The 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 Publishers, 1875. Hardcover. 439, 7p., front., illus., map, olive 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. (Inventory #: 3025)