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BALLOU, Adin (1803-90). Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True System of Human Society. Hopedale and New York: for the author and Fowlers & Wells, 1854. 8°. Engraved portrait frontispiece (frontispiece very lightly spotted). Contemporary cloth, spine and covers decorated in blind and gilt (spine a little faded, extremities bumped). Provenance: ABIGAIL HEYWOOD, THE AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER (two compliments slips loosely inserted). FIRST EDITION of Ballou's most important work. Ballou founded the utopian Hopedale Community in 1841. His early use of the phrase 'Christian Socialism' in Practical Christian Socialism is highly significant, since no definite movement under that banner existed in the United States until, in the 1870s and '80s, firm links were forged between progressive clergymen and leaders of the fast-growing ranks of organised labour.
MACNAB, Henry Grey (1761-1823). Examen impartial des nouvelles vues de M. Robert Owen, et de ses établissements à New-Lanark en Écosse. Paris, Treutel & Würtz, 1821. 8°. Half title, 2 engraved plates (lacking frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Kent, light marginal waterstaining). Original paper wrappers, manuscript paper lettering-piece (front joint starting to split, head and tail of spine chipped), uncut. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of The New Views of Mr. Owen of Lanark impartially examined. Goldsmiths' 23345; not in Einaudi or Kress.
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MACNAB, Henry Grey (1761-1823). Examen impartial des nouvelles vues de M. Robert Owen, et de ses établissements à New-Lanark en Écosse. Paris, Treutel & Würtz, 1821. 8°. Half title, 2 engraved plates (lacking frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Kent, light marginal waterstaining). Original paper wrappers, manuscript paper lettering-piece (front joint starting to split, head and tail of spine chipped), uncut. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of The New Views of Mr. Owen of Lanark impartially examined. Goldsmiths' 23345; not in Einaudi or Kress.
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