[Rarebooks] FS: ALL ABOARD FOR UTOPIA

[Norman Kane]

These are all hardbound, first editions in very good or better condition unless otherwise described:


SAXTON, MARK.  HAVOC IN ISLANDIA.  Boston, 1982.   Dust wrapper just slightly rubbed. $20

SAXTON.  THE TWO KINGDOMS. A NOVEL OF ISLANDIA.  Boston, 1979. First. Sale stickers on d.w. $10

HUXLEY, ALDOUS.  ISLAND, A NOVEL.  N.Y., (1962).  Nice  D.W.  1st US edn. (Drug interest). $25

ROBERTSON, CONSTANCE NOYES.  ONEIDA COMMUNITY: THE BREAKUP 1876-1881.  Syracuse, 1972. In a 
     price-clipped (?), creased pictorial d.w. $10

SANDERS, GEORGE A.  REALITY: OR LAW AND ORDER VS. ANARCHY AND SOCIALISM. A REPLY TO EDWARD 
     BELLAMY’S “LOOKING BACKWARD” & “EQUALITY.”  Cleveland, 1898.  Light wear.  Armorial bookplate of 
     Wm. A. Blair. $40

ORWELL, GEORGE [Pseud.]  ANIMAL FARM.  N.Y., (1946). 1st US edn. The dust wrapper has just slight wear
     at the extremities of the spine. Laid in are Arthur Schlesinger’s NY Times review and illustrations from the
     animated classic.  $385

HARVEY. W. H.  A TALE OF TWO NATIONS.  Chicago: Coin Publishing Co., cop. 1894. Original pictorial wraps, 
     good plus copy. “Second edition. 100 thousand” on cover. Novel concerning monetary policy, depicting 
     scenes of near-Civil War and economic disaster. See Wright III-2566 (2 copies only). No doubt used as
     propaganda during the Election of 1896.)  $20

DOUGLAS, MARK [Pseud.]  CAN LOVE SIN ?  Phila.: Peterson, (1889). First edition.  Wright III-1622 (2 copies
     only).  Original blue cloth, free end paper gone, otherwise very good.  (Concerns a Senator from Oregon. A Portland millionaire seeks to distribute his wealth for the general good.) $40

[HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY].  CRYSTAL AGE.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.  Half morocco, just slightly
     rubbed.  His scarce second book, a Utopian novel, listed in Bleiler.  Payne A2a. Wilson 2. No advts. $575

THE STORY OF MY DICTATORSHIP.  WITH PREFACE BY WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.  N.Y.: Sterling Publishing Co.,
     1894. Original worn wrappers, paper fragile. The scarce first U.S. edn.  Written in aid of the Single Tax 
     Theory of Henry George.  Attributed to Lewis H. Berens & Ignatius Singer. $40

HARMONY, COMMEMORATING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE BOROUGH OF HARMONY PENNSYLVANIA. 1938. 
     Compiled by A. I. Stewart & J. O. Gilbert.  Large 8vo, original pictorial wraps, 48 page, many illus. 
     Centennial program in pictorial self-wraps laid in. $50

THE WHITE SLAVES OF MONOPOLIES; OR JOHN FITZ PATRICK, THE MINER, SOLDIER AND WORKINGMAN’S  
     FRIEND.  Harrisburg: John S. Hart, Printer & Binder, 1884.   Half morocco, lightly rubbed, 
     371 pages. Fronts. & illustrations of a picket line, cheap immigrant labor, &c. (Proletarian novel; 
     labor unrest in Pennsylvania and the Molly Maguires.)  Scarce.  $200

FELLMAN, MICHAEL.  THE UNBOUNDED FRAME. FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY IN  19th CENTURY AMERICAN
      UTOPIANISM.  Westport, (1973).  D.w. $10

AMIS, KINGSLEY.  NEW MAPS OF HELL. A SURVEY OF SCIENCE FICTION.  N.Y., (1960). 1st US edn. D.w. $50

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