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Motown Underground

Motown Underground

by Doug Allyn

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Emergence and Growth Of an Urban Region

by Constantinos A Doxiadis

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Motown Underground

Motown Underground

by Allyn, Doug

Les Flagellants

Les Flagellants

by Polite, Carlene

A Detroit Anthology

A Detroit Anthology

by Clark, Anna

Belt Publishing. Fine. 2014. First Edition :. Softcover. 0985944145 . Octovo in wraps, prior owner inscription, tight unread, slight flare of covers, else FINE. Many authors tell of Detroit. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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£9.61
Michigan Free Press: People's independent newsweekly [4 issues]

Michigan Free Press: People's independent newsweekly [4 issues]

by dePue, George, et al., editorial collective

Ann Arbor: Michigan Free Press, 1975. Newspaper. Four issues, various pagination, issues 71 & 77 are standard tabloid size folded in half, issues 79 & 80 are printed on broadsheet newsprint folded in quarters, edges torn and creased, No. 71 has red ink crossing out the price and circled around some of the lettering, No. 79 top edge creased and torn, subscription label affixed to cover wrap, small stickers used to keep he paper closed are on the vertical edge of each issue, readable copies. Issues... Read more about this item
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£28.03
Advance Fur Fashions 1926-1927. Wholesale Catalog

Advance Fur Fashions 1926-1927. Wholesale Catalog

by Marks, Herman and Ben

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 leaves; we see no tears or marked-up areas, and no out-and-out grime. Staples very slightly touched with rust. A good (good-only) copy. Laid in... Read more about this item
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£40.04
Ramparts: vol. 7, #2, August 10, 1968

Ramparts: vol. 7, #2, August 10, 1968

by Hinckle, Warren III, Editorial Director

San Francisco: Ramparts Magazine, Inc, 1968. Magazine. 78p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, staples rusted, wraps lightly worn, address label on front wrap, else very good condition. Includes an extended extract from John Hersey's The Algiers Motel Incident on the killing of three black teenagers by police during the Detroit riots, plus articles on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, the Vietnam war, pornographic publisher Maurice Girodias, and Janis Joplin, a review of Bertrand Russell's... Read more about this item
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£16.02
Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1968

Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1968

by Van Newkirk, Allen

Detroit: Van Newkirk, 1968. Broadside. 16 x 22.25 inch broadside, minor foxing and toning, generally very good. One side functions as a poster for Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 run for US President, while the other has the text of the Black Panther Party's platform and program, with quotes from the writings of Andre Breton, Robert Duncan, Dave Sinclair, Murray Bookchin, and Eldridge Cleaver. Guerrilla was published by Allen Van Newkirk in Detroit from 1967-1968. Van Newkirk, who was connected with the White... Read more about this item
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£240.24
Overturn the Reagan program of cutbacks, racism and war. The people will do it [poster]

Overturn the Reagan program of cutbacks, racism and war. The people will do it [poster]

Washington DC: All-People's Congress, 1981. 11x17.5 inch poster, Spanish version on the other side, on toned newsprint; one upper corner about to chip. Announcement of a convention in Detroit to plan a National Day of resistance.
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£36.04
Trial and error; the Detroit school segregation case

Trial and error; the Detroit school segregation case

by Wolf, Eleanor P

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. Hardcover. 372p., first printing. casebinding yawns considerably, fading along spine of dj.
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£16.02
[Two handbills from the Job is a Right Campaign]

[Two handbills from the Job is a Right Campaign]

Detroit: Job is a Right Campaign, 1987. Handbill. Two 8.5x11 inch handbills; in very good condition. Calls for a moratorium on plant closings and layoffs.
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£12.01
Echoes of Detroit: a 300 Year History

Echoes of Detroit: a 300 Year History

by Cohen, Irwin J

City Vision Publishing. Fine. 2000. First Edition :. Softcover. Quarto in wraps, unworn, unread, faint flare, else FINE, Signed on title page by author. Illustrated. Traces selected history through centuries. Many old photos. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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£23.22
Lewis urges action on labor's "bread and butter" task: The text of President Lewis' main address at the Ford Local 600 anniversary celebration Detroit, Mich., June 23, 1951

Lewis urges action on labor's "bread and butter" task: The text of President Lewis' main address at the Ford Local 600 anniversary celebration Detroit, Mich., June 23, 1951

by Lewis, John L

[Detroit]: [UAW Local 600], 1951. Pamphlet. 14p., stapled wraps, front wrap foxed along top edge else very good condition, 5x7.5 inches. Cover title: Auto rank and file hail "Mr. Organized Labor.
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£20.02
Pituitrin (Pituitary Extract)

Pituitrin (Pituitary Extract)

by Kehrer, Dr., et alia. Parke Davis Co., corporate compiler

Detroit MI: Parke, Davis & Co, 1913. 40p., high-gloss alkaline paperstock, softbound, a small stapled pamphlet in 6.5x4.5 inch dun wraps printed sepia letterpress. Covers show mildest crimping along spinefold, in all other respects fine: completely sound, clean and unmarked. Text is comprised of an eight-page Parke Davis intro followed by numerous excerpts of medical literature, many from the years 1908 thru 1912.
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£16.02
New University Thought; vol. 7, no. 1 (May-June 1969) From the people who brought you Vietnam: the anti-ballistic missile system

