[Detroit]: Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court, 1935. First Edition. Successful defense speech by labor attorney Maurice Sugar, best known for serving as General Counsel to the United Auto Workers Union, 1937-1946. In 1934, James Victory, an African-American WW1 veteran and car washer was accused of slashing..... More

Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More

Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper, produced (briefly, we assume) by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government, the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker, suggesting the..... More

London: Dalton Watson Ltd., 1978. Revised Edition. A magnificent photographic tribute to Rolls-Royce motor cars built between 1907-1939, and to the 55 different Coachbuilding companies whose craft is so fully illustrated. Considered to be the standard reference book on Rolls-Royce coachwork. Small quarto (25cm); black leatherette, with titles stamped in..... 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

Detroit: Black Star Printing, [1970?]. Offprint from Leviathan Vol.2, No.2 (June, 1970), containing "The Midwest and the League" by Jim Jacobs, and "An Interview with Ken Cockrel and Mike Hamlin of The League of Revolutionary Black Workers." Slim octavo (21.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 38pp. A Fine copy. More

Ann Arbor: Radical Education Project, 1967. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Tan staple-bound, mimeographed sheets; [34pp]. Just About Fine. Reprints Linder's article which originally appeared in the journal Progressive Labor, Feb/Mar 1967. More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket, purple topstain; [6],374pp. Some general shelf wear, minor insect damage at bottom half inch of front jacket flap fold, some very light spotting and dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon novel..... 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: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Second Edition. Uncommon work by a student of George Henry's, whose influence would lead a group of twenty-eight single-tax disciples from Des Moines, Iowa, to found the Fairhope Industrial Association on Mobile Bay in Alabama in 1893. The Association, where Paton resided at the time..... More

[Detroit: UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department; ca 1952]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 24pp. Very Good, free of markings or significant wear. Review of fair employment practices at the federal, state, and municipal level. At this time (ca 1952, dated from contents) only nine U.S. states and..... More