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18473297Bruxelles: Imprimerie de Deltombe 1847. First edition. In later wrappers. Paper tanned occasional foxing. Otherwise in fine condition. First edition. In later wrappers. 5 2-211 1 p. <p><br /> Rare printed proceedings of the first international congress of economists in Brussels featuring Karl Marx's attendance and his early engagement in public economic debates.<br /> <p><p><br /> This volume documents the proceedings of the first-ever international conference of economists held in Brussels from September 16 to 18 1847 under the auspices of the Association belge pour la Liberté commerciale. Directed by Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckere the conference was a landmark event gathering leading economists lawyers and businessmen to debate issues of free trade and economic policy.<br /> <p><p><br /> A significant aspect of this congress is the participation of Karl Marx whose presence is recorded on the official list of participants "Marx homme de lettres et économiste à Bruxelles" p. 7. At the time Marx was living in Brussels and his involvement in the congress marked a crucial moment in his engagement with economic theory and the broader socialist movement. Although Marx was prevented from speaking his attendance along with other members of the Communist League such as Friedrich Engels was notable for their intent to challenge bourgeois economics and advocate for working-class interests.<br /> <p><p><br /> The congress became a site of contention between the bourgeois majority and the Communist group particularly after Georg Weerth's speech which sharply criticized the benefits of free trade as espoused by the free traders. Engels later provided a detailed report of these events in the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung highlighting the tensions and the exclusion of Marx's voice from the official proceedings.<br /> <p><p><br /> This book is a rare primary source for the study of 19th-century economic thought and a crucial document for understanding the early public activities of Karl Marx just months before the publication of the Communist Manifesto. It offers invaluable insights into the ideological battles that shaped modern economic and political thought.<br /> <p>. Imprimerie de Deltombe unknown
18521630New York: Greeley & McElrath 1852. First edition. With the article Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany on pp. 7–8. First edition. With the article Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany on pp. 7–8. Folded once. First sheet torn at spine. A few leaves with small tears at foldings. A tiny loss to a few letters with no effect on legibility on p. 7. Paper discolored. Chipped at edges. First edition. With the article Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany on pp. 7–8. 12 p. <p><br /> The ultimate article of the series of Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany written by Engels and published under the byline of Marx.<br /> <p><p><br /> Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany was written after Charles Dana the managing editor of the powerful progressive Republican newspaper the New-York Daily Tribune approached Karl Marx early in 1851 with the idea that he should contribute topical and historical writings to the newspaper. Dana and Marx met first in Germany some three years before when Dana reported the American press about the revolutionary movements in Europe. <br /> <p><p><br /> Marx being engaged in economic research was unable to fulfill the commission thus he asked his friend and co-thinker Friedrich Engels on August 14 1851 to write "a series of articles about Germany from 1848 onwardsâ€. MECW p. 629 “Engels agreed and in the course of thirteen months he wrote 19 articles about the German revolution of 1848–49. … Engels used as the main source of reference a file of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung apart from some additional material given him by Marx whom he constantly consulted and who read every article before mailing it.†MECW p. 629 <br /> <p><p><br /> In these articles Engels examines the economic basis and social development of Germany at the time of the Revolution shows that the uprising was defeated because of the liberal bourgeoisie and concludes that bold and resolute action is essential for the victory of a revolution. MECW pp. xiv–xv His “work lays down basic principles of Marxist teaching on armed insurrection. Engels formulates for the first time the idea that »insurrection is an art quite as much as war«â€. MECW p. xv<br /> <p><p><br /> The series was printed in the Tribune between October 25 1851 and October 23 1852 over the signature of Karl Marx the paper's official London-based correspondent. <br /> <p><p><br /> Until the correspondence between Marx and Engels was published in 1913 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany was regarded as Marx’s text. Its first separate edition was prepared by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Marx’s daughter in 1896 and in the same year a German translation was also published. While in the Tribune the articles were printed under a general title and numbered in Roman figures in the book the articles are titled the present nineteenth piece bears the title The Close of the Insurrection.<br /> <p><p><br /> Bibl.: Marx/Engels Collected Works Vol 11. The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Volume 11. Marx and Engels 1851–1853. <br /> <p>. [Greeley & McElrath] unknown
