Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 17:01:18 -0700
From: Joshua Houk <jlhouk-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Individualists in print or etext?




"Shawn P. Wilbur" wrote:

> I've been trying to work my way through the slough of 19th century US
> radicalism, and finding almost nothing in the way of primary texts
> available, either in print or online. Out of the 12 or so pages of Jerry
> Kaplan's bibliography of american individualism, i've only been able to
> put my hands on a few texts - library reprints of Stephen Pearl Andrews,
> Joshiah Warren and Benjamin Tucker. The AK catalog and my initial search
> of the WWW weren't much more help.
> 
> Anyone know of any individualist publishing or etexting operations out
> there that i may have missed?

How apropos! I just got my copy of _Instead of a Book_ in the mail today.
Combine that with Richard Parry's _The Bonnot Gang_, and y'all won't see me for
a while, due to me being bunkered down in some serious individualist reading.

Iain's suggestion of The Memory Hole is on the mark. You might be able to find
some stuff from the Voluntaryist via http://users.aol.com/vlntryst/ although
your mileage may vary (depends on how you like their insistence on the free
market).

I can't recommend http://www.bibliofind.com highly enough for finding used
books. There's a first edition of the aforementioned Tucker book on the market,
although at $225, it's a bit out of my league.

I recently bought _Benjamin R. Tucker and the Champions of Liberty_ which is a
nice modern anthology of writings on Liberty. Any book that mentions the
particulars of Tucker losing his virginity just has to be good. But the main
reason for bringing it up... There's a small catalog of books from Michael E.
Coughlin in the back. Included is the swweeeet offer of the complete run of
"Liberty" on microfiche with Wendy McElroy's _Liberty 1881-1908: A Comprehensive
Index_ for the insanely low price of $51.50. However, the book was published in
the mid 80s, and I don't know if these are still available. If you want to
jointly try to contact the publisher for copies, I'd definitely be amenable to
the idea.

joshua h