1825, ISBN: e122fdc08a9718ad0b3493446c0ca679

[SC: 56.53], [PU: E. Bliss & E. White, New York], SOCIALISM, SOCIALIST, UTOPIA, UTOPIAN,ENGLISH, BRITISH, NEW HARMONY, LANARK, PMM, PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, Stated "First American ed… More...

[SC: 56.53], [PU: E. Bliss & E. White, New York], SOCIALISM, SOCIALIST, UTOPIA, UTOPIAN,ENGLISH, BRITISH, NEW HARMONY, LANARK, PMM, PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, Stated "First American edition." (Issued the same year as an edition published in Cincinnati by Luman Watson, which may precede it, priority unknown.) vi, [13]-178 pp. Bound in later plain boards with typed spine label. A homely copy with chipping to head, splitting along spine edges, wear to paste downs. Contents Very Good, legible with occasional foxing, former owner's name on front free endpaper, two dog-eared pages, small hole in rear endpaper. An uncommon work of utopian, pre-Marxist socialism, written by the Welsh founder of the model industrial New Lanark community. In 1824 Owen arrived in New York already a celebrity in the communitarian movement. The following January he purchased a pre-existing town in Indiana and began to promote it as a utopian model community, New Harmony; this work helped spread his ideas quickly. Carter and Muir in Printing and the Mind of Man called this "the first practical statement of socialist doctrine" [PMM 271]. Williams Part I 6.<

1972, ISBN: e122fdc08a9718ad0b3493446c0ca679

London: MacMillan. 1972. Hardcover. 8vo (5.75 x 8.75") , 184pp, vg/vg. Dust jacket a little grubby and price-clipped, grey boards, a little worn, esp. On spine where title is fadin… More...

London: MacMillan. 1972. Hardcover. 8vo (5.75 x 8.75") , 184pp, vg/vg. Dust jacket a little grubby and price-clipped, grey boards, a little worn, esp. On spine where title is fading. "Essays on the formation of the human character, perparatory to the development of a plan for gradually ameliorating the condition of mankind". ., MacMillan, 1972, 0<