Custer and the Great Controversy: Origin and Development of a Legend
by UTLEY, Robert M.
Pasadena: Westernlore Press, 1980. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 184pp. About fine, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed ad extremities with a brief, closed tear; Very Good.
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What is the American Colony
by [UTOPIAN] VESTER, Bertha Spafford
Jerusalem: Greek Convent Press, N.d. [ca 1952]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet, 23cm x 16cm (ca 9" x 6"). Printed plain paper wrappers; 12pp. Wrappers toned; rear wrapper sound but discolored, apparently from having once been laid down in an album; contents clean and unmarked. Good and complete. Includes fundraising pledge form bound in after final page of text. Scarce,... Read More
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The Communistic Societies of the United States; From Personal Visit and Observation
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] NORDHOFF, Charles
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth boards lettered in gilt; laid endpapers; 439, (8)pp; illus; map. Engraved bookplate of Frederic Rowland Marvin to front pastedown. Bit of minor fraying to spine ends; a bright, Near Fine copy. Nordhoff’s survey of utopian communities, based entirely on personal visits, remains the most reliable and thorough... Read More
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Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise, And Other Sketches
by [UTOPIAN FICTION] [TAX REFORM] ELDER, Cyrus; Henry L. Stephens, illus
Philadelphia: Published for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, 1872. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); disbound from larger volume with remnants of cloth spine still present; 96pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Very faint previous vertical fold, else Very Good and fresh. The title story is a satirical utopia intended to discredit supporters of laissez-faire economics, and the Free-Trade League... Read More
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A Trip to Freeland
by [UTOPIAS - FREELAND] HERTZKA, Dr. T. [Theodore]
Bow, WA: The Freeland Printing and Publishing Co, 1905. First American Edition. First printing. Staple-bound pamphlet, 21cm x 12.5cm. Printed blue paper wrappers; 66pp. Covers and margins foxed, text age-darkened and lightly soiled; wrappers ill-fitting (as usual); a Good, complete copy. Though called the "Revised" edition, this is in fact the first American printing of Eine Reise Nach Freiland,... Read More
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La Cité Future: Essai d'une Utopie Scientifique
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] [FRANCE] TARBOURIECH, Ernest
Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1902. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments, original wrappers bound in; [6],484pp. Boards very slightly rubbed, spine leather almost entirely toned to brown, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. At head of title: "Bibliothèque des Recherches Sociales - No. 7." Eugenicist utopian treatise by... Read More
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Voyage en Icarie
by [UTOPIAN LITERATURE] CABET, Etienne
Paris: Au Bureau du Populaire, 1848. Cinquième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary plum morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in five compartments, green morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; [4],viii,600pp. Spine sunned, boards a hint scuffed, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. First published in 1840, "Voyage en Icarie" presented in novelistic form the theories of Cabet's Icarian movement in which... Read More
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![Suomesta Sointulaan: Siirtolaiselämän Kuvauksia [From Finland to Sointula: Descriptions of Migrant Life]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/203/707/1457707203.0.m.jpg)
Suomesta Sointulaan: Siirtolaiselämän Kuvauksia [From Finland to Sointula: Descriptions of Migrant Life]
by [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] SAVELA, Evert
Superior, WI: Työmies Society, n.d. (ca 1940s). First Edition. Octavo (21cm); light blue card wrappers, printed in red and navy blue; [4],5-143,[1]pp; text is entirely in Finnish. Gentle sunning and light wear to spine and extremities, with some dust-soil to lower front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. Uncommon novel (in Finnish) set in the Kalevan Kansa Colony,... Read More
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Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Bishop Hill Colony, Held at Bishop Hill, Illinois, Wednesday and THursday, September 23 and 24, 1896
by [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES - BISHOP HILL COLONY] ROOT, John Jr. (et al)
[Galva, IL: by the Colony, 1909]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm). Printed brown card wrappers; 48pp; illus. Mild creasing to wrapper edges, else Near Fine. 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,... Read More
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Looking Forward or, The Story of An American Farm
by [UTOPIAN LITERATURE] ROGERS, John A.
N.p. [Olympia, WA]: Spike Publishing Company, 1898. Second Edition. Quarto (25cm). Pictorial blue cloth, stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; 325pp; illus. Covers a trifle soiled; mild rubbing to board edges; a tight, VG copy. Revised and re-titled edition of a novel originally published under the title The Graftons or, Looking Forward, by "S.L.... Read More
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![The Bishop Hill Colony: a Religious Communistic Settlement in Henry County, Illinois [Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical & Political Science, Tenth Series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/448/305/1111305448.0.m.1.jpg)
The Bishop Hill Colony: a Religious Communistic Settlement in Henry County, Illinois [Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical & Political Science, Tenth Series]
by [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES - BISHOP HILL COLONY] MIKKELSEN, Michael A.
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 Hopkins]. A good, sound copy.
