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Summary: 16th constitutional convention, 1957, of the International Union United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), April 7-12, 1957, Atlantic City Auditorium, Atlantic City, NJ
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- 1957
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Detroit: United Automobile Workers, 1957. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good condition. Item Price
€18.85
Both sides always have a story... Which side are you on? [handbill]
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- 1982
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€70.70
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Berkeley: Labyris Employees Association, 1982. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill using cartoons to illustrate the perspective of striking mechanics from the feminist auto repair shop Labyris, accusing the shop of exploiting workers and replacing them with scabs. Very good. The Employees Association gives a Berkeley PO box, but the shop was in San Francisco. Depicts one of the owners proclaiming… Read more about this item Item Price
€70.70
Puppy Kitty. Hand Drawn in San Francisco 2011 - first edition - 1250 [+ internet contact info]
by Lennick, Jennie
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- 2011
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€16.97
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San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 2011. Paperback. Unpaginated, 35 pages or so, small paste-bound book (7.5x5 inches) nicely designed and executed, without bindery attribution -except by default, the author. Find simple sketches in pastel, that halfway through turn to depicting human faces and speeding automobiles (humans portrayed as awful masks, cars in tiny outline only). Condition: very good… Read more about this item Item Price
€16.97
Vanguard; a journal of radical thought, vol. 1, no. 1
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- 1969
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- Newspaper
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€37.70
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Stony Brook: Stony Brook SDS, 1969. Newspaper. [4]p., tabloid style format; photos., pages a bit handled, spinefold cracks. Good. Item Price
€37.70
Stock Car Stud: illustrated
by Anonymous
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- 1984
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€23.56
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New York: Star Dist, 1984. Paperback. 170p. + personal ads, illustrated with explicit drawings, very good first printing PBO in original explicit, camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-558. Item Price
€23.56
English-Chinese automotive nomenclature / Ying Han qi che yong yu zi hui 英漢汔車用語字彙
by Chang, Calvin C. 張長昌
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- 1943
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€28.28
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Indianapolis, IN: Marmon-Herrington Co, 1943. Paperback. [7], 236p., very good paperback. An effort to standardize the Chinese terminology for the automotive industry, with entries in English alphabetical order. Item Price
€28.28
The human bridge
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- [c193-?]
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€37.70
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[Dearborn, MI?]: Ford Motor Company, [c193-?]. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, 8.5x5.5 inch staplebound wraps; b&w photos are stills from the 16 mm motion picture by the same title; minor pencil mark on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Item Price
€37.70
Car Owner's Handbook, Volume Two; "a selected group of the most popular articles which appeared first in Science and Mechanics magazine.
by Angerman, V. D., editor and publisher
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- 1955
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- Magazine
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Chicago: Science and Mechanics Publishing Company, 1955. Magazine. 180p., acidic paperstock, near-pristine condition despite aging of textblock, not yet fragile but soon-to-be, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Find a cover-note by an earlier bookdealer, in pencil. Pretty color cover illustration! Performance reports on the '55 Chevy ! ..and lots more. Sound, clean and otherwise unmarked. Item Price
€18.85
Motor Body Designing Problems; Instructions and Explanation of Drawings [1931] -[plus]- Supplement to Motor Body Designing Problems [1933] -[with a further booklet, same title & date]
by Mercer, George J.
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- 1931
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€89.55
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Philadelphia: Ware Bros. Company Publishers, 1931. 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 diagrams. Presswork on all three booklets is identically laid… Read more about this item Item Price
€89.55
Sane driving
by Lapham, D. M.
