bones

The Valley of Dry Bones By Arthur Henry Gooden

"Here is a grand western in the best roaring action tradition." Omaha World Herald

When Ross Chaine was a boy, his father was murdered, their ranch was lost, and he was sent off to live with his Aunt. But now he's a man, and he's returned to the Valley of Dry Bones to claim his birthright...and see that justice is finally done.

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Author Wagon Train Westerns: Four Full Novels

Wagon Train Westerns: Four Full Novels By Bart Spicer/Irwin Blacker/James Warner Bellah/L.L. Foreman

Four epic western novels about wagon trains traveling across the country... and the desperate settlers who battle nature, disease, and violence in their quest for a fresh start.

THE WILD OHIO by Bart Spicer
WESTERING by Irwin R. Blacker
ARROW IN THE DUST by L.L. Foreman
REAR GUARD by James Warner Bellah

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