Planning.- Chambless (Edgar) Roadtown, New York, 1910 § Ballou (Adin) History of the Hopedale Community, portrait, hinges weak, Lowell, Mass., 1897 § Lockwood (George B.) The New Harmony Movement, plates, 4pp. advertisements at end, New York, 1905 § Hale (Edward E.) Sybaris and other Homes, Boston, 1869 § [Bassett (E.B.)], "Beta". The Model Town, water-stained, lacking front free endpaper, Cambridge, Mass., 1869 § Bellamy (Edward) Looking Backward 2000-1887, three hundred and ninety-fourth thousand, Boston & New York, 1889; Equality, second edition, ownership stamp to title, browning to two leaves of preface, New York, 1897, all but the last two first editions, original cloth, the first blocked in white and with colour illustration mounted on upper cover (slight wear to white lines of border), all a little rubbed, the fifth stained; and another, 8vo (8)

⁂ All proposals for or accounts of American utopias and communities. The first, Roadtown, proposes a linear city running through the countryside with rising levels of railway, offices & housing with a promenade along the top; the third is an account of Robert Owen's New Harmony community in Indiana, America's first secular utopian experiment; Sybaris is a utopian satire on American society while Bellamy's novel Looking Backward and its sequel Equality influenced Ebenezer Howard in his ideas of the garden city.