New University Thought; vol. 7, no. 1 (May-June 1969) From the people who brought you Vietnam: the anti-ballistic missile system

Detroit: New University Thought, 1969. Magazine. 20p., staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., slight toning on covers, light coffee ring on back wrap, else very good.
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£9.61
Palestinian Human Rights and the American People [handbill]

Palestinian Human Rights and the American People [handbill]

Detroit: Palestinian Human Rights Committee, [198-]. Handbill. 14x8.5 inch flyer, vertical fold crease, otherwise very good. Announces an event at Wayne State University.
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£9.61
Ts︡eli i metody anarkhizma Цели и методы анархизма

Ts︡eli i metody anarkhizma Цели и методы анархизма

by Nettlau, Max

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.
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£48.05
Race and place; race relations in an American city

Race and place; race relations in an American city

by Welch, Susan, et. al

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover. xvi, 206p., review slip taped to front pastedown. Study of Detroit and its suburbs.
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£24.02
Proceedings, special collective bargaining convention. Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, April 27-29, 1961

Proceedings, special collective bargaining convention. Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, April 27-29, 1961

by International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Detroit: UAW, 1962. Paperback. x, 287p., wraps, light handling wear, small crayon mark on front wrap, else very good condition.
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£16.02
Fifth Estate: Special Edition, Spring 1990

Fifth Estate: Special Edition, Spring 1990

Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1990. Newspaper. 8p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned, lightly edgeworn, else very good condition. Special issue for Earth Day, critiquing liberal environmentalists.
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£12.01
Labor Notes [11 issues]

Labor Notes [11 issues]

by Moody, Kim, director

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.
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£13.61
The Star Toy Maker. Plans and Instructions for Scores of Novel Devices [cover titling]. Aka: Plans and directions for making all sorts of clever and original toys, telephones, kites, cameras, wind mills, railroads, etc. Illustrated from new special drawings; any boy can work from these plans. Every one has been worked out by a boy. [title page]

The Star Toy Maker. Plans and Instructions for Scores of Novel Devices [cover titling]. Aka: Plans and directions for making all sorts of clever and original toys, telephones, kites, cameras, wind mills, railroads, etc. Illustrated from new special drawings; any boy can work from these plans. Every one has been worked out by a boy. [title page]

by Read, Jack, compiler & editor

Detroit: Johnson Smith & Company / W. D. Boyce Co, 1907. Pamphlet. 64p., nearly every page is provided with a clear line-drawn sketch of craftwork vignette-size in surrounding text. Softbound in 5.5x4 inch stapled wraps, presswork on sadly acidic paperstock and so very toned. The wind-driven tri-cycle is our favorite. A fair-only copy, covers and textblock have detached, item is faintly damp-damaged throughout and badly marred at terminal leaves (potato gun remains legible). Staples are rusted with... Read more about this item
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£12.01
Lies

Lies

by Lourie, Dick

[Detroit]: [Printing Co-op], [197-?]. Pamphlet. 17p., wraps lightly toned along edges else very good in staplebound wraps. Radical poet.
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£12.01
Labor Notes [117 issues]

Labor Notes [117 issues]

by Moody, Kim, ed

Detroit, MI: Labor Education & Research Project, 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 loss of text, #156 and #164 have wrinkled wraps, #156 has an article clipped from the final page amounting in total two about a half of page removed, #189 is misfolded, #257 is unevenly toned, else in very good... Read more about this item
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£56.06
Fifth Estate: vol. 11, #11 (#275), August 1976

Fifth Estate: vol. 11, #11 (#275), August 1976

Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1976. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned, else very good condition.
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£16.02
Harmony and Dissonance Voices of Jewish Identity in Detroit, 1914-1967

Harmony and Dissonance Voices of Jewish Identity in Detroit, 1914-1967

by Bollkosky, Sidney M

Wayne State University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition :. Hardcover. 0814319335 . Heavy octovo hardcover, tight binding, white and fresh pages, looks unread, unworn covers, else quite FINE in FINE, mylar protected dustwrapper. Contains 543 pp. , b/w photos, notes on sources, notes, index. Chronological development of the theme of Jewish Identity, in its complexity throughout, then running into the Holocaust and the Jewish State in Israel. ; 10.1 X 6.7 X 1.2 inches .
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£10.25
The Fifth Estate: vol. 13, No. 2 (#290), March 2, 1978

The Fifth Estate: vol. 13, No. 2 (#290), March 2, 1978

Detroit: The Fifth Estate, 1978. Newspaper. 19p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, events, interviews, reviews, illustrations and photos, evenly toned else very good condition.
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£16.02
Ocherki po istorii anarkhicheskikh ideĭ i statʹi po raznym sotsialʹnym voprosam. Очерки по истории анархических идей, и статьи по разным социальным вопросам

Ocherki po istorii anarkhicheskikh ideĭ i statʹi po raznym sotsialʹnym voprosam. Очерки по истории анархических идей, и статьи по разным социальным вопросам

by Nettlau, Max

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.
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£28.03