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Alpaca

Alpaca

by HUNT, H.L.

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Dallas: H.L. Hunt Press, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [2],183pp.; illus. including photographs and facsimiles. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, cancel "Amendments which have been suggested for the Constitution of Alpaca" stapled to front free endpaper with minor subsequent rust stains, else Very Good or better. Copyright page lists this as a first printing, January, 1960, with a Spanish Edition available in March. The poker player-turned-oil tycoon's right-wing utopian fantasy, in which the ideal society would function on a graduated scale of suffrage, the oldest, richest, and most ambitious citizens getting the most votes. Thus, according to the author, "Self-government will at last be an actuality without oration, declaration, demagoguery, shouts and drum-beating. Instead, there will be the fire of patriotism of a people who are sovereign with the confidence gained through elevating the best-fitted to the highest positions in… Read More
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American Communities: Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, The...

American Communities: Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, The Shakers, Oneida, Wallingford, and the Brotherhood of the New Life

by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] HINDS, William Alfred

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Oneida: Office of the American Socialist, 1878. First edition. Octavo (22.5cm). Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 176pp; frontis, [2] inserted leaves of plates (wood engravings). Verso of final text leaf contains advertisements for two other Oneida publications. Mild external rubbing, touch of wear at base of spine, still a tight, straight, Very Good to Near Fine copy, nicely preserved. 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 nice condition. HOWES H503.
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Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone

Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone

by SAGGITTARUS [pseud. of Carl Shears]

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Washington DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); photo-illustrated wrappers; xiv,[2],198pp. Fine, unread copy. Novel set in the not-too-distant future, describing "The Rise to Power of America's Black Dictator General Hambone." Pseudonymously authored by the founder of the Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company. Uncommon utopian/dystopian Black Power novel; no others found in commerce (2015); 17 copies located in OCLC.
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The Bishop Hill Colony: a Religious Communistic Settlement in Henry County, Illinois [Johns...

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.

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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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The Count-Down to Black Genocide

The Count-Down to Black Genocide

by SAGGITTARUS [pseud. of Carl Shears]

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Washington DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, 1973. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); white photo-illustrated wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[1],113,[2](ads)pp; title page illustrated with fictional map of Florida divided into "Afro-America," "Neutral," and "Florida." Fine and unread. Dystopian novel set in the years approaching 2000, looking back on a fictional genocide committed against the black population in the United States, set off by the energy crisis. An alternative narrative to the novel published by Saggittarus the following year, Before the Setting Sun, which recounts the rise of America's first black dictator.
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The Dream

The Dream

by WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]

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New York: Macmillan, 1924. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; top edge gilt; 318pp. Tight, clean and Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), somewhat aged with shallow chips along top edge, just Very Good. "The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a future eutopia" (Sargent), set two thousand years in the future but with most of the action taking place, through the device of an extended dream, in Victorian and Edwardian England. SARGENT p.90. CURREY (1979) p.518 (the London edition). BLEILER (1979) p.205.
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Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise, And Other Sketches

Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise, And Other Sketches

by [UTOPIAN FICTION] [TAX REFORM] ELDER, Cyrus; Henry L. Stephens, illus

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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 in particular. LEWIS, p. 57; SARGENT, p. 29; not in NEGLEY.
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Equality

Equality

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] [UTOPIAS] BELLAMY, Edward

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue-gray cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver and black on spine and front cover; viii,412,[8]pp ads. Gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with some faint moisture staining to lower front and rear covers (though contents unaffected); previous owners ink name to front endpaper, with some crinkling to right edge of textblock on a few of the center gatherings; just Very Good. A Socialist single-tax utopia, the sequel to Bellamy's enormously popular Looking Backward 2000-1887. "It argues that economic equality is the cornerstone on which the complete life of an industrial democracy rests - political, intellectual, ethical. Although it emphasizes the place of religion in the world of A.D. 2000, society needs no organized church or ordained ministry" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1-7). BAL 967; SARGENT p.56; NEGLEY 81.
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False Belief About the Origin of Evil, Salvation from All Sin, and the Second Advent, the True...

False Belief About the Origin of Evil, Salvation from All Sin, and the Second Advent, the True Obstacle to Revivals [drop title]

by [SEYMOUR, H.J.]

