Author: Noyes, Pierrepont,
Title: My Father's House: an Oneida boyhood.
Description: NY, Farrar & Rinehart, (1937). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. 300 people, under the leadershp of Humphrey Noyes established a community of Christian communists at Oneida, NY, where they. lived for more than 30 years in one building. Pierrepont was born in 1870, 10 years before the Oneida Community abandoned its experiment, including "Complex Marriage", and the communal ownershp of all property. The narrative is written warmly with the freshness and charm of childhood itself. Then follows the account of the years afterward, a boy thrust headlong into a world of struggle and selfishness, a world that despised his birth. Red binding, faded toward, pictorial of Oneida "Mansion House" on DJ front. DJ chipped, chunk missing from top ft edge.

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