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- nd
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€11.31
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Portland, OR: Radio Cab company, nd. Pamphlet. Four panel brochure on safe driving; in very good condition. Item Price
€11.31
Popular Mechanics Shop Notes - For Every Man Who Uses Tools. Volume Forty-Three 1947. Forty-third annual collection of outstanding workshop hints and practical ideas of special value and interest to the craftsman, home owner, experimenter and shop worker
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- 1946
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- Magazine
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Chicago: Popular Mechanics Company, 1946. Magazine. 204p. plus ad leaf, profuse illustrations by photography, artwork and diagrams amidst running texts. Softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps; trivial abrasion to one joint-line, a touch of handling soil to its opposite, find a former owner's penciled letters to front cover, this is an amazingly clean sound copy. Exposed-staple binding is without… Read more about this item Item Price
€18.85
Anticlimax Leviathan
by Bartek, Ryan
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- 2018
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€11.31
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npl: Anomie Press, 2018. Paperback. 403p., wraps, second edition, revised; in very good condition. Item Price
€11.31
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Nouvelle Carte des France a l'usage des Cyclistes et Automobilistes D'apres la carte de l'Etat-Major, Echelle du 1/250,000
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- 1920
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- Map
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1920. Map. A very large folded map, no.10 of 32 plats, this devoted to Switzerland (Zurich area), folded and re-folded neatly so that it still fits into the publisher's 5x7 inch manila sleeve. The sleeve took the brunt of use and age; it is filthy with dust-soil (in places to the point of illegibility) and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nouvelle Carte des France a l'usage [por] bicyclistes [? - text rubbed away] et automovilistes [plus a line on magnification ratio, uncertain]
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- 1920
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- Map
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1920. Map. A very large folded map, no.9 of 32 plats, this devoted to area west of Paris, folded and re-folded neatly so that it still fits into the publisher's 5x7 inch manila sleeve. The sleeve took the brunt of use and age; it is very dust-soiled (in places to the point of illegibility) and… Read more about this item Item Price
€18.85
A Collection of Odd & Intriguing Facts about Mercedes-Benz Automobiles
by Purdy, Ken W.
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- 1961
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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South Bend, IN: Mercedes-Benz Sales Inc, 1961. Pamphlet. 8p., illustrations, staplebound wraps. 8 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Trivia on car racing, global scope of the Mercedes-Benz concern ("sold in 143 countries"), and "academically correct pronunciation" of the firm's name. Item Price
€18.85
Bill Betteridge and His "Little Red Racer." Written by his friends
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- 1938
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€42.42
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Glendale, CA: Wayne A. Wonacott, Franklin Press, 1938. Pamphlet. [4], 5, [1], 6-12, [1], 13-17, [1], 18-22, [1], 23-28, [4]p., illustrations, wraps. 8.75 x 6 in. Very Good. Biography and memorial to the midget car racer who died at age 23 in an accident in June 1937. Includes excerpts from newspaper articles, passages Betteridge underlined in his Bible, and… Read more about this item Item Price
€42.42
A Report to You on Staggered Hours. From the Traffic Safety Committee, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
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- 1943
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€18.85
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Atlanta, GA: Chamber of Commerce, 1943. Pamphlet. 16p., illustrations, wraps. 9 x 6 in. Describes implementation of a wartime scheme to reduce street traffic by "spreading the time during which people go to work so that more cars and buses can make an additional rush-hour trip.". Item Price
€18.85
NAFI Workers' News. Special issue. Vol. 1 no. 2 (January 15, 1937). Stool Pigeon Exposed
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- 1937
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- Newsletter
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€212.08
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n.p.: Local 205, United Automobile Workers of America, 1937. Newsletter. Single-sheet newsletter, 8.5x13 inches, two small edge chips. Not found in OCLC as of September 2023. Issued during a General Motors strike, reports on the discovery that F. Arthur Roszel had been a paid informant for management, joining the union only to report on its activities. Opens with a… Read more about this item Item Price
€212.08
Strike (December 1939)
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- 1939
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- Newsletter
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€70.70
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n.p.: Committee for Revolutionary Labor Action, 1939. Newsletter. [16p.], 8.5x11 inch mimeographed newsletter, very good. Not found in OCLC as of September 2023. The Committee (whose members were nicknamed "Crullers" according to a passing mention in Milton Klonsky's "First acquaintance with poets"), Includes an article lamenting the resolution of a Chrysler strike, calling the CIO leaders Stalinist sellouts and… Read more about this item Item Price
€70.70
Women's Auxiliary News [two issues]
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- 1941
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San Francisco, California, USA
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€56.56
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Detroit: IUUAWA-CIO, 1941. Two issues of the mimeographed, 8.5x11 inch newsletter, vol. 1 no. 1 and vol. 2 no. 2, eight and six pages respectively, very good. Much discussion of the work of the United Auto Workers' Women's Auxiliary members, "Not only in strike kitchens and on picket lines, but before welfare boards and common councils and legislative committees… Read more about this item Item Price
€56.56