Auto Industry / UAW from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Dearborn, MI]: Henry Ford Trade School, [1934]. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illustrated throughout. Printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities, spine faded, front corner bumped, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page, else Very Good or better. With a promotional booklet for the Henry Ford Trade School, a… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, [1967]. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Tan staple-bound, mimeographed sheets; [34pp]. Mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Offprint of an article which originally appeared in Progressive Labor, Feb/Mar 1967. There was also a Radical Education Project issue the same year, probably subsequent to this.

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).

N.p.: United Auto Workers - Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1951. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green staplebound card wrappers printed in double rule; 27pp.; illus. A hint of toning else Fine. Uncommon: Cornell only in OCLC as of June, 2020.

Washington DC: United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); disbound (as issued) pictorial self-wrappers; 7pp.; illus., text in double columns. Previous mail folds, rear cover postally used, wrappers rather unevenly toned, else Very Good overall. Chiefly devoted to the 1976 presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

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.

Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. 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 / For Mr. Fee, remembering the old days at Mountain Lakes. Eldorous L. "Pete" Dayton." Fine in a Very Good+ to Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped,… Read more about this item

Champaign, IL: University of Illinois / Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1949. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue mimeographed staplebound wrappers; [1],14ll. printed from typescript on rectos only. Spine edge very slightly sunned, else Near Fine. 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… Read more about this item

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. Important work on the business and managerial structure of… Read more about this item

New York: The Dryden Press, Inc, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,143,[5]pp. Light wear to extremities, previous owners name and small notation X-ed out in marker on front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), edgeworn, with losses to spine ends, corners, and upper edge, with… Read more about this item

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 about Harry Pickering, the heir to an automobile empire.… Read more about this item

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 Good and sound. Interrelated stories about nine men who… Read more about this item

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards, with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn;… Read more about this item