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
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
Utica: Church Socialist League, 1918. Single, orginal quarto issue in original wrappers; 24pp. Clean, Near Fine copy. Uncommon Christian Socialist publication, edited by Vida Scudder with contributions by Rev. Paul Jones, Wells Weeks, Lyford Edwads, and others. 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
[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
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
[Oneida, NY? Oneida Community, 1901?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original pale green pictorial staplebound card wrappers in plain white paper dust jacket; 20pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket quite fragile with chipping and some loss and splitting along extremities and folds, rear flap cleanly lacking, else Fine in a Good only jacket..... 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
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
Iowa City: The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, 1904. Second Edition (but see note). Octavo ( 28cm). Staple-bound, printed wrappers; 28pp. Chipping to wrapper edges; text fresh and clean, mostly unopened. The "authorized" history of Amana, written by an elder of the Society. The first edition, printed on the..... 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
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
Lowell: Thompson & Hill - The Vox Populi Press, 1897. First Edition. This copy with an undated presentation inscription to Harvard economist Charles Phillips Huse: "C.P. Huse, from his pupil, George D. Osgood. A grandson of the man who saved the Community remnants and never received any thanks for so..... 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
