[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated report on Utopia in Maine, 1901

[Bob Petrilla]

Maine, Lewiston / Peck, Bradford and others. THE CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICA, LEWISTON, MAINE. THE GREAT 20TH CENTURY MOVEMENT. "A TRUST FOR
THE PEOPLE." Lewiston, Maine: CAA Press, 1901. First Edition. pp: 42, (2),
(4), (1); 7 full-page views of plants and stores, 7 portraits from
photographs. The views include a plant, a store, a restaurant, an athletic
building, and apartment houses proposed to occupy a new town at the center
of the Association's farm land.  This is a deaccessioned library copy with
only a small bookplate and discard stamp on endpaper. 7.75" x 5" Very Good.
Gilt-stamped Cloth.
The Workers Co-operative Association is described as "The Boston enterprise
for giving work to the unemployed." This booklet lists affiliated Boston
organizations, the Co-Worker's Fraternity and the Workers' Co-Operative
Association, and their officers. At the end is a blank Application for
Membership" meant to be filled in and removed. This copy also contains a
leaf of text, backed by an Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem, as well as a four-page
leaflet promoting the Association, and a slip of text suggested as an
insert for local newspapers. WorldCat locates only the Huntington Library
copy, which does not include these additions. Bradford Peck (1853-1935),
Lewiston entrepreneur and dreamer, also authored a utopian novel, THE WORLD
A DEPARTMENT STORE: A Story of Life under a Cooperative System.  $250.00

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