Detroit: I Do Mind Dying - A Study in Urban Revolution [signed]

Dan Georgakas / Marin Surkin. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. First edition. Perfect bound in dark blue boards with gilt title at spine. In original unclipped dust jacket. 250 pp. Black and white images throughout text. Signed by Georgakas on title page.

The signed first edition of this book -  the essential history of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the events of the 1967 uprising in Detroit.

Dan Georgakas (b. 1938) is a poet, writer, historian and activist. He was a key member of the New York anarchist collective, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, and an important American organizer against the far-right Greek junta. He was also a co-author of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. Marvin Surkin worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit, and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change.

Edge wear to dust jacket, spotting to top fore edge of text block and spine slightly cocked; otherwise tight and clean inside. Very good.