188555207København Copenhagen 1885-87. 4to. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Even browning as usual due to the paper quality. An envelope pasted on to front free end-paper containing Danish articles on Marx. Previous owner's name to title-pages. A fine and clean copy with both half-titles present "Socialistisk Bibliotek" Vol. IV-V. Vol 1: 2 473 1; Vol 2: VII; 1; 4 363 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first Danish translation of "Das Kapital". The translation is remarkable in several respects - the Danish Social-democratic party was one of the first labour organizations in the world to publish the two volumes of "The Capital" the translation of the first volume preceded both the English and the Italian and the translation of the second volume is the second in the world to appear only preceded by the Russian from 1885 - furthermore these two translations were the only two to appear of volume two until after Engels' death in 1895. After having been in a serious crisis at the end of the 1870'ies the labour movement in Denmark turned things around in the 1880'ies primarily with the aid of Marx. Marx' theories and his connection between theoretical and practical politics became the foundation for the Social Democrats. In 1884 the Danish Social Democratic Party got its two first members of parliament elected and many workers wished to become politically active. Also in Denmark the class struggle had properly begun.As Marx was the foundation for the beginning success of the Social Democrats the Party decided that it would translate and publish all the most important works by Marx - of course most importantly "The Capital". This translation was to become "a new and powerful weapon for the Danish Labour Party in the agitation for the socialist principles". The translation of "The Capital" was made by the linguist and journalist Hans Vilhelm Lund 1840-1893 who worked at the paper Social-Demokraten in the 1880'ies and 90'ies. The translation is famed for being extremely true to the original and virtually flawless. In order to reach as wide a relevant audience as possible the price was kept as low as it could be. It still constituted a full day's wages for a skilled worker namely 2 kroner - still about 1/7 of the German edition. In spite of all the efforts to distribute the translation it did not become a bestseller and in 1911 the remainders were issued with a new title-page in 1911. PMM 359 - first edition. </em> hardcover
18912634<p>Fourth English edition; 8vo; original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels. Very good spine ends and corners bumped and some wear to the extremities.</p> Swan Sonnenschein & Co hardcover
1872145418Hamburg: Otto Meissner 1872. In contemporary half sheep Second edition of volume one of Marx's polemical masterpiece of political economy revised by the author from the first edition of 1867. Only the first volume of this most influential of books was published in Marx's lifetime and though the later volumes were edited by Engels from the author's manuscript the revised edition of volume I was edited by Marx himself and contains the first printing of his ten page afterword. It was the summation of over twenty years research in the reading rooms of the British Museum and followed on from his earlier work Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie printed in 1859. Octavo 212 x 135 mm. Contemporary purple half sheep spine lettered in gilt mottled paper sides. Bound without half-title and terminal advertisement leaf. Pencilled annotations. Somewhat worn front free endpaper lacking rear endpapers with pencilled scribbling and contemporary ownership stamp to rear free endpaper contents browned stained and foxed a few signatures standing a little proud paper repairs to title page and to fore edge of pp. 3-10 not affecting text frequent paper repairs in gutter often with loss to lettering pp. 359-362 reinserted at head various minor chips occasionally with some loss to lettering. A sound copy in a contemporary German binding. Rubel 633. unknown
187585992Paris: Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie 1875. Fine. Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie Paris s. d. 1875 19.50 x 28 cm relié First edition in French translated by Joseph Roy partly previously unpublished with corrections and additions by Karl Marx. Complete with the two title pages addressed to Lachatre a frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx the facsimile of his letter to the publisher and his reply on the verso removed from later editions. Simple contemporary bronze half-cloth binding smooth spine framed in gilt gilt title bookbinder's ticket at foot of the pastedown ""Buchbinderei Schey & Co Zürich"". This first French edition of 'Das Kapital' was published in parts between 1872 and 1875 but met with no success as the publisher writes in a letter to Marx dated 24 December 1873: ""Sales are nil on your book . The print run is 1100 copies almost all still in store"". Unsold quires were partly reassembled and offered in bound paperback volumes in early 1876. As the book was barely finished booksellers were already sabotaging distribution. In June 1879 La Châtre wrote to Marx: ""There are still three hundred copies left of the last parts printed at a thousand copies. We would therefore have sold only 600 or 700 copies in a span of six years. It is a very sad result."" This was a major disappointment for Karl Marx who had put a great deal of effort into this French edition the only translation he personally edited and last one published in his lifetime. Marx ""wished to leave a mark with Le Capital in French theoretical and political debates strongly influenced by the legacy of Proudhon in a country where the International was more effectively organized than anywhere else and whose capital had 'set itself up as a Commune'. In France Le Capital was in a way the epilogue to a long theoretical and political debate begun in French twenty years earlier with the first polemic against Proudhon. . In 1872 Marx simultaneously