Dawn-Thought on the Reconciliation. A Volume of Pantheistic Impressions and Glimpses of Larger Religion

Wellesley Hills, MA: The Saugus Press, 1900. First Edition. First printing. Small, square octavo (17cm). Deep gray-green cloth, titled in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; xii,197,[3]pp. Trace of rubbing to covers; gentle forward lean to text block, with a somewhat crude repair to front hinge (internal); still generally clean and unmarked, Very Good.. Laid in is a 1-pp printed sheet of testimonials, including statements by Luther Burbank, Kahlil Gibran, and R.M. Bucke - clearly printed later, as the Gibran and Burbank quotes are dated 1925 & 1926 respectively.

A good copy of one of the most uncommon titles by J. William Lloyd (1857-1940), an eccentric anarchist (individualist early in his life; mutualist later on), free-love advocate, and religious skeptic who was a frequent contributor to Benj. Tucker's Liberty and also editor and publisher of his own anarchist periodiocal The Free Comrade (1900-02; 1910-12). In later years, Lloyd devoted himself to the study of sex and health, advocating a method of orgasmless intercourse he called the "Karezza Method," described in his anonymously-published 1931 treatise of the same name.