Labor Unity: What AFL-CIO Merger Means for Workers
New York: New Century Publishers, 1955. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 15pp. Very Good, clean and unmarked copy. CPUSA perspective on the then-pending AFL-CIO merger. More
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Hugo Blanco on Chile & Peru
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 15pp. Slight wear; vertical crease; a few ink notes in margins; a Good reading copy. Interview, first published in the Intercontinental Press (1972). More
What Is Rationalisation? The Minority Movement's contribution to a wider understanding in the Trade Union movement of the meaning and effects of Rationalisation
London: National Minority Movement, 1928. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 66pp. Pencil marginalia throughout; minor aging to wrappers; stamp of the Labor Research Ass'n (New York) to front cover. Very Good. More
Noyesism Unveiled: A History of the Sect Self-Styled Perfectionists; with a Summary View of Their Leading Doctrines
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
Christosophia, oder, Der Weg zu Christo. Verfasset in neun Büchlein, nun in acht, zusammen gezogen welche handeln von wahrer Busse, und vom Schlüssel göttlicher Geheimnisse; vom H. Gebet; von der wahren Gelassenheit; von der Wiedergeburt; vom übersinnlichen Leben; von göttlicher Beschaulichkeit: nebst einem Gespräch einer erleuchteten und unerleuchteten Seele; wie auch von der vier Complexionen
Ephrata, PA: Jacob Ruth, [1811]. First American Edition. Arndt calls for five plates; this appears to be an unlisted variant containing both a portrait frontispiece (not called for in this edition) and an extra plate. The first printing in America of this devotional work by the Christian mystic and visionary... More
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The Modern Utopian Communes, U.S.A.: Special 3-in-1 Issue [Vol. 5, nos. 1-3]
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
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. With Narrative Illustrations
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872. Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) was the eldest son of English social reformer Robert Owen, and co-founder with Frances Wright of the experimental community at Nashoba, Tennessee. His interest in spiritualism, dating from the 1850s, led to two book-length works: "Footfalls" and "The Debatable Land... More
Life in the West; or, Stories of the Mississippi Valley
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
The Quadrangle. Published Monthly for the Members of the Oneida Community, Limited. Vol. V, No. XII (Dec. 1912)
Kenwood, NY: [Oneida Community Limited], 1912. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 18pp; illus. Dark stain to left margin of front wrapper, extending slightly onto first leaf of text; else complete and clean. Uncommon periodical of the Oneida Community Limited, the joint-stock silverware company that was the successor to... More
Psychiatric Newsletter. 26 (of 31) issues, 1948-50
New York: Psychiatric Newsletter, 1948-50. First Edition. Published without editorial or authorial credits, but our colleagues at Bolerium Books (San Francisco) have produced convincing evidence that Psychiatric Newsletter was the work of Dr. John L. Simon, a Lincoln Battalion veteran of the Spanish Civil War and NYU-trained clinical psychiatrist. This... More
Humanistic Values of the Icarian Movement: Proceedings of the Symposium on the "Revelance of the Icarian Movement to Today's World," Nauvoo, Illinois, July 21 & 22, 1979
[Carthage, IL: Country Printer, 1980]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; v,48pp.; illus. Some toning to wrapper extremities, else Very Good or better. More
The Bishop Hill Colony: a Religious Communistic Settlement in Henry County, Illinois [Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical & Political Science, Tenth Series]
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (25cm). Publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth; 80, (2)pp. Lacks front free endpaper, else a tight, Very Good copy. Engraved bookplate and a few private accession stamps from the Library of Joseph S. Shefloe [Shefloe was long-time Professor of French at Johns... More
Voyage en Icarie
Paris: Au Bureau du Populaire, 1848. Cinquième Édition. First published in 1840, "Voyage en Icarie" presented in novelistic form the theories of Cabet's Icarian movement in which "society...placed all economic activity under the guidance and control of elected officials and made the family the only other politically influential unit" (Richard..... More
The Model Town; or, the Right and Progressive Organization of Industry for the Production of Material and Moral Wealth
Cambridge: for the Author, 1869. First Edition. A late survival of Fourierist ideas, by a Congregational minister of Warwick, Mass. Lays out the physical, political and moral dimensions of the ideal Christian associationist community; Bassett's key points are co-ownership of property, with shares apportioned in proportion with each member's investment;... More
Autobiography of Adin Ballou. 1803 - 1890. Containing an Elaborate Record and Narrative of His Life from Infancy to Old Age
Lowell, MA: The Vox Populi Press / Thompson & Hill, 1896. First Edition. Posthumously prepared memoirs of Adin Ballou, the Universalist clergyman and abolitionist who founded the utopian Hopedale Community in 1842 as an experiment in "practical Christianity." The original community only boasted thirty-one members, but by 1861, under the... More
The O.C. Daily -- Run of 17 Issues
[Oneida Creek, NY]: Oneida Community, 1867. First Edition. Small daily newsletter issued by the Bible Communist commune of Oneida Creek, New York. First founded in 1843 by John Humphrey Noyes, the group was driven out of Putney, Vermont, in 1848, and eventually transitioned from a communal society to a joint... More
Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson, a Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century; containing an authetic narrative of her life and character, and of the rise, progress, and conclusion of her ministry
Bath, NY: R. L. Underwood & Co., 1844. [Second Edition]. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819), the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend," creating... More
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