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[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.
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The Flaming Sword - Vol.XIX, Nos.30-52 (January 2, 1906 - June 5, 1906)
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The Flaming Sword - Vol.XIX, Nos.30-52 (January 2, 1906 - June 5, 1906)

by [UTOPIAN COMMUNES] [FLORIDA] "CYRUS / KORESH" (pseud. of Cyrus Reed Teed)

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Estero, FL: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1906. First Edition. 22 quarto issues (31cm); original illustrated wrappers, disbound; 16pp per issue. Holes (with corresponding oxidation) from saddle staples, some offsetting to spine-folds from fabric tape binding, with some light wear and dust-soil to wrappers; No.52 with several tears and toning to rear wrapper; a handful of issues with some light, scattered underlining, else quite clean; Very Good or better. Early run of this periodical edited and written by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, a Utica, NY native and founder of the Koreshan Unity. "Koreshanity," as it was also known, was born in the wake of two related movements: the millenial fervor that swept early-to-mid-19th century central and western New York State, and the utopian communalism that began attracting increasing numbers of adherents during the same period and into the later 19th century." A graduate of Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York, Teed's interests went beyond medicine to… Read More
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Henry Ashton; A Thrilling Story of How the Famous Co-Operative Commonwealth was Established in...

Henry Ashton; A Thrilling Story of How the Famous Co-Operative Commonwealth was Established in Zanland

by [UTOPIAN FICTION] DAGUE, R.A. [Robert Addison]

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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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The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes

The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] STANDERSON, Grantly

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Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1916. First Edition. First printing. Green textured cloth boards, stamped in white on spine and front cover; 538pp. Straight, well-preserved copy, lightly rubbed at board extremities and mildly dusted at text block edges; Very Good to Near Fine, and unusual thus. Uncommon New Thought novel, set in Utah with a strong anti-Mormon subplot. A contemporary review in The Overland Monthly stated that "...the author believes he has a sacred message for the human race; it is clothed in this book for the purpose of reaching many readers." We doubt he succeeded in that purpose; this is one of the more obscure publications from the Chicago socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr, never before seen by us and represented only by some scattered 20 institutional holdings in OCLC (one of which - British Library - incorrectly provides a 1914 publication date). SMITH S-799. FLAKE 8357. Missed by Hannah, despite clear social content; and by Bleiler, despite clear fantasy content; and by Sargent,… Read More
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Islandia

Islandia

by WRIGHT, Austin Tappan (author) and Leonard Bacon (intro.)

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. First Printing, (publisher's colophon on copyright page). Octavo (19.5cm); tan buckram boards decoratively titled in black and gilt on the front cover and spine; map endpapers; green topstain; dustjacket; 1013 pp. Spine ends gently nudged; mild toning to the upper board edges and joints; small spot of finger soil to the half title and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00) with nicks and short tears to the extremities; chip to the crown; mild soil to the rear panel and flap edges; Very Good+. Author's first and only book, published posthumously. "Islandia, a place easily described as a Utopia...[is] an enormous book, ostensibly describing the travels of a visitor to the island and in fact providing an extremely elaborate picture of an invented alternative society and it's richly drawn inhabitants." CLUTE and NICHOLLS, p.1349; SARGENT, p.111; NEGLEY 1215; CURREY, P.557.
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La Cité Future: Essai d'une Utopie Scientifique
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La Cité Future: Essai d'une Utopie Scientifique

by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] [FRANCE] TARBOURIECH, Ernest

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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 a leader of the French Socialist party and law professor at the Collège des Sciences Sociales. Based in part on Paolo Mantegazza's L'Anno 3000 (1897), Tarbouriech's proposal included the sterilization of degenerates, mandatory reporting of pregnancy, and state support in the rearing of unwanted children. The work failed to attract a following in part due to is overly authoritarian tone and "excessively harsh" propositions (William H. Schneir, "Quality and Quantity" (2002), p. 58), though it should be noted in sweetening the deal that the author also described a society in which "Men and women will share on equal… Read More
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Labor and Nation Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1950)

Labor and Nation Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1950)

by [LABOR PERIODICALS] HARDMAN, J.B.S. (ed); Lev LUNTZ (contrib)