corrected and revised Joseph Roy's translation and reworked the first German edition in preparation for the second edition published by Meissner. This twofold work constantly intersecting with each other is partly responsible for the many differences that remain between German texts of the 2nd and even later editions and the French version which Marx was correcting separately and simultaneously. At each stage of the process preparation of the original text for Roy correction of the proofs for Meissner correction of the translation sent by Roy correction of the proofs sent by the printer Marx made changes much to the despair of the printers. For many authors this division of labor into different phases would result in a large number of small variants. For Marx it encouraged a tendency that didn't need encouraging the tendency to perpetual rewriting to palimpsest."" Jean-Pierre Lefebvre introduction to the 1983 reprint of Le Capital published by Editions Sociales. On 28 April 1875 Karl Marx makes additions to a notice to the reader that would appear in the last issue on p. 348 stating his involvement in this French version and its importance within his work: ""M. J. Roy's scrupulous translation has forced me to modify the wording with the aim of making it more accessible to the reader. Since the book was published in separate parts these changes were made one after the other and were carried out with uneven attention to detail resulting in stylistic discrepancies. Having once undertaken this revision work I was led to apply it also to the substance of the original text the second German edition to simplify some developments to complete others to give additional historical or statistical material to add critical insights and so on. Whatever the literary imperfections of this French edition it has a scientific value independent of the first edition and should be read even by readers familiar with the German language"". Our copy was undoubtedly acquired by a fellow countryman Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie paperback
188655015Torino Unione Tipografico-Editrice 1886. Royal8vo. Bound in a contemporary half vellum binding with red and green title label to spine with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine forming six compartments. In "Biblioteca dell'Economista" Third Series volume 9. wear to extremities and light brownspotting throughout especially to first and least leaves. e copy. Il Capitale: 685 pp. Entire volume: 4 903 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First full Italian translation of Marx' landmark work constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. The work proved immensely influential in both communist and fascist circles. Antonio Gramsci founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy PCI based much of his theoretical and practical work on the present translation of Marx' work and Ezra Pound read this Italian translation which is among the most heavily marked annotated volumes in his personal library and was horrified by the accounts of the exploitation of labor given by Marx which eventually grew into his sympathy for fascism and Mussolini's socialist roots. Rainey Textual Studies in the Cantos.The translation was done in nine installments beginning in 1882 but was not published until 1886. The translation however remained relatively unknown: "It was difficult in Italy during that period late 19th century to obtain Marx's works. With the exception of Cafiero's hard to find summary and some other summarizing pamphlets published by another Southern scholar Pasquale Martiguetti of Benevent those Italians who sought to consult Marx were forced unless they could read the original German to have recourse to the French translation of the first volume of 'Capital' published in 1875. True in 1886 Boccardo had published in Biblioteca dell'Economista an Italian translation of 'Capital' but this was inaccessible to those of modest means." Piccone Italian Marxism.The first edition of the work originally appeared in German in 1867 and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime.Bert Andréas 154Einaudi not numbered between no. 3769 and 3770Mattioli 2287 a reprint from 1916. </em> hardcover
188557044Hamburg: Otto Meissner 1885. 8vo. Very nice contemporary black half calf with gilt spine. A bit of wear to extremitoes. Inner front hinge a little weak. Title-page a littel dusty but otherwise very nice and clean. Book-plate Arnold Heertje to inside of front board. XXVII 1 526 pp. 1 f. With pp. 515-16 in the first state "Consumtionsfonds" with a C and with the imprint-leaf at the end. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of the second volume of "The Capital" edited from Marx's manuscripts by Friedrich Engels and with a 20 pages long preface by Engels. The second volume constitutes a work in its own right and is also known under the subtitle "The Process of Circulation of Capital ". Although this work has often been to as referred to as "the forgotten book" of Capital or "the unknown volume" it was in fact also extremely influential and highly important - it is here that Marx introduces his "Schemes of Reproduction" here that he founds his particular macroeconomics and here that he so famously distinguishes two "departments" of production: those producing means of production and those producing means of consumption - "This very division as well as the analysis of the relations between these departments is one of the enduring achievements of Marx's work." Christopher J. Arthur and Geert Reuten : The Circulation of Capital. Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital. P. 7.The work is divided into three parts: The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuits The Turnover of Capital The Reproduction and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Capital and it is here that we find the main ideas behind the marketplace - how value and surplus-value are realized. Here as opposed to volume 1 of "The Capital" the focus is on the money-owner and -lender the wholesale-merchant the trader and the entrepreneur i.e. the "functioning capitalist" rather than worker and the industrialist. "it was here in the final part of this book i.e. vol. II of Das Kapital that Marx introduced his "Schemes of Reproduction" which influenced both Marxian and orthodox economics in the first decades of the twentieth century." Arthur & Reuten p. 1.The first volume of "Das Kapital" was the only one to appear within Marx' life-time. It appeared 1867 followed by this second volume 18 years later which Engels prepared from notes left by Karl Marx. </em> unknown
