Singing sadness happy: poems
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly soiled and toned else good first edition. Radical African American poet. More
Cat.No: 20427
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly soiled and toned else good first edition. Radical African American poet. More
Cat.No: 20427
Detroit: Herman and Ben Marks, Manufacturing Furriers, 1926. Pamphlet. 32p., every page features b&w exhibit photography (commonly displaying four coats modeled full-length on young women), reproduced and captioned on glazed alkaline paperstock. Softbound, a decorated pamphlet in 10x9 inch stapled wraps. Intact, but very handled, with extensive crimping to all..... More
Cat.No: 250843
Philadelphia: Ware Bros. Company Publishers, 1931-33. Pamphlet. Three items together. The 1931 item is textual only; it runs 131 pages. Main supplement: 48p., no illustrations, not even diagrams; the math, geometry and procedures are strictly in a running text. The "supplement to the supplement" supplies the stand-alone formulae and the..... More
Cat.No: 314608
Detroit: The Evening News Association, 1922. Hardcover. 95p., profusely illustrated in b&w with an abundance of site (newsroom interiors & equipment) and portrait photography, and many diagrams, large & small. Small hardbound in tobacco-brown boards titled brown, quite worn with a ruined spine panel having splits along both joints and..... More
Cat.No: 313181
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 2016. Magazine. Ten issues of the newsletter, spanning the period from January to December 2016. Issues present are Numbers 442-445 and 447-453, missing May issue, Nos. 446 and 447. 15p. each, 8x10.75 inches, stapled wraps, newsprint; all with worn wraps and address printed..... More
Cat.No: 257189
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 2017. Magazine. Eleven issues of the newsletter for 2017. Issues present are Nos. 454-464; 15p. each, 8x10.75 inches, stapled wraps, newsprint; all with worn wraps and address printed on rear wraps, some toning, else generally very good condition. More
Cat.No: 257190
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 1997. Newsletter. Twelve issues of the newsletter, Issues present are Numbers 214-225. 15p. each, 8 x 10.75 inches, stapled wraps, newsprint; all with worn wraps and address labels on rear wraps, some toning, else generally very good condition. More
Cat.No: 243601
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 2012. Magazine. Twelve issues of the newsletter, a complete run for the year 2012. Issues present are Numbers 394-405. 15p. each, 8x10.75 inches, stapled wraps, newsprint; all with worn wraps and address printed on rear wraps, some toning, else generally very good condition..... More
Cat.No: 257188
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 1983-2022. Magazine. Four hundred and fifty four issues of the monthly periodical, 8x10.75 inches, spanning 39 consecutive years, of which 26 year-long runs are complete, no years have less than 9 issues; stapled wraps on newsprint, throughout some minor soil, minor handling and..... More
Cat.No: 296489
Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 1989-2000. Magazine. 117 issues of the newsletter, spanning between July 1989 and August 2000. Most have faintly worn and soiled wraps, address labels on rear wrap, many have light toning, #137 has the bottom corner of the rear wrap torn off with some..... More
Cat.No: 231496
Detroit: NOAR, 1985. 4p. newsletter published by the local NOAR branch, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Includes discussion of the Fighting Grannies, and Detroiters for Dignity. NOAR was founded by James and Grace Lee Boggs. More
Cat.No: 261264
Detroit: Profsoyuz, 1951. Hardcover. 397p., very good hardcover, though some smudging to endpapers; text in Russian. "Outline of the history of ideas of anarchy, and other articles on various subjects." By one of the foremost historians of anarchism. More
Cat.No: 257576
Detroit: Profsoyuz, 1951. Paperback. 397p., paperback, minor shelfwear, very good; text in Russian. "Outline of the history of ideas of anarchy, and other articles on various subjects." By one of the foremost historians of anarchism. More
Cat.No: 257581
Detroit: Federat︠s︡ii Rabochikh Soi︠u︡zov bezvlastnikov Soedinennykh Shtatov i Kanady, 1934. 48p., staplebound booklet, very good. Text in Russian. "Aims and methods of anarchism." The first printing of this essay by the most important historian of anarchism. More
Cat.No: 257237
Detroit: Federat︠s︡ii Rabochikh Soi︠u︡zov bezvlastnikov Soedinennykh Shtatov i Kanady, 1934. 48p., staplebound booklet, cover splitting at the spinefold. Text in Russian. "Aims and methods of anarchism." The first printing of this essay by the most important historian of anarchism. More
Cat.No: 258574
Detroit: Federat︠s︡ii Rabochikh Soi︠u︡zov bezvlastnikov Soedinennykh Shtatov i Kanady, 1934. 48p., staplebound booklet, evenly toned, short closed edge tear, otherwise very good. Text in Russian. "Aims and methods of anarchism." The first printing of this essay by the most important historian of anarchism. More
Cat.No: 260017
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Hardcover. xix, 263p., b&w photos. very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. The Working Class in American History Series. More
Cat.No: 10637
Lucca: Fondazione Paolo Cresci, 2006. Paperback. 170p., illustrated in the lengthy terminal section with a profusion of period snapshot/studio photographs (dressing up in wooly chaps & gaucho gear, &c), a smartly produced softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Northern California was one destination; some wound up in Truckee! Nice copy..... More
Cat.No: 311626
Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1967. Newspaper. 12p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, very worn and chipped especially at folds, toned newsprint. Fragile. Cover story: Interview with Beatle George Harrison. Also: Hippies Confront New Left at Old Left Conference, a report on the conflict between..... More
Cat.No: 301198
Detroit, MI: Black & Red Books, 2002. Pamphlet. 24p., 5.25x8.5 inches, illus., stapled pamphlet with glossy pictorial wraps, very good. First published in 1969. More
Cat.No: 236536
Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1966. Paperback. 268p. Text entirely in French. The first trade edition, preceding the US and UK release. Browning to spine. Covers a bit soiled. The Detroit-born African American author's first book: "A French publisher encouraged her to write The Flagellants which has the rare distinction of..... More
Cat.No: 197803
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Hardcover. 214p., first UK edition, unclipped dust jacket, slightly worn spine else very good condition. Detroit born African American author. Tempestuous novel of African American romance in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. More
Cat.No: 197804
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Hardcover. 214p., first UK edition, very good condition in like unclipped dust jacket. Detroit born African American author. Tempestuous novel of African American romance in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. More
Cat.No: 312108
Detroit: UAW, 1958. 23p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Report by the body charged with ensuring democratic procedure in the union and prevention of corruption. Gives brief synopsis of numerous cases that were addressed. Describes the union as free of corruption. More
Cat.No: 211249
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1882. Hardcover. 300p., first edition, illustrated with 11 fullpage wood engravings of urban and country African American life; these stylized and quite capable, if stereotyped. Minor edgewear. no DJ. Dialect novel set in Detroit's black community, by a European American author. For a change of..... More
Cat.No: 55113