New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1937. First Edition. Biography of the Roman Catholic Priest and supporter of Henry George and the Single Tax movement. McGlynn would go so far as to found the Anti-Poverty Society for which he would be excommunicated between 1887 and 1892. EGBERT II, p. 319. Octavo (21cm.);..... 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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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: 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