18892203008Humboldt 1889. 1st. hardcover. very good. First edition published and printed in the US. Very good condition gutters have tape first free end paper also has tape along inside to previous page as well as in back. Humboldt unknown
18912204033London: Sonneschein 1891. Fourth. hardcover. A very good fourth edition in the original cloth. The fourth edition. Very good in original cloth housed in a supplied slipcase. Sonneschein unknown
1887129653Madrid: Ricardo Fé 1887. First edition in Spanish of Deville's summary of Capital with his introduction first published in French in 1883 by Flammarion in Paris. The French socialist Gabriel Deville 1854-1940 "is less known than either Guesde or Lafargue but the role he played in the early diffusion of Marxism in France should not be underestimated" Llobera p. 221. In August 1882 he began discussions with Marx about a popularized abridgement of Capital - in his introduction Deville states that Marx himself proposed the idea to him. By August 1883 Engels had received a manuscript of which he was highly critical. He felt that it had serious defects and argued that Deville's main fault was that "he poses Marx's propositions as absolute whereas in Marx they hold only under conditions which Deville omits and hence come out false" Draper Chronology 84:11. However Engels's suggested modifications were never implemented. By January 1887 Kautsky was already requesting to oversee a German version of Deville's abridgment a concept towards which Engels was not supportive. Nevertheless Deville's summary was translated into many languages and widely read until very recently. It did much to quicken interest in Marx's works both in France its first country of publication but also across Europe as evidenced by the present Spanish translation. Small octavo 176 x 113 mm. Rebound in modern burgundy faux morocco spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Bound without half-title; title leaf and subsequent four leaves expertly reattached using hand-coloured Japanese tissue hinges. Contents somewhat brittle using two kinds of cheap paper stock some of the whiter heavier paper foxed the other evenly toned; occasional neat ink marginal marks; publisher's paper flaw to fore edges of pp. 17 193 and 199 resulting in slightly shorter fore-margins not affecting text. Overall a very good copy of this rare volume. See Rubel 633 note for the original French edition and Josep R. Llobera "Durkheim the Durkheimians and their Collective Misrepresentation of Marx" in Joel S. Kahn & Josep R. Llobera The Anthropology of Pre-Capitalist Societies Macmillan 1981. unknown
18968387London: Swan Sonnenschein & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1896. First English Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Original green cloth cover is frayed at corners and spine caps with light scuffing but clean and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Book is shaken. Page edges toned with very modest soiling. Split between patterned paste downs and end papers but hinges still strong. Former owner name and address on front patterned end sheet. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. . . Swan Sonnenschein & Company hardcover
189046The Humboldt Publishing Co.: The Humboldt Publishing Co. 1890. First American edition. Wraps. Good. Wrappers. Translated from the third German edition & edited by Frederick Engels. Four issues in the Humboldt Library of Science Series. These issues are 135 136 137 and 138 and are dated September 1 1890 - October 15 1890. This is a pirated edition and is the first edition printed in America of the first volume of Capital. The first "official" American edition was published 1889 by Appleton & Co. NY as a re-issue of the 1887 London edition with sheets supplied by a London company with a new title page and was actually printed in Scotland. There was also a hardcover edition published around the same time precedence unknown. Spines and covers are taped and have chips missing. The third issue has three small holes through the cover and the first 21 pages of text which has done some damage to text. A rare set in any condition. The Humboldt Publishing Co., unknown
