Christian Socialism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine. Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States,… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1985. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); light brown boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 137pp. Spine ends are gently nudged, faint toning to page margins, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced £8.95 net) in Fine condition. Author's first novel and winner of the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. US Edition, uncorrected bound galleys. Octavo (21cm); lime green wrappers, titled in black on the cover. 137pp. Light wear only, about Fine. Author's first novel and winner of the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. "The twilight world of adolescent guilt and and rebellion seething with repressed… Read more about this item

[Bristol]: Society of Socialist Clergy and Ministers (S.S.C.M.), (1946). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. 12mo (19cm); printed paper wrappers; 13pp. Mild toning and corner-creasing; Very Good. On the role of the Church of England in post-War world affairs. Outlines a Christian Socialist approach to pacification following the "Fascist hangover." The author was a prominent socialist, an Anglican clergyman and… Read more about this item

Brattleboro: Published by the Author, 1849. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered cloth, pale peach endpapers; xii,[13]-432pp. Light shelf wear, shallow chipping at spine ends, some foxing to textblock, else Very Good or better. Vitriolic exposé on the career of the utopian socialist John Humphrey Noyes, published a year after his expulsion from Putney, Vermont. Noyes… Read more about this item

Putney, VT, 1843-45. Unbroken run of forty-eight biweekly issues, comprising Vol. III, no. 1 (Feb. 15, 1843) to Vol. IV, no.24 (Feb. 22, 1845). Folio (42cm) In contemporary binding of quarter sheep over marbled boards. Expected external rubbing and wear; internally crisp, clean and unmarked. Bi-monthly organ of Noyes's community of Bible Communists, a successor publication to The Witness.… Read more about this item

New York: Humboldt Publishing Co, [1891]. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's cream decorative wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,[2],160,[2],[6](ads)pp.; three folding chart plates. A few small losses to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good, lovely but fragile copy. Cheap abridged edition issued as The Social Science Library No. 1, Jan., 1891. Publisher's advertisement on rear cover… Read more about this item

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.

[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 about this item

New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth, silver foil spine, in red and black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[5],303pp. Jacket rather dust-soiled and worn along extremities, including several closed tears and shallow chipping, including at spine crown; foxing along flap folds; corners bumped and spine silver starting to flake, else Near Very Good in a Good… Read more about this item

[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.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards; xv, 205,[2]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Presumed remainder issue, with the Swann Sonnenschein sheets in a binding which bears the Allen & Unwin slug at base of spine. Fresh copy of this pioneering work on child welfare by the noted Fabian socialist.

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… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo. Original printed thick-paper wrappers; xvii, 450pp. Mild external toning and wear, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title, dated 1956. McColgan a Catholic priest from Boston; this was his doctoral dissertation, a scholarly study of the career of reformer and social welfare advocate Joseph Tuckerman.… Read more about this item

Kenwood [NY], 1897. First Edition. Octavo; self-wraps; 8pp. A fine copy. Replies, by a former resident, to "Monsieur [Auguste?] Fabre", answering questions regarding the disbanding of the Oneida Community. "I believe that the first cause of the dissolution of the Oneida Community was the plan and purpose of God...a second cause was the intense opposition or antagonism between the… Read more about this item

New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in darker green; [8],314pp. Spine quite toned, else Very Good and sound. Proposal for municipal collectivism, federal democracy, and political pluralism by Christian socialist and founder of the "Church of the Social Revolution." White was by this time an ex-member… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Second Edition, Revised. Octavo. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; xi, 404pp. Straight, tight, Very Good or better, free of markings or significant wear. Ownership signature ("TJ Ailey") to front endpaper. Social and economic justice from the viewpoint of a Catholic theologian.

Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1919. First Thus. 12mo (13cm). Original gray paper wrappers; 22pp. Woodcut device to front cover, repeated as tail-piece on p.22. Slightly soil and foxing to cover wrappers; text fresh and unmarked; Very Good. Issued as Pepler's "Welfare Handbook" no. 6. The woodcut cover device is not attributed. Not in Gill.

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 examination… Read more about this item

Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First Edition. Slim octavo; buff printed wrappers; 21pp + 4pp publisher's ads. Covers trimmed short (see note below); mild wear and creasing to wrapper edges, still Very Good or better. Apparently a mixed issue: covers are Gill's third variant (without the crossed-out price), but title page (rules) and pagination (p.5) conform to the earlier state.… Read more about this item