San Francisco: Performing Arts Social Society, Inc., 1987. A scarce single issue of this quarterly computer journal associated with the controversial Kerista commune. The journal’s stated purpose was to “foster the use of computers in improving the human condition in the 21st century,” but it also served to market the..... More
Madison: The History of Wisconsin's People Project, [1973]. An 11” x 17” thread-bound calendar printed in color by the RPM Printing Collective. In Fine condition except for a small pen squiggle between the columns of each page and on the rear cover. Three copies in OCLC at the Univ. of..... More
n.p. n.p., [190-?]. A scarce document that includes the background, beliefs and purpose, Constitution, rules and regulations of the Worlds Comrades, a Tribe, a freethought utopian group, that according to the front wrapper was founded by a William Hetrick. The first half of the document contains a lengthy message from..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., ©1937. Third printing. The autobiography of Pierrepont Noyes (1850-1959), the son of Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes, which details his early life in the experimental colony. Oneida was founded in 1848 as a perfectionist communal society, although it abandoned many of its most..... More
n.p. Co-Operative College, Manchester, 1938. First edition. Quarto-size. Side-stapled & glued, illustrated tan wrappers; 144 mimeographed pages with text on recto only. Scarce issue of the magazine of the Co-Operative College located in Manchester, England, which was founded in 1919 and still operating today. A Very Good+ copy with a...... More