1846450418Published by the Brook Farm Phalanx. New York: Burgess Stringer and Company. Boston: Redding and Company 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Quartos 8¼" x 11¼". Both volumes are complete with 26 weekly issues. Vol. II: pp. iv 412 December 13 1845 – June 6 1846; Vol. III: pp. iv 412 June 13 1846 – December 5 1846. Bound in contemporary half morocco and marbled paper over boards gilt spines edges lightly sprinkled. Contemporary ownership signature of “W.B. Brown†on the front free endpaper of each volume. <br /> <br /> Both volumes are in very good condition with overall rubbing and some scuffing on the spine of vol. II scattered foxing and two early stitched repairs: on the lower corner of one leaf in vol. II pp. 201-202 and diagonally across one leaf in vol. III pp. 399-400.<br /> <br /> Two well-preserved volumes of George Ripley’s pioneering and important radical magazine. Published and printed at the utopian Brook Farm community in West Roxbury Massachusetts the magazine was well ahead of its time particularly in its advocacy of women's rights and featured in its pages many of the country's best critical and literary figures.<br /> <br /> As noted in a recent exhibition at Yale University America and the Utopian Dream the Brook Farm community was founded by George and Sophia Ripley in 1841 and “began as a product of the transcendentalist movement and a showplace for Christian socialism. The commune had more than 120 members at its highest point†including a young Nathaniel Hawthorne “and was widely regarded as an intellectual center. After four years of existence however the members changed its purpose to that of a Fourierist phalanx. When the headquarters of Fourierism moved from New York City to Brook Farm in 1845 the Fourierist Magazine the Phalanx was renamed the Harbinger to be published on the Brook Farm printing press.â€<br /> <br /> The Harbinger received the full-time attention of Ripley and his associates Charles A. Dana and John S. Dwight. Dana later achieved celebrity as editor of the New York Sun and Dwight went on to become one of the earliest and foremost music critics in the United States. The magazine offered an alternative to transcendentalists who admired Emerson’s romantic perfectionism but rejected his belief in renovation through individualism and self-culture. The contributors to the Harbinger instead emphasized social reform and cooperation which would elevate the individual while benefiting the entire community; the magazine quickly became the most important "Associationist" journal in America.<br /> <br /> Also included among the many notable contributors in addition to Ripley Dana and Dwight are Albert Brisbane who first introduced the theories of Charles Fourier in the United States; William H. Channing a key figure in the early years of the woman's rights movement; and M.E. Lazarus an important American individualist anarchist who advocated for free love.<br /> <br /> The original owner of both volumes “W.B. Brown" was related to John Stillman Brown a Unitarian minister and member of Brook Farm who acted as instructor in Theosophical and Practical Agriculture. J.S. Brown was the husband of Mary Ripley George Ripley's cousin. Volume three has two additional small owner's signatures written in light pencil on the outer margin of p. 70: "Mary G. Brown"; and p. 68: "E.H. Brown".<br /> <br /> An attractive scarce set of two consecutive volumes in the original bindings. Published by the Brook Farm Phalanx. New York: Burgess, Stringer, and Company. Boston: Redding and Company hardcover
1885152862Hamburg: Otto Meissner 1885. The second volume of Das Kapital finished by Engels First edition of the second volume of Das Kapital. Only the first volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx's lifetime in 1867. Following Marx's death in 1883 the second and third volumes were edited from Marx's manuscripts and seen through the press by Friedrich Engels with the present second volume published in 1885 and the third volume in 1894. Together they form the most significant and influential critique of capitalism ever published with Das Kapital becoming the bible of Marxist movements and governments in the following century. "The history of the twentieth century is Marx's legacy. Stalin Mao Che Castro - the icons and monsters of the modern age have all presented themselves as his heirs. Whether he would recognise them as such is quite another matter. Nevertheless within one hundred years of his death half the world's population was ruled by governments that professed Marxism to be their guiding faith. His ideas have transformed the study of economics history geography sociology and literature. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted" Francis Wheen in his introduction to Karl Marx 1999. Octavo 219 x 139 mm. Twentieth century blue cloth spine lettered in gilt red speckled edges. Binding rubbed stamp of "The Adam Smith Class Library" on p. iii and 25 some leaves unopened stain at fore edge encroaching into margin but not into text 4 cm closed tear to pp. 301/2 just impinging on text and at head of 409-12 not affecting text terminal imprint leaf chipped round extremities. A good copy. Einaudi 3772; Mattioli 2284; Rubel 635; Sraffa 3867. hardcover
189659587Moscow Izdanie Vladimira Bonch-Bruevicha 1896. 8vo. In a later modest black half calf binding with marbled boards. Traces of stamp to verso of front and back board. Title-page slightly rubbed. Occassional underlignings in text and margins. Pp. 145-146 reinforced in margin. Otherwise a fine copy. XII 4 1-160 pp. <br/><br/><em>Exceedingly rare first Russian translation of this groundbreaking work in which Marx first presents his revolutionizing theories of capitalism. For years the present work was largely overshadowed by ‘Das Kapital’ and despite being published 8 years earlier The original being published in 1859 ‘Das Kapital’ in 1867 the present work was not translated until ‘Das Kapital’ had made Marx a household name in socialist and revolutionary circles making the present translation comparatively early the first English translation being from 1904.The Russian censorship cut Marx’ preface in this first translation - the full text did not appear until the revolutionary decade of 1905-1917. This Manuilov/Rumiantsev-translation remained the canonic-translation throughout the Soviet rule. The translation was made by Bolshevik revolutionary Petr Rumiantsev 1870-1924 who left the party in 1907 and emigrated in 1918 but the success of the present translation is primarily due to editor Manuilov. Editor Alexander