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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Oneida Community) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
First four issues of The American Socialist |
| Place: |
Oneida, NY |
| Publisher: |
Oneida Association |
| Date: |
1876 |
| Item # : |
208570 |
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| Sale Number |
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424 |
| Lot Number |
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43 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
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| Description: |
| 4 issues, including: Vol. I, Nos. 1-4 (March 30, 1876-April 20, 1876). Edited by John H. Noyes. Each are 8 pages. 16x11½, printed weekly. |
| The first four issues of the periodical of the once promising American Utopian experiment, the Oneida Community, which flourished for over 30 years under the leadership of its founder, John Noyes, editor of the above. Also known as "Bible Communists" or "Perfectionists" the group was notorious for a controversial ideal, the complex marriage, wherein every man was mated to every woman and vice-versa, which was intended for procreative causes. Though famed for a crafty invention, a certain steel-trap, the group lost societal approval and was met with harsh criticism by their neighbors over the issue of complex marriage around the time of this publication. The subtitle of the journal reads "Devoted to the Enlargement and Perfection of Home," but at the heart of the articles are workers and "the common good." |
| Condition: |
| Disbound copies with stabholes in the gutter margin, light wear about the edges, but only lightly foxed, thus very good, scarce first issues. |
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