Buenos Aires: "La Protesta" 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; 283,(1)pp; one folding plan inserted at p.72. A sound, Very Good copy in the original wrappers; old adhesive stain (possibly from bindery) to verso of rear wrapper; the plan with small punctures at folds; text fresh..... More

Londres [i.e. Paris]: Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot, 1784. First Edition. Pechmeja's best-selling prose poem, published anonymously under the patronage of one Madame de Beauvau, presumably the Marquise de Boufflers. The work enjoyed both enthusiastic and scathing reviews from the most celebrated literary figures of the time. Readers admired the..... More

New York: Harry Abrams, 1991. First, Limited Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Four volumes, housed in the original publisher's cardboard clamshell box with paper title labels. Each volume limited to 500 copies. Velo-Bound with grey card covers and paper title labels. The cardboard clamshell box is complete, strong and solid, lightly soiled..... 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

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Reddish-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine with pictorial gilt device to front board; dustjacket; 320pp. A tight, clean, very Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50..... More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First Edition. Gale's first novel. "A Utopian kingdom on a mythical island serves as a backdrop for romance between an heiress and a newspaper publisher" (Hanna 1354). REGINALD 05710; LEWIS, p.68; NEGLEY 400. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); sage green cloth, with titling and pictorial elements..... More

Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Press, 1935. First Edition. Long's posthumously-published political fantasy, imagining a world in which he has won the 1936 Presidential race and begun instituting his populist reform agenda. Long-form fiction proved a perhaps over-elaborate vehicle for campaign propaganda (especially given Long's target audience), and My First Days in..... 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

[NY]: [Oneida Community], [n.d. but ca 1886]. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title. Single sheet (20x13cm) steel engraving. Slightly rubbed with minor dirt to extremities: Very Good. Vignetted head-and-shoulders portrait of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), founder of the Oneida Community..... More

[n.p.]: Manawatu Herald, 1908. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title. Broadside (22x14cm). Printed on one side of white paper. Rubbed, with small creases and tiny tears at edges: Very Good. Anecdotes about "Father Noyes," founder of the Oneida Community in..... More