[Massachusetts: ca 1870]. Original postal envelope, 3" x 5-1/4". Postally used, with Charlestown, MA cancellation and cancelled 3¢ stamp affixed to recto. Addressed to Warren, presumably in Linton's hand, in blue ink; Linton's name written, likely in a secretary's hand, below address. Light soil and wear; Very Good. Envelope only;..... More

New York: Selmar Hess, 1902. First Edition. Two Volumes [8 vols bound in 2, bound from parts]. Large Quarto. 30cm. Later institutional pebble green cloth with leather title labels. Light wear to the cloth, some chipping to title labels, bright, strong and handsome; internally clean, private library stamp to flyleaves..... 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

[Paris, France]: Gallimard, [1977, 1982, 1991]. Three volumes, all softcovers. Three Octavos (22.5cm); white paper wrappers; 535pp; 578pp; 563pp. Text in French. All three volumes from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his embossed pictorial bookplate to half-title page of vol. 3. Vol. 1..... 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

Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1894. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles, teg; vi+335, (6)pp. Small scuff to spine, scattered thumbsoil to text, still a fresh, tight copy, VG or better. Printed bookplate (George F. Horner) inside front cover. Codman arrived at Brook Farm with his parents in 1843..... 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

New York: Inter-Union Institute, Inc., 1950. First Edition. An anticommunist but pro-socialist labor periodical which drew articles and influences from across the left-right spectrum of the post-war labor movement. This issue includes what appears to be the first (and possibly only) appearance in English of Russian playwright Lev Luntz's dystopian..... 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

Oneida, NY: Office of the American Socialist, 1877. Third edition (though stated second). Octavo (22cm). Printed pale green wrappers; 32pp. A fresh, apparently uncirculated copy, Near Fine. A singular aspect of Noyes's Pefectionist philosophy, as practiced by his followers at the Oneida commune, was the sanctification of the human sexual..... More

New York: Holton Publishing Co., [n.d.]. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title. Second and Abridged Edition. Octavo (24cm). Original orange paper wraps, printed on front; 8pp. Complete as issued, though text ends mid-sentence. A whole and sound copy, bumped at..... 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 personal meeting with him that shall change our bodies from mortality to immortality...I can hardly..... More

[Oneida, NY]: Oneida Community, 1874. Second Edition. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title. Octavo (22cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet in light brown paper wraps; 39, [1]pp; list of Oneida publications on rear cover. Wrappers heavily toned at margins, one or two tiny..... More