[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

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

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

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, [1937]. Revised Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illus. throughout, printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page, else Near Fine. 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: 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