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This thread is for people to post their collections of Detroit books.
Here is mine:
AIADetroit- The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture
Detroit Then and Now
Arcadia:
General Motors- a Photographic History
Detroit 1860-1899
Detroit's Michigan Central Station
Detroit's Historic Fort Wayne
Detroit's Corktown
Motor City Mafia- A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
Postcard History Series- Detroit's Historic Hotels and Restaurants
Buildings of Detroit 1st Edition
Buildings of Detroit Revised Edition [[signed by William Hawkins Ferry)
AIA Guide
Leonard Willeke Excellence in Arcitecture and Design [[signed the author Thomas W. Brunk)
Detroit now and then
Detroit American Urban Renaissance
Detroit Renewing the Dream
Diego Rivera The Detroit Industy Murals
The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888
When Detroit Rode the Rails Volumes 1-4
When Detroit Rode the Waves
The Legacy of Albert Kahn
Hudson's Hub of America's Heartland
Catholic Churches of Detroit
Buildings of Michigan
The Pewabic Pottery
Smith Hinchman & Grylls 125 Years of Architecture and Engineering, 1853-1978
Home in Detroit
Detroit's Downtown Movie Palaces
Forgotten Detroit
Hydroplane Racing in Detroit
The City of Detroit Michigan 1701-1922 Volumes 1-4
Packard The History of the Motor Car and the Company 1st Edition #3947
History of the Purple Gang
300 Plus books on Detroit based Automobile Manufacturers
Numerous books on the Detroit Metropolitan area and Michigan
Just one, and it's awesome, and it's oversized, and it's around here somewhere ... The Detroit Free Press published a massive collection of front pages [[except once they did a movie page from the forties, a billion theaters showing movies, including the Grande). Crappy pre-computer reproduction, though.
I have that book Smudge. You are correct about the poor reproduction and of course the tiny size of the printing. Tough to shrink a full size newspaper down to 11 x 17.
Couldn't agree about it being the only book to own about Detroit, but it is a good thing to have as it gives you a sense of the zeitgeist. The mark of modern folks is to see the past through the lense of contemporary sensiblities, thereby distorting the actual historical incident.
I believe the book was a premium for buying something else like a Channel 56 membership or DIA or some such thing.
In addition to some of the books already mentioned, I own [[or have borrowed) the following titles:
"Emergence and Growth of an Urban Region - the Developing Detroit Urban Area, Vols. 1-3", by Constantinos A. Doxiadis, The Detroit Edison Company, 1970,
"The Force of Energy - a Business History of the Detroit Edison Company", by Raymond C. Miller, MSU Press, 1971 [[borrowed)
"100 Years A Home - the History of the Evangelical Homes of Michigan and the Zoar Society", by Lowell R. Schrupp, The Evangelical Homes of Michigan, 6700 West Outer Drive, Detroit, MI 48235, 1979. [[56 page pamphlet)
"Good Moanin' - the Best of Bob Talbert", Bob Talbert, The Detroit Free Press, 1984
"Make Straight the Path: a 300 Year Pilgrimage", Roman Godzak, Archdiocese of Detroit, 2000
"General Motors Priorities and Focus - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", General Motors University, Detroit, MI, 2000
"From Soupy to Nuts - a History of Detroit Television", Tim Kiska, Momentum Books, 2005
"A Motor City Year", John Sobczak, Wayne State Press, 2009
At one time, I owned a copy of "American Odyssey" by Robert Conot, but I must have loaned it to someone and it never came back. It's a very good book.
I've got some oddball books written by Detroit media personalities, like
An autographed copy of The Vagabond Trail by George Pierrot
An autographed copy of The Charm Kitchen Cookbook by The Lady of Charm
An autographed copy of Ricky the Clown's autobiography
An autographed copy of Soupy Sales' autobiography
An autographed copy of Not This Time, Cary Grant!! by Shirley Eder
An autographed copy of Think Big by Dick Beals [[Beals grew up in Detroit and was on The Lone Ranger at WXYZ before becoming the voice of Speedy Alka_Seltzer)
Autographed copies of a couple of Sonny Eliot's books
Good Morning Detroit, autographed by Marilyn Turner
Toby "Captain Jolly" David's unpublished memoirs
A manuscript of a how-to book on ventriloquism by Ted "Sagebrush Shorty" Lloyd, along with about 50 letters of rejection from publishing houses.
W*Y*X*I*E Wonderland by Dick Osgood
Former WWJ-TV station manager Don F. DeGroot's autobiography
Please excuse me for taking the easy way out :D
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Not Books per say, But still paper goods about the "D"
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And a few Detroit related toys, With the newly added Milk Truck! Thanks Ed!:)
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I wish we could have made a little Milky the Clown to go with the truck, but that would have driven the price way up.
Ragtoplover59, your posts # 8 and # 9 made me laugh. Witty and creative you are.
"Devil's Night And Other True Tales of Detroit" by Zev Chafets
The Detroit Almanac is a good one.
Also some of the Michellaneous series by Gary W. Barth is entertaining [[if you like the whole Book of Lists style format)-along with his Mich-Again's Day. They can be found at John K. King on the first floor, and they are guaranteed to be mostly about Detroit.
The Execution of Private Slovik
Any of the Images of America series are decent [[I once knew someone who did one on the Train Station).
"Detroit: City of Race & Class Violence" by Widick
"A Hanging in Detroit"
"So You Love Tiger Stadium, Too"
"We Almost Lost Detroit"
"Detroit: I Do Mind Dying"
-all fairly available titles.
The Sugar House by Jean Scheffler
Got an Images of America one on the Downtown Hudson's building because I use to work there.
I have a few about Joe Louis. Does fiction count, because I have books by Elmore Leonard, Kienzel, Estelman, and Rob Kantner?
I bought the Purple Gang book by Kavieff at the Book Beat, only to find out it was poorly edited and would repeat entire pages word-for-word in different areas. It had some good facts, but i just think it could've been done better.
Margaret Truman's "Murder at the White House" mentions Detroit many times.