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New York: Inter-Union Institute, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 64pp. Covers rubbed, with small losses to extremities (not affecting text); text clean and unmarked; Very Good. An anticommunist but pro-socialist labor periodical which drew articles and influences from across the left-right spectrum of the post-war labor movement. This issue includes what appears to be the first (and possibly only) appearance in English of Russian playwright Lev Luntz's dystopian drama The City of Truth, first published posthumously in Berlin in 1924 (translated by Hannah G. Hardman). The play envisions a society in which children are reared in an environment completely devoid of motherly love -- a theme that would be revisited in a number of mid-century anti-communist dystopias. Luntz died in a Hamburg sanitarium in the same year this work was published, leaving behind a small body of work. He was only 23, but his passing drew commentary from no less a figure than Maxim Gorky,… Read More
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Limbo. A Novel

Limbo. A Novel

by WOLFE, Bernard

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New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover, with foil-stamped decorations in colors; dustjacket; 438pp. Small spot of abrasion at upper edge of rear board; mild ageing to endpapers; still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), bright and whole with a few small closed tears at extremities, VG+. Future dystopia, set in 1990 following a Third World War. "...A fierce attack on 20th century civilization and its constant attempts to find utopia through excision of perceived evils" (Lewis, Utopian Literature in the Pennsylvania State Libraries, p.212). NEGLEY 1208.
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Looking Backward, From the Year 2000

Looking Backward, From the Year 2000

by REYNOLDS, Mack

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Morley, West Yorkshire: The Elmfield Press, 1976. First U.K. Edition. First Impression (and first hardcover edition), preceded by the Ace paperback edition issued in 1973. Octavo; rust-colored paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 237pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light shelfwear and a few faint creases to flaps. Utopian novel with a strong nod to Edward Bellamy's classic 1888 novel Looking Backward.
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Male Continence

Male Continence

by [ONEIDA COMMUNE] NOYES, John Humphrey

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Oneida, NY: Office of the American Socialist, 1877. Third edition (though stated second). Octavo (22cm). Printed pale green wrappers; 32pp. A fresh, apparently uncirculated copy, Near Fine. A singular aspect of Noyes's Pefectionist philosophy, as practiced by his followers at the Oneida commune, was the sanctification of the human sexual bond through the practice of "male continence," i.e. coitus reservatus, or the withholding of the male orgasm during intercourse. The current pamphlet falls somewhat short of elucidating technique (at least to the satisfaction of the uninitiated reader), but does provide, at some length, Noyes's Biblical justifications and his defense of the practice. The first edition appeared in 1866, with the full title, Male Continence: or, Self-Control in Sexual Intercourse. That title having drawn the attention of Noyes's censors, all of the sub-title was dropped from the second edition of 1872 and third edition of 1877 - save the semi-colon, which remained, a mysterious… Read More
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Millennial Light

Millennial Light

by [ONEIDA] SEYMOUR, H[enry] J.

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[s.l.]: [Oneida Community], 1868. 8-page pamphlet. Lightly toned, gently rubbed at edges: Near Fine. Millenialist poem about a vision of the world in 2068, two centuries after the Second Coming in 1868. The future utopia is described as peaceful and environmentally renewed, with "desert sands / Now reclaimed to forest bowers." Seymour also wrote The Oneida Community: A Dialogue. Previously unrecorded: not in OCLC, DARE, WELLS, or GAUSTAD. Full disclosure: Lorne Bair Rare Books is in possession of a substantial remainder of this title.
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My First Days in the White House

My First Days in the White House

by LONG, Huey Pierce

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Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); red textured cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; frontispiece, [8],146,[6]pp; illus. Neat, contemporary owners name to front endpaper, crown gently nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks to extremities, two small losses to crown, and two larger chips along upper edge of rear panel (none affecting lettering); Very Good. Long's posthumously-published political fantasy, imagining a world in which he has won the 1936 Presidential race and begun instituting his populist reform agenda. Long-form fiction proved a perhaps over-elaborate vehicle for campaign propaganda (especially given Long's target audience), and My First Days in the White House did not sell well. Sales were no doubt further curtailed as a result of Long's assassination in September of 1935, one month after formally announcing his Presidential ambitions.… Read More
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