St. Louis. 1912. 32pp. Printed wrappers. Minor chipping to corner of wrappers and leaves not affecting text. Very good. Ameringer was a member of the Socialist Party and became editor of the AMERICAN GUARDIAN. His socialist views were specifically geared toward agriculture in the Midwest. Number 15 of the "Rip-Saw".....
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1975/1978. Two volumes. xxiii,[3],837;xiii,[3],978pp. plus folding map. Original green wrappers. Spines slightly sunned. Very good. Begins with an account of George Rapp's quest to find suitable land for his planned community and ends with the Harmony Society's move to Economy, Pennsylvania. An exhaustive collection of documents.....
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. [4],511pp. plus folding frontispiece map of the United States (with states outlined in color), folding chart of the straits of Niagara, folding table, and other tables in text. Modern three-quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt label. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Small tape repair.....
[Paris. 1842]. 32pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing, else very good. Early Cabet item, issued shortly before his American utopian adventures. Here he offers his advice to those interrogated or detained by the police, the captive's rights, etc., with citations from the articles of the 1791 constitution.
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[Paris: Felix Malteste, 1849]. 15,[1]pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light, intermittent soiling. Very good. The first issue of Étienne Cabet's periodical ICARIE, dated March 15, 1849, a compendium of letters and journal entries providing news of the Icarian utopian settlements in America to French and European.....
New Harmony: The Guild of Guides, 1969. 3-18pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Near fine. Prepared by local high school students and containing over thirty photographs, this pamplet provides an excellent architectural overview of Indiana's famous utopian experiment community.
Harrisburg, Pa. 1943. xviii,425pp. plus illus. Portrait. Original cloth. A few marginal pencil notes. Very good in somewhat chipped dust jacket. History of the society of religious German exiles and their colonization of Harmony, Pa., New Harmony, In., and Economy, Pa., beginning with the embarkation of George Rapp for America.....
Fountaingrove: Privately printed, 1894. 218pp. Later black cloth over limp covers. Corners rubbed, library labels on spine. Front board and spine separated from text block. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor soiling. Good. Volume of poetry by American mystic Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906), founder of the utopian community of Fountain.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. xii,168,32pp. Half title. Original brown cloth, spine gilt and stamped in black. Spine cocked, front hinge starting, light wear to cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title. Light tanning. Good. An atypical work by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, based on his association.....
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, Janvier 1856. 240pp. Dbd., original rear wrapper present but detached. Quite clean internally, and in very good condition. In a half morocco box. A scarce French printing of the principles, history, laws, constitution, and status of the Icarian communities in the United States. Founded by Étienne Cabet.....
[ Np]: New Harmony Memorial Commission, 1939. xii,219pp. plus nine plates. Original blue cloth. Gilt stamped cover and spine. Map endpapers. Frontispiece. Fine. An account of New Harmony, Indiana from the perspective of the Fauntleroy home. Originally constructed as the fifty-third dormitory of the Rappite community in New Harmony, it.....
Marion: The Chronicle Company, 1902. 5-282pp. including twenty-two plates. Original green cloth. Gilt stamped cover and spine, t.e.g. Portrait frontispiece of Robert Owen. Bookplate, worn at extremities, covers slightly soiled. Front inner hinge cracked, rear inner hinge starting. A good copy. A revisionistic history of the Owenities in Indiana, with.....
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1942. [2],147-379pp. with machine made laid paper leaves inserted every other leaf. Original blue cloth. Gilt stamped spine. Bookplate. Presentation copy of a review by Arthur E. Bestor, Jr. laid in. Very good or better. Volume fourteen, number two of the Indiana State Historical Society publications.....
New York. 1875. 439pp. plus plates and advertisements. Frontis. Gilt cloth. Chipped at head and toe of spine, a few mended tears at backstrip, hinges broken, front board detached. Internally quite good. Inscribed by the author, with an a.l.s. from him laid in. Includes first-hand accounts of the Shakers, the.....
Brooklyn. 1851. 208pp. Folio. Stitched. Light tanning. Very good. Untrimmed. A complete run of the first volume, comprising fifty-two issues spanning from November 1851 to October 1852, of THE CIRCULAR, "a publication of the utopian Oneida and Wallingford communities, edited by J.H. Noyes" - Lomazow. "The author, educated at Dartmouth.....
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1874. pp.3-360. Original green cloth. Gilt stamped cover and spine, t.e.g. Moderate wear to extremities, three loose signatures, front hinge starting. Good. Writing that he undertook the present autobiography at the suggestion of William Dean Howells, Owen here records his experiences from his boyhood.....
Aberystwyth. 1925. viii,90pp. Cloth. Bit soiled with some shelf wear. Internally fine, untrimmed and largely unopened. Second edition, revised and enlarged, limited to 1000 copies, published by the National Library of Wales.
Bethany, Va. Printed and Published by Alexander Campbell, 1829. Two volumes bound in one. 251; 301,[2]pp. Original calf, leather label. Extremities a bit worn, but binding tight. Foxing. Overall good plus. One of the more noted items attendant to Owen's transplantation to America and his founding of his "New Moral.....
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. 103,[4]pp. Original paper boards. Head of spine chipped. Binding substantially dampstained and soiled. Leaves foxed and dampstained. A reading copy. About good. The first edition of what is generally regarded as the first American novel relating to the California gold rush. It is, however.....
Paris: Garnier Fréres, 1858. [4],344pp. Half title. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Minor staining and chipping to wrappers, expertly mended along the joints. Scattered foxing to text, else clean internally. Very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. A captivating account of the failed socialist utopian.....
Evansville: Courier Company, [ 1890]. 17pp. Original wrappers. Chipping and wear to extremities. Ownership signature in pencil on front wrap, extensive pencil markings on rear wrap. Moderate soiling. A fair copy. The appendix to this work was one of the last efforts of the noted Indianian, Richard Owen.
Stuttgart. 1886. [8],139,[1]pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Some loss to top portion of cover, some chipping and light dust soiling. Internally quite clean. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. First German edition of this work on the Icarian community, which translates as ICARIA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF COMMUNISM. Founded.....