Appolonovich Manuilov 1861-1929 was a Russian economist and politician famous not only as one of the founding members of the Constitutional Democratic party known as the Kadets but also as the Russian translator of the present work. "Manuilov graduated from the law department of the University of Novorossiia Odessa 1883. He began scholarly and pedagogical work in political economy in 1888. In 1901 he became head of a subdepartment at Moscow University becoming assistant rector in 1905 and serving as rector from 1908 to 1911. He was dismissed by the tsarist government for attacking the "extremes" of Stolypin's agrarian legislation. In the 1890's he was a liberal Narodnik Populist later becoming a Constitutional Democrat Cadet and a member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party. Manuilov's draft on agrarian reform 1905 was the basis for the Cadets' agrarian program. V. I. Lenin sharply criticized Manuilov calling him one of "the bourgeois liberal friends of the muzhik who desire the 'extension of peasant land ownership' but do not wish to offend the landlords" Poln. sobr. soch. 5th ed. vol. 11 p. 126 note."At the beginning of his scholarly career Manuilov accepted the labor theory of value. In 1896 he translated K. Marx' work A Contribution to the Criticism of Political Economy Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie. During the years of reaction he espoused subjectivist and psychological views in political economy. In 1917 he was minister of education of the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution in 1917 he emigrated but soon returned and cooperated with Soviet power. He participated in the orthographic reform 1918. In 1924 he became a member of the board of Gosbank State Bank. He taught in higher educational institutions. Changing to Marxist positions and relying on Lenin's works he criticized the revisionists and neo-Narodniks on the agrarian question." Encycl. Britt. For many years the exclusive focus on "Das Kapital" meant that the "Kritik" was overlooked. Since the beginning of the 1960's however scholars have become increasingly aware of its importance as the blueprint for the social and economic theory Marx shall go on to develop see for example Raymond Aron "Le Marxisme de Marx" 1962. It is here that Marx outlines the research programme to which he shall devote the rest of his working life. He himself described "Das Kapital" as a continuation of his "Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie" see e.g. PMM 359 in which his primary concern is an examination of capital and in which he provides the theoretical foundation for his political conclusions later presented in "Das Kapital". "I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital landed property wage-labour; the State foreign trade world market. The economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois society is divided are analysed under the first three headings; the interconnection of the other three headings is self-evident. The first part of the first book dealing with Capital comprises the following chapters: 1. The commodity 2. Money or simple circulation; 3. Capital in general. The present part consists of the first two chapters." Preface to the present work in the translation by S.W. Ryazanskaya of the Progress Publishers-edition Moscow 1977. Apart from the obvious importance of the work as the foundational precursor to what is probably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century the "Kritik" is of the utmost importance in the history of political and economic thought as it is here in the preface that Marx outlines his classic formulation of historical materialism. This preface contains the first connected account of what constitutes one of Marx's most important and influential theories namely the economic interpretation of history - the idea that economic factors condition the politics and ideologies that are possible in a society. "The first work which I undertook to dispel the doubts assailing me was a critical re-examination of the Hegelian philosophy of law; the introduction to this work being published in the Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher issued in Paris in 1844. My inquiry led me to the conclusion that neither legal relations nor political forms could be comprehended whether by themselves or on the basis of a so-called general development of the human mind but that on the contrary they originate in the material conditions of life the totality of which Hegel following the example of English and French thinkers of the eighteenth century embraces within the term "civil society"; that the anatomy of this civil society however has to be sought in political economy. The study of this which I began in Paris I continued in Brussels where I moved owing to an expulsion order issued by M. Guizot. The general conclusion at which I arrived and which once reached became the guiding principle of my studies can be summarised as follows. In the social production of their existence men inevitably enter into definite relations which are independent of their will namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society the real foundation on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or - this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms - with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure." Preface to the present work in the translation by S.W. Ryazanskaya of the Progress Publishers-edition Moscow 1977. OCLC lists merely three copies all in the US Havard Wisconsin and Hoover Institute on War. </em> hardcover
