[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
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket. 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
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
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
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: 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
Ann Arbor: Radical Education Project, 1967. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Pink staple-bound, mimeographed sheets; [34pp]. Light soil and wear; possibly lacking rear wrapper (but text complete, including references); Very Good. Reprints Linder's article which originally appeared in the journal Progressive Labor, Feb/Mar 1967. 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: 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
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
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
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
London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 347pp. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in the original unclipped dustwrapper by Ionicus, just lightly toned at extremities, Near Fine. Unusually attractive copy of Williams's second novel, set among Welsh workers in a British car factory. The second volume... More
