[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

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

Chicago: Francis J. Schulte, [1890]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); publisher's blue cloth, with titles in gilt on spine and front cover; 367pp. Slight wear to cloth at spine ends, subtle darkening to spine, with gilt a trifle dull; still a very well-preserved Very Good or better copy, extremely..... 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

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1935]. First American Edition. Thick octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in the yellow second issue dustjacket printed in red and black; [2],877pp. Modest shelf-wear, with soil to covers and edges of textblock, and pencilled notes to front endpaper and pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, lightly spine-faded, dust-soiled, with dampstains..... 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

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

Putney, VT: 1843-44. First Edition. Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a small remainder of this title. Folio (40cm). Issues stitched together in plain paper wraps. Minor dirt, browning, and occasional dampstains to wrappers; internally clean and crisp: Very Good. Bi-monthly organ of Noyes's community of Bible Communists..... 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

Brooklyn: Writers' Publishing Co., [1915]. Popular history of the laboring class, here personified in the figure of "Dennis Hathnaught." Composed within a loosely fictional framework by MacCarthy in order that the presumably working-class reader, "may be taught to judge more intelligently of his own time and its problems if he..... More

Kenwood [NY]: 1897. First Edition. Replies, by a former resident, to "Monsieur [Auguste?] Fabre", answering questions regarding the disbanding of the Oneida Community. "I believe that the first cause of the dissolution of the Oneida Community was the plan and purpose of God...a second cause was the intense opposition or..... More