Boston: Sarah E Holmes, 1888. The definitive edition of Andrews's most important work, regarded by James J. Martin as "the finest statement of Warrenism ever written" (Men Against the State, p. 153). This edition republishes two separate works originally published in 1851. The first had been delivered earlier as a...... More

Stuttgart: Verlag von J.H.W. Dietz, 1890. First Edition. German-language biography of the French utopian socialist and inventor of the Phalanstère, a building design for an intentional community. August Bebel was co-founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (1869) and acted as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of..... More

New York: William H. Graham, 1848. Second Edition. French dyer's elaboration of Fourierist principles of organization for the working class, making the argument that certain points could be adopted by contemporary employers. Briancourt's publication could be considered one of a number of unsuccessful attempts to inspire the founding of a...... More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1917]. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original blue cloth, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine; xxvii,[1],320pp. Spine a bit cocked, labels darkened, last third of textblock fore-edge dampstained not affecting interior, else About Very Good and sound. Utopian satire first published anonymously..... More

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. First Edition. A key early work by Sinclair, supplying a sort of non-fiction sequel to his The Jungle, which had been published a year earlier. In the current work Sinclair analyzes present economic conditions,concentrating on wage-slavery and concentration of wealth, and predicts an inevitable social..... More

San Francisco: Alternative Foundations, 1971. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 187pp.; photographic illus. throughout, text printed in double column. Wrappers rather foxed and edges a bit worn with shallow creases at corners, else Good to Very Good overall. Sections separated into types of communes, including "New..... More

New York: McBride, Nast & Co., 1913. First American Edition. The Operation consisted of 220 Australians who moved to Paraguay in 1893 to establish the utopian settlement "New Australia" under the leadership of William Lane, a utopian socialist. Because of Lane's unpopular views on alcohol and sexual relationships, a splinter..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1935]. First American Edition. Thick octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in the yellow second issue dust jacket printed in red and black; [2],877pp. Jacket rather dust-soiled with a few tiny chips to extremities, else Very Good and sound overall. Second issue dust jacket with the extensive blurb by..... More

London: E.W. Allen, 1897. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Fifth volume of a series on Anglo-American mystic Thomas Lake Harris and his utopian free love community the Brotherhood of the New Life whose third iteration, located on Lake Erie in New York, was funded and financially supported by Laurence Oliphant..... More

New York: John B. Alden, 1885. First Thus. Condensed edition of Holyoake's "History of Co-Operation." The author, originally inspired by the writings of Robert Owen, would eventually form a secular splinter group with Charles Southwell called the "Oracle of Reason." Two years after the publication of this title Holyoake would..... More

Washington DC: [Robert R. Kern], 1924. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original dark green buckram, spine embossed in gilt; [2],349pp.; 4 plates of plans. About Fine. Proposal for the construction of the ideal city, which would be "put...to work to the end that part of the world's work may be accomplished..... More

Westwood, MA: Ariel Press, 1904. First Edition. Individualist anarchist author's utopian fable, following the premise of his 1902 tale "The Natural Man," describing one man living in harmony with nature. This title describes a group of people living in this way, though "the stress was more upon a rational selection..... More

New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1868. First Edition. Collection of short stories published after the author's tour of the West in search of a site for a proposed agricultural society, which would later become Greeley, Colorado (Meeker had been a member of the failed Fourierist Trumbull Phalanx in Ohio twenty..... More