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Social Solutions
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] GODIN, M. [Jean Baptiste André]; Marie Howland, trans
New York: John W. Lovell Company, [1886]. First American Edition. Octavo (18.75cm.); publisher's plum blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; x,[3]-326,[2],28pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, six folding plates, including plans, text illus. throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, boards rather soiled, spine sunned, some toning to endpapers due to inferior paper quality, a couple plates slightly mis-folded with subsequent... Read More
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![The New Columbia; or, The Re-United States [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/121/519/884519121.0.m.1.jpg)
The New Columbia; or, The Re-United States [Inscribed]
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] TANGENT, Patrick Quinn [pseud. George Hamilton Phelps]
Findlay, OH: New Columbia Publishing Co, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); light grey pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and orange; vii,[3],99,[1],[1](ad)pp. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: "Otto D. Donnell / I want you to read the / last chapter and ask / your good wife to read the / first. I want to make her... Read More
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![Property and Trusterty, A Study of the Possessional Problem [Together With] Seventeen Problems of Man and Society](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/272/998/1296998272.0.m.jpg)
Property and Trusterty, A Study of the Possessional Problem [Together With] Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] BORSODI, Ralph
V.p., 1964, 1968. First Edition. Two volumes as described below: 1. Property and Trusterty, A Study of the Possessional Problem. Book 10 in a series on Seventeen Basic Problems of Individuals and of Society from an original manuscript of 250 pages by Ralph Borsodi...Condensed by Mildred J. Loomis. Brookville, OH: School of Living, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.);... Read More
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Henry Ashton; A Thrilling Story of How the Famous Co-Operative Commonwealth was Established in Zanland
by [UTOPIAN FICTION] DAGUE, R.A. [Robert Addison]
Alameda: By the Author, 1903. First edition. 12mo. Original cloth; 235, (2)pp. Few faint spots to cover; abrasion to rear endpaper, else a straight, tight and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. SARGENT 65. NEGLEY 252. HANNA 894. A Christian socialist utopia is established off the coast of California.
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Albert Brisbane: A Mental Biograpy, with A Character Study by His Wife
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] BRISBANE, Redelia
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1893. First Edition. Large octavo (23cm). Pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 377pp + 8pp publisher's ads; portr. frontispiece. Tight, attractive copy, lightly worn at board edges, endpapers darkened as usual; a little dulled on spine, but generally sound and better than typically seen. Private library label of John Sullivan... Read More
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The Future of the North-West: in Connection with the Scheme of Reconstruction Without New England. Addressed to the People of Indiana
by [UTOPIAN SOCIALISM] [SLAVERY] [INDIANA] OWEN, Robert Dale
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1863. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Sewn pamphlet; original pictorial wrappers; 15,[1pp]. Shelf-wear, with soil to wrappers and interior, and 3" tears to upper spine folds; Good. The noted Indiana socialist addresses the topic of slavery, arguing against a "separate peace" with the Southern states. Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) was the son of Robert... Read More
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![An Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, on the First of January, 1816, at the Opening of the Institution Established for the Formation of Character [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/001/802/1326802001.0.m.jpg)
An Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, on the First of January, 1816, at the Opening of the Institution Established for the Formation of Character [Inscribed]
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] OWEN, Robert
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Third Edition. Octavo (25cm.); later 19th-century green pebbled cloth; 48pp. Cloth boards bumped at corners, added endpapers causing considerable browning to title page and final leaf of text, some light spotting throughout textblock, else a Very Good, still quite sound copy. Inscribed by Owen at head of title page: "With the... Read More
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Sometime
by [UTOPIAN FICTION] HERRICK, Robert
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [10], 338pp. Hint of sunning to spine, subtle fading to topstain, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly shelfworn, with a few small tears and a dampstain... Read More
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Ten Men of Money Island or, The Primer of Finance
by [UTOPIAN FICTION] [TAX REFORM] NORTON, S.F. [Seymour F.]
Chicago: By the Author, 1894. Revised Edition. 12mo (20cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 93,[1]pp; illus. Text is tanned and a bit brittle at the edges, neat splits to front wrapper above and below the staples, with several tiny tears, and a few slivers missing from wrapper extremities, particularly at preliminary and terminal leaves; Good, complete copy. A tax reform... Read More
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Ten Men of Money Island or, The Primer of Finance
by [UTOPIAN FICTION] [TAX REFORM] NORTON, S.F. [Seymour F.]
Girard, KS: Appeal Publishing Company, 1902. Revised Edition. Octavo (18.75cm); original pictorial wrappers; [5],6-96pp; illus. Light wear and toning to spine and wrapper extremities, with shallow loss to base of spine, a short split to upper spine, and some faint creasing to upper right corners; Very Good. A tax reform utopia, originally published serially in the Chicago Sentinel between... Read More
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Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to the Industrious Producers
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] MACLURE, William
New-Harmony, IN: Printed at the School Press, 1831. First Edition. Second (and best) issue, text extended to p. 640. Two volumes in one; octavo (24cm.); original muslin-backed boards, printed spine label, leaves untrimmed; [4],640pp. Boards rubbed with some brief exposure at corners and upper cover fore-edge, spine and joints cracked but holding, paper flaw to front pastedown from partially... Read More
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A Choice of Stars: Stories of Nigeria
by UZODINMA, E.C.C. [Edmund Chukuemeka Chieke]
Ikeja, Nigeria: Longman Nigeria, 1973. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 118, [2]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, with faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Collection of tales from different parts of Nigeria, mostly centered around tribal warfare, history, rituals and customs.
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Student Freedom in American Higher Education
by VACCARO, Louis C.; James Thayne Covert (eds)
[New York]: Teachers College Press, 1969. Octavo (24cm). Pink cloth in magenta dust jacket; x,165,[1]pp; ads to rear jacket panel. Ownership stamps of Samuel E. Kellams to endleaves. Pinpoint rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Very Good or better. A discussion of student self-governance and reactions to cultural shifts of the... Read More
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Sacrifice
by VACHSS, Andrew
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's red card wraps titled in black to spine and front cover. 255pp + [2pp] additional material. Clean, bright and sharp, a near fine example. Publisher's promotional ephemera and review letter laid in at the front. An uncorrected proof of the sixth Burke novel, featuring Vachss' steely, vengeful... Read More
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