[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 about A Negro on Trial for His Life: The Frame-Up of James Victory Exposed! Speech to Jury by Counsel...

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 about Broadside - Vote Communist Against Hunger, Wage Cuts, Fascism & War!

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 about Muskegon Worker. Issued Monthly by the "Unemployed Council". Vol.1, No. 1 and Vol.1, No. 2

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Biography of Walter Reuther (1907-1970), a significant union leader with the United Auto Workers and AFL-CIO. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [viii],280pp. With a contemporary inscription by the author on the front endpaper: "November, 1958... More about Walter Reuther: The Autocrat of the Bargaining Table [Inscribed

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm); maroon cloth boards with paper spine and cover labels; dustjacket; portrait frontispiece; 272pp. Mild lean to spine; spine lable a shade age-darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with mild overall... More about Men and Rubber: the Story of Business

New York: The Dryden Press, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Analysis of the 1943 Detroit Race Riots, with detailed descriptions and chronology of events. The authors were both professors of Sociology at Wayne State University. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,143,[5]pp. Light... More about Race Riot

New York: Blue Heron Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. Brown cloth; dustjacket; 63pp. Tiny scuff to base of front board; spine ends lightly rubbed; a tight, Near Fine copy in the original Rockwell Kent dustwrapper, toned on spine and with a few nicks to extremities; Very Good. Prospectus laid in... More about Sonnets of Love and Liberty (Inscribed to Bob Travis

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 about Cover title] Summary of Conference on "Human Relations" for United Auto Workers - AFL...

Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, [1937]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; [2],119pp.; text in double column. Spine cocked, wrapper rectos fading and extremities foxed and a bit worn; contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. About Very Good. Fictional account of the rise... More about The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America

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 about On the Line