Utopian News [Collection of Four Issues]

  • Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935
By The Utopian Society of America
Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Four issues, including Vol. 2, nos. 6, 15, 17, & 25. Folios; self-wrappers; mixed pagination; text in three columns. Rather brittle with chips, toning, and short tears; previous mail folds; wear heavier to No. 17 with spine largely perished; pencil scribbling to front of No. 24. else a Good to Very Good lot.

Includes news of the New Deal, Father Coughlin, and the rise of Hitler, and a section featuring "Songs of Utopia." Rear of No. 17 includes "Declaration of Aims of the Utopian Society," which notes that "the machine is man's good friend," but continues, "we recognize the evil results, however, to both producer and consumer of uncoordinated production." The Society's weekly appears to have run through 1936, according to records in OCLC. No copies in retail as of October 2024. .

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