1896012738London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1896. Book measures 22.5x15.cm. Collation xxxi1816pp half title present. Bound in original publishers green cloth with gilt lettering marble endpapers. Cloth very lightly rubbed gilt lettering slightly faded some minor cloth repairs. Binding in very good firm condition. Internally name inscription on endpaper possibly written in crown faded name on title page hardly noticable some light spotting mainly to first 30 pages. Pages in good clean condition. A very nice copy. . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Hardcover
188921239741889. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 1889. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth blind-stamped borders spine lettered directly in gilt within gilt-ruled border; pp. xxxi 1 blank 816; hinges and head of spine expertly repaired extremities lightly rubbed a few marks to boards and spine spine a little toned; a few marks to first and final few leaves; but overall a very good clean copy; early twentieth-ownership inscription 'H Cottrell 25 Church Street L-Edmonton' in ink to half-title see below loosely inserted note on paper headed 'Cottrell & Drew Hat Materials Merchants . Luton' dated 2 May 1946.with:HAZELL A. P. A Summary of Marx's ""Capital"". Being a Concise Exposition of Marx's Theory of Value. London: The Twentieth Century Press. 1907.8vo. Original stapled paper wrappers with photographic portrait of Marx to front cover; pp. 20; uniform browning central crease from folding extremities a little rubbed overall very good; 'H Cottrell 25 Church Street Edmonton' in ink to front wrapper.First stereotyped edition of Das Kapital vol. I apparently the second edition of Karl Marx to be published in English and the first to be issued in a single volume with a copy of the 1907 penny pamphlet A Summary of Marx's ""Capital"".Samuel Moore 1838-1911 a lawyer and translator active in the Manchester branch of the First International was commissioned by Friedrich Engels to prepare an English translation of Das Kapital shortly after Marx's death in 1883. A close friend of both Marx and Engels Moore had studied the work in depth since the publication of volume I in 1867 volumes II and III followed posthumously in 1885 and 1894 respectively.In 1884 Moore was joined by Edward Aveling 1849-1898 - who in the same year began his relationship with Marx's daughter Eleanor - and their translation was published with Engels' full approval by Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co. in January 1887. The edition comprised five hundred copies - including two hundred for the American market - and was issued in two volumes. Based on the original German text the translation also incorporates the substantial revisions Marx made for the French edition published in forty-four instalments between September 1872 and November 1875.This stereotyped issue printed from metal plates called stereotypes rather than composed movable type constitutes the second UK edition of Das Kapital. It reproduces the text of the 1887 two-volume first English edition but is issued here for the first time in a single volume. The book was also distributed in the United States by D. Appleton & Co. of New York whose name appears as co-publisher on the title-page of American copies. When bearing this imprint the edition is regarded as the first US edition.Provenance: From the library of Henry Cottrell co-proprietor of Cottrell & Drew Hat Materials Merchants in Luton. Evidently a Marxist Cottrell presented this copy of Marx together with a second edition of A. P. Hazell's summary to his friend Dale and to Dale's son in 1946: 'Dear Dale Your son has written asking . if I can lend him Marx's Capital which his father failed to read - same is enclosed - sorry I haven't the later volumes. Why not train your son to be a reasonable citizen - let his literary food be the Manchester Guardian Weekly & make it yours as well. Hope you are all well. Yours Cott.'See PMM 359 for the first German edition. hardcover
189059553New York: Humboldt Publishing Co N.d. 1890. First Humboldt Edition. First printing. Presumed later issue with ads undated but listing up to nos. 142-143 of the "Humboldt Library of Science" Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman issued in 1890. Octavo 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt on spine with designs stamped in black on front cover in blind on rear cover; floral endpapers; xviii1-506pp;44pp ads. Bookplate to front pastedown of Jefferson D. Stewart Louisville Kentucky banker and financier whose pencil ownership signature dated 1895 also appears on the title page. An exceptional copy in the publisher's cloth binding minutely rubbed at joints and board corners; floral endpapers so prone to splitting at the hinges are fully intact and the text is fresh bright and unmarked. Very close to a fine copy and easily the best we have handled.<br /> <br /> The early publication history of this first volume of Marx's Capital in America is bibliographically complex at times stubbornly ambiguous and not seldom misrepresented. The earliest copies to appear for sale in America were imported sheets of the Swan Sonnenschein London edition of 1887 bound and distributed in America through two New York agents in one case identified on the pastedowns Julius Bordello in another Scribner & Welfored on a tipped-in slip see Philip Foner "Marx's 'Capital' in the United States" Science & Society Fall 1967. In 1889 Sonnenschein produced a stereotyped edition which was distributed in America through yet a third agent D. Appleton whose name appeared as co-publisher on the title page making this the first edition to carry any textual indication of an American publisher. Any of these three editions have some claim to being called the "First American Edition" notwithstanding the fact that none were printed in America. <br /> <br /> Beginning in January of 1890 Humboldt Publishing Co. a small New York radical publisher issued what it