Search Results: Utopian movements and literature from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Chicago: Self-published by the author, 1946. Hardcover. 251p., cloth-covered boards, illus., corners bumped, front board stained, rubberstamp on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dust jacket. History of the Utopian religious colony founded by a group of Swedish immigrants led by Erik Jansson. Jansson was murdered in 1850 by a former colonist.

Buffalo, NY: [Divine Light Mission?], 1973. paperback. 7x8.5 inch handbill; slight uneven toning on pictorial handbill, otherwise very good. Advertisement for nightly discourses on the Guru, held in Buffalo.

City of David, MI: n.pub, 1992. ix, 142p., very good paperback, illus., 8.5x11 inches. History of the utopian religious community, perhaps best known for its barnstorming baseball team.

Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society; National Historic Communal Societies Association, 1998. 12p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, staples rusted, address label on rear wrap, remains of tape used to hold shut for mailing on both wraps else good condition. Program for the conference, with two photos of the Zoar community in 1890.

Sunnyvale, CA: National Icarian Heritage Society, 1988. Pamphlet. iv, 47p., staplebound pamphlet. Very good but for old inventory number and price penned in corner of front wrap.

Berkeley: [University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare], 1966. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 8.5x10.5 inch library bound boards; rubberstamp on front board, title written on spine, "thesis" in pencil on front board, otherwise in very good condition.

New York: The Free Press, 1980. Hardcover. xxiv, 455p., illustrated with diagrams and statistical tables, first edition, very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dust jacket.

Upper Galilee, Israel: Kfar Blum Guest House, 1994. Paperback. 160p., wraps, very good condition, illus., 6.75x9.5 inches. Stories about life in his Kibbutz. Gelb was a founder of the Habonim Labor Zionist Youth organization and active since the 1940s in the Kfar Blum Kibbutz.

Gdansk: Wyspa Institute of Art :: Wyspa Progress Foundation, 2007. Hardcover. 238p., illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued; b&w photos., text in both Polish and English, in very good condition.

Los Angeles: Richard Fairfield, 1973. Newsletter. Twenty issues of the four-page, 8.5x11 inch newsletter devoted to communes, de-schooling, group marriage, the back-to-the-land movement, etc. Generally with postal markings on rear panel, neatly fold-creased. Issues present are numbers 12-27, 29-32.

Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1982. Hardcover. 373p., illustrated with a diagram or two, hardbound in 9x6 inch white cloth boards enclosed in library-style glazed onlay, a preservative against mishandling. Ex library with some stamping and the remnant of a spine label, otherwise sound, clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. Munchener Universitats-schriften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie.. Band 12.

Sabbathday Lake, Maine: [The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake], nd. Postcard. 3.5x5.3 inch postcard; faintly toned, slightly creased. Good.

New York: The Tabard Inn Press, 1913. Hardcover. 398p., hardbound in 7.5x5 inch spinach-green cloth boards with white titling, in dust jacket. A rather pretty book slightly worn along bottom edge of boards (minute spots of card show at corner-tips) with crimping to tail rim, top rim also crimped but very lightly, cloth bright and lettering very sound with no sign of erosion, top edge dust-soiled, front hinge cracked with an inch of fabric showing, the ffep bears an odd gash one inch long, titlepage is marked in blind with a nice old blindstamp. Textblock and casing are not exactly tight but item sits quite squarely. The dust jacket panels are intact but the matte paperstock is dirty, chipped and edgeworn and reinforced inside and out with old document tape (see below for publisher's comment on dj). A good copy: relatively sound, internally clean. From text, at p.392: "..we are indebted to the German mind for this most stupendous and at the same time most practical dream in human history. It is also… Read More

Clinton, NY: Richard W. Cooper Press, 2006. Magazine. 43p., 5.5x8.5 inch wraps; photos., in very good condition.

Fullerton, CA: Associated Councils of Social Engineers, 1964. Newsletter. Thirteen issues of the 8.5x11 inch mimeographed newsletter, generally moderate toning with the occasional penciled notation, many with postal markings and mailing address; last issue has final page loose but present. Undated, but the earliest issue here refers to the 1960 presidential election (lamenting Kennedy's Catholicism), and the last issue urges the reader to buy "They Dare Not Call it Treason" (an error for the 1964 bestseller None Dare Call It Treason). Issues present are vol. 3 nos. 3-7 of The Analyst, and vol. 4 nos. 1-7 and vol. 5 no. 2 of The Equalitarian-Analyst. The format and style of writing suggests a connection to the earlier Equalitarian Bulletin, a utopian journal issued by the Provisional Equalitarian Club that drew much from Technocracy, the IWW, and Christian economics. However, by this point the political perspective, while still syncretic and difficult to categorize, borrows a bit more from the… Read More

Jemeppe, Belgium, n.d.. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, mild foxing and handling wear. An introduction to the sect of Antoinism, formally established in 1910 by Louis-Joseph Antoine. His religious movement melds aspects of Catholicism with spiritualism, reincarnation, and healing, including dietary practices such as vegetarianism and temperance. "The Father's Teaching is Christ's Teaching revealed at this epoch by the faith.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1990. Paperback. 175p.. wraps, frontis., black and white illus., very good condition. Lost Utopias / Number One.

North Charleston, NC: Booksurge, LLC, 1998. 346p., wraps, light handling wear, front wrap lightly soiled, else very good condition. Novel about a reunited 1970s commune in the Ozarks.

Salem, OR: Winning the World, 1944. 24p., staplebound wraps, neatly ex-library, stamp on cover indicating it was received by the NY State Library on July 14, 1944. Lockley's name stamped in blind above title. Tract on world peace through "non-resisting service in the spirit of constructive co-operation," with eight co-contributors listed. In addition to Lockley, a journalist, the others include a local judge, a printer, a former hospital superintendant, etc.

Sunnyvale, CA: National Icarian Heritage Society, 1994. Pamphlet. iv, 52p., staplebound pamphlet. Very good but for old inventory number and price penned in corner.