Benton Harbor, MI: House of David, N.d. [ca 1934-5]. The House of David, a Southcottian religious commune, was founded in 1903 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The community's baseball team was a popular touring attraction of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, barnstorming throughout the east coast, southern states, and middle-west. Sporting..... More
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
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
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
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
Oneida, NY: Office of the American Socialist, 1877. Second edition. 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 Oneida, was the sanctification of the human sexual bond through the practice of..... More
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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
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
[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
New York: Charles Partridge, 1859. Translation of Kerner's most celebrated work, Die Seherin von Prevorst, first published in Stuttgart in 1829. This account of spirit-communication and somnabulism was based upon Kerner's real-world encounters with Friederike Hauffe, a gamekeeper's daughter who became a regular visitor to the Kerner house at Schloss..... More
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
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
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V.p. 1964, 1968. First Edition. The back-to-the-land agrarian theorist's earliest introduction to the concept of "trusterty," a substitute for land ownership based on the early Christian rejection of property and Gandhian trusteeship. The earlier title "condensed" by Mildred J. Loomis, co-founder of the Borsodian Lane's End Homestead from which she..... More
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
[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
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
