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187247305Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie unknown books
188657483London: Reeves & Turner 1886. First Edition in English. 8vo 500pp uncut in original green cloth.some water damage to the rear board little toning to the title-page o/w a very good tight copy. The Paris Comune of 1871 was an insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28 1871. It occurred in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III's Second Empire 1852-70. Lissagary was a soldier of the Commune. This translation was originally done in 1876 and was entirely revised and corrected by Karl Marx. As a working class revolutionary movement the experience of the Commune offered Marx an opportunity for contemporary analysis. Scarce. Reeves & Turner unknown books
18745439New Haven Ct: Richmond 1874. First Edition. Intro. by Henry Red clothworn at the top of the spine A good tight copy. An attack on Socialism. Villetard was editor of Journal des Debats. Richmond unknown books
