Noyesism Unveiled: A History of the Sect Self-Styled Perfectionists; with a Summary View of Their Leading Doctrines
by EASTMAN, Hubbard
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About This Item
Brattleboro: Published by the Author, 1849. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered cloth, pale peach endpapers; xii,[13]-432pp. Light shelf wear, shallow chipping at spine ends, some foxing to textblock, else Very Good or better. Vitriolic exposé on the career of the utopian socialist John Humphrey Noyes, published a year after his expulsion from Putney, Vermont. Noyes had originally developed the Oneida Community in that rural village, practicing his peculiar brand of theocratic philosophy, incorporating a blend of Free Love, "complex marriage" (i.e. polygamy), and so-called "male-continence" (i.e., intercourse without ejaculation). DARE 1444; SABIN 21677.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45149
- Title
- Noyesism Unveiled: A History of the Sect Self-Styled Perfectionists; with a Summary View of Their Leading Doctrines
- Author
- EASTMAN, Hubbard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Published by the Author
- Place of Publication
- Brattleboro
- Date Published
- 1849
- Bookseller catalogs
- Utopian Thought; Christian Socialism; Sexuality;
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- 12mo
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