Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 534pp; illus; map endpapers. Tight, Near Fine copy in a homemade kraft-paper dustwrapper utilizing front and rear flaps from the original jacket. 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: Sterling Publishing Co., 1894. First American Edition. Henry Georgist utopian novel first serialized in "Our Commonwealth" (Adelaide, Australia), a newspaper published by Ignatius Singer to promote land nationalization and the single tax. The work describes an anonymous narrator's experiences after being elected dictator of England and his activities..... More
New York: AMS, n.d., ca. 1980s. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's teal blind-ruled cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; [2],367pp.; frontispiece. Fine condition. Facsimile reprint of the original 1890 edition of this classic anti-capitalist utopian novel, forming part of the "Communal Societies in America" reprint series. More
Anand, India: Charotar Book Stall, 1968. First Edition. The back-to-the-land agrarian theorist's definition of the three categories of possession "which cannot be morally treated as property" under "trusterty"--human beings, natural resources, and legal grants. The author defines "trusterty" as a substitute for land ownership based on the early Christian rejection..... More
Paris: A la Librairie Sociétaire, 1846 [but 1848]. Second Edition. French dyer's proposal 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..... More
Brattleboro: Published by the Author, 1849. First Edition. Vitriolic exposé on the career of the utopian socialist John Humphrey Noyes, published a year after his expulsion from Putney, Vermont. Noyes had originally developed the Oneida Community in that rural village, practicing his peculiar brand of theocratic philosophy, incorporating a blend..... 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
![Talk at the Railroad Station [drop title]. Cyrus ELDER](/pictures/medium/32452.jpg?v=1594440148)
[Philadelphia? Henry Carey Baird? ca. 1870s]. First Separate Edition. Octavo (23cm.); side-stitched self-wrappers; 16pp.; illus. by Henry L. Stephens. Wrappers a bit chipped and dust-soiled, spine almost entirely split, else About Very Good. Separate edition of four short pieces which first appeared in Elder's utopian Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise..... More
Nimes: Bureaux de "L'Emancipation" 1896. First Edition. Octavo (25cm). Printed paper wrappers; 136pp. Mild wear, with age-darkening to text; pages unopened; Very Good. Study of the social projects of Robert Owen, including his utopian communities in the U.S. and his industrial experiments at New Lanark. Fabre (1839-1922) was a prominent..... More
![The Modern Utopian Communes, U.S.A.: Special 3-in-1 Issue [Vol. 5, nos. 1-3]. Dick FAIRWEATHER](/pictures/medium/45991.jpg?v=1570745524)
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
London: William Reeves, [1891]. First U.K. Edition. A positive response to Bellamy's Looking Backward 1988-1888; one of literally dozens of "answer novels" published in the wake of Bellamy's utopia. First issued by the author in a tiny edition, under a New Orleans imprint, the British issue is more available but..... 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
Dallas: H.L. Hunt Press, 1960. First Edition. The poker player-turned-oil tycoon's right-wing utopian fantasy, in which the ideal society would function on a graduated scale of suffrage, the oldest, richest, and most ambitious citizens getting the most votes. Thus, according to the author, "Self-government will at last be an actuality..... More
Philadelphia: The Producers' Exchange of Labour for Labour Association, [1828]. First Edition. Trade broadside listing seven products available for sale at the Labour for Labour Store of Philadelphia, a co-operative enterprise established in 1828 by followers of American proto-anarchist Josiah Warren. The Constitution of the Philadelphia Labour for Labour Association..... More
Brooklyn: Writers' Publishing Co., [1915]. A popular history of the laboring class, here personified in the figure of "Dennis Hathnaught." Composed by MacCarthy in order that the reader, presumably of the working class, "may be taught to judge more intelligently of his own time and its problems if he has..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Office, 1869. First Edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; original tan printed wrappers; 49 pp. Bit of external wear and soil, mild creasing to first few leaves of text; ca. 1/2" loss to paper at base of spine. Very Good. Very nice copy of the somewhat uncommon..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Second edition. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); xvii,394pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in the original wrappers. More
[Oneida, NY? Oneida Community, 1901?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original pale green pictorial staplebound card wrappers in plain white paper dust jacket; 20pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket quite fragile with chipping and some loss and splitting along extremities and folds, rear flap cleanly lacking, else Fine in a Good only jacket..... More
[Oneida: 1875]. First Edition. Spiritualist gloss on the life of the apostle Paul and the Second Advent: "...we have to study...whether our relations to Christ are such that we too can rationally hope for a perosnal meeting with him that shall change our bodies from mortality to immortality...I can hardly..... More
![The Perfectionist [later issues titled: Perfectionist and Theocratic Watchman]. Vols III-IV....](/pictures/medium/43844.jpg?v=1582573423)
Putney, VT: 1843-45. Bi-monthly organ of Noyes's community of Bible Communists, a successor publication to The Witness. The paper was primarily an outlet for Noyes's peculiar brand of theocratic philosophy, which incorporated a blend of Free Love and so-called "male-continence" (i.e., intercourse without ejaculation); The Perfectionist was distributed nationally and..... More
No Place: No Publisher. First Edition. N.p., n.d. (ca 1894). Octavo; 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. More
[London: D.B. Cousins, ca 1841]. A freethought tract. Not in Ballinger (Nat. Library of Wales); OCLC finds 8 locations; later reissued by J. Watson and others. 16mo. Printed pamphlet; 16pp. Removed; lacking original cover wraps; Good. More
London: J. Watson, N.d. [1841?]. A freethought tract. Not in Ballinger (Nat. Library of Wales); OCLC finds about 19 locations. Watson issued printings in 1841, 1843, and 1845; adverts on final leaf (announcing the pending publication of Owen's "Address on Free Inquiry") would appear to date this as the earliest..... More
