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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PLEASE READ FULL DESCRIPTION. First edition (no additional printings listed). Rebound into 20th century blue cloth, 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches, index, 439 pp + ads, illustrated with black and white drawings. Hardcover, very good. Ex-library. Lightly age yellowed, thin paper has nicks and chips along edges of a dozen or so leaves, otherwise, apart from library marks, tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Sociology; history; religion; Shakers; Oneida Community; economics; Americana; communism; 0 pages
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. hardcover Illustrated Hinges tight, bright gilt-lettered spine nicks ear to spine end 439 pp. + ads pencil owner name, vintage store stamp
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in pretty good shape, clean and unmarked throughout. The boards have some mild rubbing, spine ends are worn some, corners bumped a bit and have some wear, just a touch of edgewear at the foreword spine edge mostly. Bit of occasional light foxing. Threads are a bit loose in some page block sections, not bad. Gilt is intact on the front and spine. Previous owner put a nice bookplate inside the front cover.
Seller: Kingship Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 439 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to boards intact. Including detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, The Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, and other communistic societies. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to boards. Heavy fraying and chipping to spine as well. Front hinge fairly weak. Heavy age-toning to text block edges. Bumping to boards. Light chipping to front flyleaf. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A scarce copy. Record # 951909
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 439p; 8p advertisements. REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in ivory cloth. Very good condition overall. The binding is cockeyed, but secure. Portions of the original cloth cover are incorporated into the front board and spine. The edges of the frontispiece tissue are worn. Pages age-toned; occasional pale smudges in the margins. Otherwise, text unmarked. An early history of American utopian communities. Illustrated with lots of black and white engravings. Howes N-177.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$132.25 + shipping
Description: mit zahlreichen Holzstich-Abbildungen auf Tafeln und im Text, VIII, 439, (7 Seiten Literaturverzeichnis) ORDENTLICHES, FESTES EXEMPLAR dieses seltenen Titels, lediglich die ersten Seiten vereinzelt leicht fleckig. Fine copy of the first edition, only the first pages a little bit stained. Sprache: Englisch 8°, braunes O Ln mit goldgeprägtem Rücken und Rückentitel
Seller: Antiquariat Im Baldreit, Baden-Baden, Germany
Price: US$142.50 + shipping
Description: 439, 7p., front., illus., map, first edition, original brown cloth binding, closed tear at head of spine, light wear at spine ends. *Howes N177a. "Perhaps the best treatment of most of the early American communities. Nordhoff visited a very large number himself when many were still flourishing." *Egbert p. 95.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
NORDHOFF, Charles. Communistic Societies of the United States, from Personal Visit. , 1875.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: NORDHOFF, Charles. Communistic Societies of the United States, from Personal Visit and Observation: Including Detailed Accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, and Other Existing Societies, Their Religious Creeds, Social Practices, Numbers, Industries, and Present Condition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 1st ed. 439pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth. Slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, else very good. Howes N-177. Adams: Radical Literature, p. 47. An indispensable source for the study of communal societies.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 439 pp. + ads, Hinges tight; bright gilt-lettered spine., Full title reads as follows: "Communistic Societies of The United States; From Personal Visit and Observation: Including Detailed Accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, The Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, and Other Existing Societies, Their Religous Creeds, Social Practices, Numbers, industries and Present Condition." Nearly fine copy in the original brown cloth
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Nordhoff (grandfather of the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Nordhoff) toured major Utopian settlements: the Shakers, the Amana Colony, the Perfectionists, the Icarians, and many others -- in order to compile this large work providing extensive information on the religious beliefs, poetry, architecture, internal politics, living arrangements and sexual practices of the communities examined herein. Large 8vo, brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine, plain endpapers (assume this is the "cheap" binding). 439pp. plus [8] pages of ads; 16 plates, map, illustrations in the text. Good to very good with cloth fraying at spine ends corners and general soiling to covers.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green cloth with gilt titles and figures to spine and front, publisher's blindstamped logo to rear, no jacket, 8vo. Apparent first edition with 1874 copyright, 1875 to title page, in one of the cloth variants. 439pp. + 6pp. publisher's catalogue + ad. Frontis of "Views in Zoar." 37 illustrations within. VG. Moderate edgewear all around with surface loss, loss of cloth to board at tips of lightly bumper corners and along one 1/2" strip lower rear edge. Only mild rubbing to deep green cloth elsewhere. Mild rubbing to "United States" on spine title, but all gilt still present and only mildly dulled; gilt bright and sharp on front. Softening with creases and mild fraying to spine ends. Freize band at lower edge reglued along 1/2" strip toward front hinge (entire band 2 1/2"; no residue showing). Hinges strong, with possibility for eventual slight separation to upper 2" front on inside (now showing light play and slit to endpaper over gutter)., Binding tight, fine and square. Pages mildly toned but clean and unmarked. Sheliving soil to page edges (fairly heavy to uppers). Not ex-lib.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: Publisher's green cloth boards lettered in gilt; laid endpapers; 439, (8)pp; illus; map. Engraved bookplate of Frederic Rowland Marvin to front pastedown. Bit of minor fraying to spine ends; a bright, Near Fine copy. Nordhoff's survey of utopian communities, based entirely on personal visits, remains the most reliable and thorough examination by a contemporary observer, providing detailed and generally sympathetic descriptions of life at Bethel, Aurora, Icaria, Amana, Oneida, Zoar, and the various Shaker communities. This copy with the bookplate of American clergyman & writer Frederic Rowland Marvin (1847-1918), author of several undistinguished volumes of essays and verse. MILLER 138. DARE 143. HOWES N177.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece and 16 plates with 38 illustrations in the text. viii, [1], 9-439, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stammhammer I, 159 Original cloth, small hole in spine, else fine Frontispiece and 16 plates with 38 illustrations in the text. viii, [1], 9-439, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1238.04 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, frontispiece and 16 plates, illustrated; publisher's cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. First edition of this influential and extensive study of the communitarian ideal in the United States. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) emigrated to the United States as a child, and went on to have a varied career as sailor, journalist and writer. His grandson Charles Bernard Nordhoff is the famous historian of the Bounty. In The Communistic Societies of the United States, Nordhoff recounts his travels to many of the socialistic societies which became popular in the nineteenth century, most famously the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, the Rappite township at 'Harmony' and the Oneida Community. As Nordhoff points out in his Introduction, he hoped that a study of these communities might provide 'useful hints toward the solution of the labor question'. Throughout, the work displays a thoroughness and lack of hysteria which supports his claim to have 'thought it best to give at first an impartial and not unfriendly account of each commune.' .
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's cloth, spine and front cover titles in bright gilt. Extensive illustrations. Internally about fine.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.