[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

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

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

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

Detroit: United Auto Workers, 1984. Single issue in original staple-bound wrappers. 12mo (17cm); 24cm. Corner-creasing and mild external wear; Very Good. Single issue of the bi-monthly organ of the UAW, the entire issue devoted to the question: "Why Are U.S. Troops in Central America?" Takes a highly critical view of..... More