first edition
1906 · Boston
by Bailie, William
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. xl, 135 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine slightly sunned, minor soiling to cloth; contents lightly toned at edges. Scarce. The biography of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in the United States. Warren was an early exponent of Owenism, a polymath, founder of a "Time Store" in Cincinnati, Ohio in which labor hours were exchanged for goods and services, and a co-creater of two mutualist anarchist colonies: Utopia, Ohio and one in upstate New York called Modern Times.
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