New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and burgundy cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,312pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "6/94 / To: Robert / Your energy + determination..... More

New York: Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Fine condition. Typed letter signed by Harry A. Williams, Managing Editor of the Association, dated September 30, 1965, addressed to Garth L. Mangum of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress. More

New York: John Day Company, [1946]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[3],297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none quite touching text, spine very slighty toned, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall..... More

[Dearborn, MI]: Henry Ford Trade School, [1934]. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illustrated throughout. Printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities, spine faded, front corner bumped, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page, else Very Good or better. With a promotional..... More

Champaign, IL: University of Illinois / Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1949. First Edition. Early-ish conference inspired by the Human Relations movement of the early 1930s. The event was co-organized by the UAW and the University's Institute of Labor with "emphasis...placed on some of the psychological factors involved in..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry, written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee, Paul Jordan-Smith (1885-1971), was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of..... More

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original two-toned (yellow and grey) simulated cloth in blue, white, and grey decorative dust jacket; [6],233pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and chipping, some foxing along folds, else Very..... More

Washington DC: Bureau of National Affairs, [1953 or 1954]. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 931-951pp. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Very Good and sound. "Reprinted from Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts" (upper cover). More

Detroit, Michigan: Talbot Books, 1947. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publsiher's grey cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 236pp. Strong and tight, spine gilt dulled, a little wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, inscribed to front flyleaf, original promotional ephemera laid in at the front. A...... More