[AUTO INDUSTRY] Council on Social Action
Why Did the Auto Workers Strike? (Social Action Volume III No. 4)
New York: Pilgrim Press, 1937. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; original pictorial wrappers; 31pp. Published as Volume III, no. 4 of Social Action, the monthly organ of the Council on Social Action. Mild external soil and wear; VG overall. Subscription blank laid in. Lays out the circumstances leading up to the...

[BOOK ARTS & TYPOGRAPHY] GILL, Eric and Rene HAGUE
AN ESSAY ON TYPOGRAPHY by Eric Gill, comprising a Composition of Time & Place (p.3) and chapters as follows: on Lettering (p.25), on Typography (p.61) on Punch cutting (p.77), on Paper & Ink (p.83), on the Compositor’s ‘Stick&#821
London: Sheed & Ward, 1931. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 500 signed copies printed by Rene Hague & Eric Gill at Pigotts, Buckinghamshire. Crown octavo (19cm). Original red buckram, lettered in gilt on spine; 124pp, with 25 figures in the text. Oval bookplate of John C. Tarr inside front cover...

[CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT] HUGO, John J.
Dorothy Day: Apostle of the Industrial Age
First Edition. [Pittsburgh: by the Author, 1980]. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; [14pp]. Mild soil and wear; Very Good. Appreciation of Dorothy Day by her life-long friend and spiritual advisor. Originally published as an article in The Pittsburgh Catholic following Day's death in 1980.

EDDY, Sherwood
Revolutionary Christianity
Chicago: Willett, Clark, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 229pp. Signed by the author on front endpaper. Staining to bottom 1/3 of front board, else a tight, VG copy in the scarce dustwrapper, slightly sunned on spine but still Near Fine. Eddy, a prolific religious author, missionary, and...

[FREETHOUGHT] [ETHICAL CULTURE] COIT, Stanton (ed)
Social Worship for Use In Families Schools & Churches [...] Issued on Behalf of the West London Ethical Society as a Memorial of its Twenty-First Anniversary
London: The West London Ethical Society/The Ethical Church, 1913. First Edition. Two quarto volumes (28cm). Original blue-gray cloth, lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; lxxv,654; xxxv,229pp. Cloth boards slightly discolored at extremities; scattered foxing within; Very Good. The first volume consists of meditations and homilies chosen from both...

GILL, Eric
Sculpture: An Essay By Eric Gill. Reprinted from "The Highway" June A.D. 1917
Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First Edition. Slim octavo; buff printed wrappers; 21pp + 4pp publisher's ads. Covers trimmed short (see note below); mild wear and creasing to wrapper edges, still Very Good or better. Apparently a mixed issue: covers are Gill's third variant (without the crossed-out price), but title page...

Hatcher, Harold O.
The Textile Primer (Social Action Volume II No. 8)
Boston: PIlgrim Press, 1936. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; original pictorial wrappers; 39pp. Published as Volume II, no. 8 of the monthly "Social Action." Soil to cover extremities; internally clean; VG overall. "Social Action" subscription blank laid in. A compendium of facts and statistics regarding the American textile industry, probably intended...

[ONEIDA] SEYMOUR, Henry J.
The Oneida Community. A Dialogue.
No Place: No Publisher. First Edition. N.p., n.d. (ca 1894). 8°; self-wraps; 22pp. A fine copy. DARE 1527. A brief history of Oneida presented in the form of a dialogue between "Inquirer" and "Communist." OCLC locates a dozen copies; this is a fresh example. Octavo.

[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] TOURGEE, Albion W.
Murvale Eastman, Christian Socialist
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt and silver foil on spine and front cover; 545pp + 10p publisher's ads. Minor wear; slight lifting to cloth on front board; Very Good or better. Blake calls this "...a long and...

[ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS] BATEMAN, Gerald Cooper
A Countryman's Calendar: Sayings for the Months
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1927. First Edition. Small octavo; linen-backed printed paper boards; 31pp; illus. Moderate soil and wear to spine and board edges; internally Fine; Very Good overall. Handsome woodcut decorations; unattributed but quite likely the work of Desmond Chute and Dudley Short, two of Pepler & Gill's acolytes...

[UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES - HARMONY] DUSS, John S.
The Harmonists: A Personal History
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Book Service, 1943. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 425pp; illus. Small spot of discoloration at crown of spine; bookplate to front pastedown, else a tight, Near Fine copy in bright, Near Fine dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks to upper edge. Excellent...

[UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] NORDHOFF, Charles
The Communistic Societies of the United States; From Personal Visit and Observation
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First edition. In variant publisher's binding of brown cloth boards, with brown, glazed endpapers; lettered in gilt; 439, (8)pp; illus; map. Ownership signature of Jacob Sleeper to half-title, dated 1874. Minor wear to spine ends; faint old stain to marginal extremity of final 20...

[UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] [SHAKERS] ROBINSON, Charles Edson
A Concise History of the United Society of Believers called Shakers
East Canterbury, NH: Printed at Shaker Village, 1893. First Edition. Octavo. Original boards; 134pp; 25 illus; portr. frontis. This copy with the variant cover title "The Shakers." Spot of abrasion at crown of spine; mild wear to board edges; a solid, attractive copy. Pencil ownership signature of "D.W. Bartlett" to...