Cat.No: 225947 Social solutions. Translated from the French by Marie Howland. Jean Baptiste André Godin, Marie Howland, as M. Godin.
Social solutions. Translated from the French by Marie Howland
Social solutions. Translated from the French by Marie Howland
Social solutions. Translated from the French by Marie Howland

Social solutions. Translated from the French by Marie Howland

New York: John W. Lovell Company, Publishers, 1886. Hardcover. x, 326, 28p., frontisportrait of Godin, illustrations in text and four folding plates (views & plan), first edition, rear hinge cracked, minor fraying at head and tail of spine, a few pages of very light pencil underlining else good condition.

On the French Familistere, with comments on Fourier and other utopian topics. Appendix is a report on the Familistere at Guise, France done in 1884. As Mari Jo Buhle notes in her bibliography of Women and the American Left "Marie Howland (1836-1921), one of the most remarkable figures in nineteenth-century American radicalism, lived, for those times, a free life and conducted a range of activities that spanned the First International , the Grange, and utopian colonization.

Cat.No: 225947

Price: $450.00