London: Privately Printed, 1953. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. 16mo; quarter linen over printed paper boards; original glassine (unprinted) jacket; 59pp; 10 gravure plates of Gill's friezes for the Archaeological Museum of Jerusalem, commissioned in 1934. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, else Fine in original..... More
[Bristol]: Society of Socialist Clergy and Ministers (S.S.C.M.), (1946). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. 12mo (19cm); printed paper wrappers; 13pp. Mild toning and corner-creasing; Very Good. On the role of the Church of England in post-War world affairs. Outlines a Christian Socialist approach to pacification following the "Fascist hangover." The..... More
Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First Edition. Apparently a mixed issue: covers are Gill's third variant (without the crossed-out price), but title page (rules) and pagination (p.5) conform to the earlier state. Since the wrappers on our copy are undersized by about 1/4", it seems plausible that this copy may have..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1920]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original green cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],256pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, light foxing along fore-edge of upper panel, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Posthumously published novel set in the New England Shaker community. BAL..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1920. Reprint of the first (1919) edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket printed in blue; ix,[3],362pp. A few short chips and tears to jacket extremities, several clean tears along folds, the largest to lower 2/3rds of rear jacket spine fold with..... More
[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was..... More
Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo. Original printed thick-paper wrappers; xvii, 450pp. Mild external toning and wear, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title, dated 1956. McColgan a Catholic priest from Boston; this was his doctoral dissertation, a scholarly study of the..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards; xv, 205,[2]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Presumed remainder issue, with the Swann Sonnenschein sheets in a binding which bears the Allen & Unwin slug at base of spine. Fresh copy of this pioneering work on child welfare by the..... 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
No Place: No Publisher. First Edition. N.p., n.d. (ca 1894). Octavo; self-wraps; 22pp. A fine copy. DARE 1527. A brief history of Oneida presented in the form of a dialogue between "Inquirer" and "Communist." OCLC locates a dozen copies; this is a fresh example. More
London: Heinemann, 1985. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); light brown boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 137pp. Spine ends are gently nudged, faint toning to page margins, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced £8.95 net) in Fine condition. Author's first novel and winner..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1986. First American Edition. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth backstrip over orange paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 137pp. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $14.95) also Fine condition. Author's first novel and winner of the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. "The twilight world..... More
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New York: Grove Press, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. US Edition, uncorrected bound galleys. Octavo (21cm); lime green wrappers, titled in black on the cover. 137pp. Light wear only, about Fine. Author's first novel and winner of the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. "The twilight world of adolescent..... More
Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1919. First Thus. Issued as Pepler's "Welfare Handbook" no. 6. The woodcut cover device is not attributed. Not in Gill. 12mo (13cm). Original gray paper wrappers; 22pp. Woodcut device to front cover, repeated as tail-piece on p.22. Slightly soil and foxing to cover wrappers; text fresh..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1927. Second Edition, Revised. Octavo. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; xi, 404pp. Straight, tight, Very Good or better, free of markings or significant wear. Ownership signature ("TJ Ailey") to front endpaper. Social and economic justice from the viewpoint of a Catholic theologian. More
[Oneida Creek, NY? 1901]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 9pp. Just About Fine. Article by a member of the Oneida Community, though published after the Bible Communist society had transitioned from a communal society to a joint stock company. Not in DARE. 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
New York: Humboldt Publishing Co., [1891]. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's cream decorative wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,[2],160,[2],[6](ads)pp.; three folding chart plates. A few small losses to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good, lovely but fragile copy. Cheap abridged edition issued as The Social Science Library..... 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
[Galva, IL: by the Colony, 1909]. First Edition. Rather uncommon souvenir volume produced some fifteen years after the events described; adapted from a series of articles published in 1896 in the Galva Weekly News. Includes many historical photographs, a history of the colony, and speeches delivered on the occasion by..... More
Oneida: Office of the American Socialist, 1878. First edition. A standard sourcebook on American utopias, including notes on many communities which do not receive much mention elsewhere. There was a simultaneous issue in wrappers; expanded editions were issued in 1902 and 1908. The first edition is somewhat uncommon, especially in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First edition. Nordhoff’s survey of utopian communities, based entirely on personal visits, remains the most reliable and thorough examination by a contemporary observer, providing detailed and generally sympathetic descriptions of life at Bethel, Aurora, Icaria, Amana, Oneida, Zoar, and the various Shaker communities. This..... More
New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1919. First Edition. Proposal for municipal collectivism, federal democracy, and political pluralism by Christian socialist and founder of the "Church of the Social Revolution." White was by this time an ex-member of the Socialist Party of America, having been removed in 1914 for his..... More
Newark NY: by the Author, 1892. First Edition. A social reform tract by the middling-prominent linguist and newspaper editor of Newark, New York. Wilson (1821-1914) was, according to his entry in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1918) the editor and publisher of the Newark Courier from 1871 to 1906..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898. First Edition. Thorough study of the Settlement movement in Boston's South End at the conclusion of the 19th century. Illustrated with maps and diagrams, including a two-page map of "The Chief Institutions & Meeting Places in a Part of the South End Boston." A particularly well-preserved..... More
