Oneida Community 1848-1901 by [ONEIDA COMMUNITY] - 1901?]

[n.p.]: Manawatu Herald, 1908. Broadside (22x14cm). Printed on one side of white paper. Rubbed, with small creases and tiny tears at edges: Very Good. Anecdotes about "Father Noyes," founder of the Oneida Community in upstate New York, describing his charisma and "queen-bee quality of attracting all to him"--a useful trait in the leader of a commune. Not in DARE; not in WELLS. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.

[Oneida, NY]: [Oneida Community], [189-?]. Pamphlet. [7p.], wraps, 3.25x5 inches, wraps worn, creased, and stained. Attributed by OCLC [WorldCat] to the Oneida Community - which dissolved itself into a joint stock company in 1881. Internal references to the "Primitive Church" do indicate that it was at least influenced by the religious views of John Humphrey Noyes.

Oneida Community, Ltd., Oneida, New York, 1923. Pamphlet. Used - Very Good. Copyright 1923. (19) pages. Halftones: Dinner Service of Mrs. Alexander Morton, New York; Dining Room of Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont; Dinner, Luncheon, Breakfast Tables; 24 silver pieces in 5 patterns. 7 x 5", pictorial wrapper. VG.

Kenwood, [NY]: [Oneida Community], 1903. First Edition. First printing. Pamphlet (20x13.5cm) on white paper; 4pp. Apparently never circulated: Near Fine. Seymour, an original member of the Oneida Community, describes the Community's practice of complex marriage, as a response to an account of NYC prostitution. He asks whether the "Oneida Community's method of bringing the sexes together is preferable [. . . to] either the legal or the illicit methods that are the inevitable conditions of ordinary society?" WELLS p.16. Not in DARE. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.

[NY]: [Oneida Community], [n.d. but ca 1886]. Single sheet (20x13cm) steel engraving. Slightly rubbed with minor dirt to extremities: Very Good. Vignetted head-and-shoulders portrait of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), founder of the Oneida Community, as a mature man. J. C. Buttre (1821-1893) was a prolific line engraver, based in New York from 1841 (Stauffer, American Engravers I, p. 38-9). Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.

Oneida: Office of the American Socialist, 1876. Hardcover. 96p., first edition, lacking original wraps, replaced with generic boards (no library markings) and binders tape, front pastedown endpaper lightly foxed, internally good condition. Mutual criticism was used by the Oneida Community in formal meetings, where members got to tell each other their 'true' feelings and observations.

Paperback / softback. New.

[n.p.]: [Oneida Community], [n.d.; ca 1880 or later]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Stapled pamphlet in white paper wraps, printed on front; [ii], 14pp. Discoloration around staples, minor soiling to rear, gently rubbed, but overall: Very Good. An account of John Humphrey Noyes' theological development and of the Perfectionist community he established in the 1840s at Putney, Vermont. (The community relocated to Oneida, NY, following Noyes' 1847 arrest for adultery.) The pamphlet is undated, but cites other publications as late as 1877. Not in Dare or Wells. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.

Porcupine Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Wallingford, CT: Wallingford Printing Company, [n.d. but ca. 1876]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet with title cover; 16pp. Minor dirt to edges, else Very Good. Letters documenting struggles with epidemics in the Wallingford Community, a branch of the Oneida Community with a printing press. The community debated removing from Wallingford, but remained to maintain their printing operation, and fought the disease by acquiring a Turkish bath. The letters claim that the community's spiritual struggle "substantially expelled the spiritual virus (ignorantly called malaria)" (p.16). NOT IN WELLS; NOT IN DARE. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.