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WWJ - The Detroit News". The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert
by Miller, George E., editor; The Radio Staff of The Detroit News
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 missing chunks. Covers also abraded and flecked with soil, while the textblock is sound, clean and unmarked. An adequate reading copy. Laid in is a contemporary...
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$15.00
![Yours For Service. Lotta Miles. Kelly Springfield Tires. [Advertising Brochure]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/412/778/1501778412.0.b.jpg)
Yours For Service. Lotta Miles. Kelly Springfield Tires. [Advertising Brochure]
by Chalmers Motor Company
Color Lithograph. Very good condition. One 10" x 8-1/4" sheet folded once, with advertising on both sides. Advertising for the Chalmers Motor Company During World War I. -- Probably part of (or a cover of a brochure that had additional pages) as one can see where it was formerly stapled. -- Chalmers Motor Company was an American car company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. The company started in 1908 and continued producing high-end vehicles until 1923, when it merged with Maxwell forming the basis...
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$45.00
Don't Ask Me Who I Am
by Randall, Jr. James
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. Pamphlet. 16p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. African American poet.
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$15.00
Fifth Estate: Vol. 25, No. 1 (#334), Summer 1990
Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1990. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned, lightly edgeworn, small stain on front wrap, else very good condition. Articles on the 20 year anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton, Italian anarchists, and more.
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$15.00
Detroit Reporter: the black and white newspaper. Sept. 4, 1974
Detroit: Detroit Reporter, 1974. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, pages toned else very good condition. Includes an article incorrectly theorizing that Huey Newton, whose whereabouts were unknown at the time, had been killed by white "mafia types.
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$12.00
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Of Me I Sing [SIGNED COPY]
by Bingay, Malcolm W
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. The "Hometown Edition, Limited and Signed." Autobiography of long-time Detroit journalist who was editorial director at the Free Press that includes many personal recollections of the people and events in Detoit's great industrial expansion. Signed, limited edition. A few white spots along bottom of covers from old contact with the dust wrapper (which is no longer...
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$12.95
The serpent's gift
by Lee, Helen Elaine
New York: Atheneum, 1994. Hardcover. viii, 374p., signed by Lee on the title page, review copy with sheets laid in, first edition, dj. First novel by the Detroit born African American writer.
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$15.00
Five pennies for my heart & a nickel for your time
by Williams, Kennard L
Detroit: 1024 Publishing Company, 2002. [68p.], staplebound poetry chapbook, very good.
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$20.00
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Labor Notes [10 issues]
by Moody, Kim, director
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 on rear wraps, some toning, else generally very good condition.
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$17.00
Ts︡eli i metody anarkhizma Цели и методы анархизма
by Nettlau, Max
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.
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$35.00
Corporate medical monopoly, 16 - the Detroit News - The Home Newspaper, Friday, August 10, 1945
Detroit: Detroit Law Book Co, 1946. Staplebound. 96p., staplebound wraps, 3.75x8.75 inches; wraps mildly toned and a bit soiled, else in very good condition. Second edition, originally published by the Committee on Medical Matters of the Responsible Enterprise Association. Written to "[oppose] the monopoly sought by those who seem to control the American Medical Association.
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$200.00
The Fifth Estate: vol. 13, No. 7 (#295), Nov. 3, 1978
Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1978. Newspaper. 15p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned else very good condition. Articles on May '68, vice squad harassment of gay men, and more.
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$20.00
The Fifth Estate: vol. 15, No. 4 (#304), March 18, 1981
Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1981. Newspaper. 15p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned, lightly edgeworn, else very good condition.
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$20.00
HIT ON THE HOUSE: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery ***SIGNED COPY***
by Jackson, Jon A
N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. First edition, first printing, so stated. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Jackson at title page. "Back on the streets in top form is Detroit's soiled, yet sensitive Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen, whose last appearance was in the praised Grootka . Having rubbed out mobster Sid Sedlacek and his driver, hit man Hal Good is picked up as a possible witness and taken to jail while Mulheisen oversees the crime scene. A quick ID switch with a drunk in...
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$24.00
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[Small archive of News & Letters items from 1976]
Detroit: News and Letters, 1976. Ephemera. This small archive comprises one letter written and signed by Ron Brokemeyer, a 3 page official call for convention by the Resident Editorial Board, an advertisement for a new series, and a 6p. pamphlet of the Constitution and By-laws of News and Letters Committees. Constitution has minor pen notation on front, and most items maintain a light damp stain on top the left corner, the letter by Brokemeyer is a tear in one corner, otherwise all items are in very...
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$22.00
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If you want to work... Let's work together! Stop overtime! [handbill]
Detroit: Michigan Committee for Organizing the Unemployed, 1983. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good, printed both sides. The Committee appears to have been a local project of the National Organization for an American Revolution.
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$15.00
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Announcing: The formation of a labor union based on Christian principals [sic] (broadside)
Detroit: Workers Council for Social Justice, Incorporated; printed by Dearborn Daily Herald, 1937. Broadside. 12x18 inch broadside, folded into quarters, paper toned, short split at the center of the horizontal fold. "Coughlin" has been penciled in upper left corner. Promotion of a newly established Coughlinite union more favorable to Detroit's auto makers than the UAW. "It is evident that here in Michigan there is dire need for a labor union based upon Christian principles of social justice. It is...
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$125.00
Singing sadness happy: poems
by Lyn [Levy]
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. 32p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly soiled and toned else good first edition. Radical African American poet.
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$15.00
Detroit 1701-1976
by Moon, Elaine (editor)
Detriot: Detroit Bicentennial Commission. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. Softcover. Brief historical perspective on the city with biographies of a number of prominent Detroiters. Photos have captions. A bicentennial publication. Covers are glossy white printed wrappers. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 24 pages .
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$19.95
The Fifth Estate: vol. 12, #6 (#282), April-May 1977
Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1977. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned else very good condition. Includes an excerpt from an interview with Russ Little, Joe Remiro, and Bill and Emily Harris of the SLA.
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$20.00
Jewels of my younger years, volume 1, part 1
by Fields, John W
Lansing, MI: the author, 1964. 192p., printed black wraps with a neat line of tape residue along the spine, 'reinforcement' by former owner/institution or possibly as issued (regardless, the item seems sound enough with the tape absent). An ex library copy with withdrawn stamp. African American author. Poetry with a lot on Michigan & Detroit events and locations.
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$25.00
First annual report of the Public Review Board to the membership of the UAW, 1957-1958
by Public Review Board, UAW
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.
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$20.00
MUSICIANS, MOTOWN, AND MYSELF
Hunter, Joseph. Detroit: Global Sound Publications. 1996. Signed ("Best Wishes for Nancy.") Good+ condition: rubbing, edgewear, smudging. pp. [9], 1-135, a-i, [1], [6 (index)]. Autobiographical novel by an original Funk Brother and the band leader at Motown Records until 1964. Extremely scarce, only one copy in OCLC (Univ. of South Carolina).
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$275.00
Letterhead from John Sinclair's Rainbow Energies Corporation
by SINCLAIR, John
Rainbow Energies Corporation, Detroit Description: 8 1/2 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). Offset on 25% cotton fiber paper. Tiny chip missing from lower-left corner, fading to edges, tiny dark spot on upper right. Comments: One sheet of letterhead from the Rainbow Energies Corporation, the successor to John Sinclair's Detroit Artists Workshop and Trans-Love Energies.
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$40.00