claimed to be "the only American edition - carefully Revised" of Capital. This was in fact an unauthorized reprinting of the Moore - Aveling translation issued without the permission of Marx's family the translators or the European publishers. To save on distribution costs Humboldt resorted to a standard 19th-century publishing ploy and issued the work as a four-part serial nos. 135-138 in its "Humboldt Library of Science" series at the time periodicals were subject to much lower postal rates than bound books. Around the same time - priority has never to our knowledge been established - Humboldt issued some of its printed sheets of Capital in the one-volume cloth edition we have here. This may be properly described as the first book edition of Capital to be printed in the United States. <br /> <br /> Unsurprisingly given the somewhat haphazard nature of 19th-century radical publishing some ambiguities remain. First it is clear from the dates of catalogued copies that Humboldt issued Capital at least twice in serial format - copies exist of issues 135-138 dated January to April 1890; other copies numbered identically exist dated October 1 to October 15 1890 see "Karl Marx Capital First American Editions" online resource . Second based on inspection of copies in our hands and other catalogued copies in commerce we note that the clothbound issue appeared with at least three different states of publisher's advertisements following the text - some with ads dated 1889 presumably the earliest issue; others as with our copy with undated ads but datable from contents to mid-to-late 1890; others with no ads at all. We suspect but cannot prove that the first two issues of the cloth edition correspond with the two known serial issues the first in January the second in October of 1890. Copies without ads were likely issued later to use up remaining sheets.<br /> <br /> Finally there is a question not previously commented upon in any of the scholarship we have consulted regarding Humboldt's claim that this "only American edition" was "carefully Revised." Some previous cataloguers have suggested that the Humboldt edition was a literal reprint of the Sonnenschein stereotype edition of 1889. But this makes little sense; Humboldt could not conceivably have had access to Sonnenschein's stereotype plates and besides the format and pagination of the two editions are entirely dissimilar. Was Moore & Aveling's translation in fact edited for American readers and if so to what degree This cataloguer has now spent sufficient time in a side-by-side comparison of the Humboldt and Sonnenschein via Hathi Trust editions to reach a preliminary conclusion that the only "revisions" consist in the alteration of British spellings to their American equivalents throughout the text e.g. "labor" for "labour"; "characterize" for "characterise" etc. No alterations to the substance of Moore and Aveling's translation appear to our eyes - though to be sure this is a lengthy work and we have performed only a random sampling of the text; an exhaustive comparison of the texts has never to our knowledge been carried out and this would seem to be a fruitful subject for research. <br /> <br /> 1. Foner Philip. "Marx's Capital in the United States." In Science & Society v. 31 no 4 Fall 1967 pp 461-66.<br /> 2. Amink Babak. "A Brief History of the Dissemination and Reception of Karl Marx's Capital in the United States and Britain." In World Review of Political Economy v.7 no. 3 Fall 2016 pp.334-349. <br /> 3. "Karl Marx Capital First American Editions" web article at Karl Marx Library Luxembourg <br /> <br /> NOTE: The second and third volumes had not yet been completed by Engels at this date and would not appear in the U.S. until the 1909 Kerr edition. Humboldt Publishing Co unknown
189021801New York: The Humboldt Publishing Co 1890. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition printed in America. Tall 8vo. xviii 506pp. Brick red ribbed cloth blocked in blind on the boards and with a gilt spine title with black lines. Translated from the German by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Cloth is rubbed at edges and hinges else this is a very good copy. <br /> <p><br /> The bibliography of this edition is a little complex. In 1890 the Humboldt Publishing Company published this edition in English of Das Kapital in four separate parts bound in stapled wrappers. Later probably the following year some copies were disassembled and bound into a single volume as in the present case. The wrappered edition contained publisher's ads. These were sometimes bound into the single volumes sometimes not and in one case only a couple of ads were bound in. Some bindings were blocked in black on the boards some not. There are reports that the publisher reprinted the text in 1891 or 1892 without the permission of the Marx family which may explain the variants. <br /> <p><br /> This copy has no ads nor black blocking on the boards but has certainly been bound from parts. The now unused stab holes are plainly evident in the gutters in several places especially near the beginning and ending of the part pages. In addition both pp. 255 and 383 show rust marks and glue residue from the wrappers.<br /> <p><br /> Even though another edition was published in the US in 1889 by Appleton the sheets are said to have been printed in England with the US title pages printed in Scotland thus making clear that this Humboldt edition was the first American printing of Das Kapital.<br /> <p><br /> The first German edition is listed in PMM.<br /> <p>. The Humboldt Publishing Co hardcover
189018763New York: Humboldt Publishing Co 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. <p>New York: Humboldt Publishing Co. 1890.<br /> <br /> FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN AMERICA.</p> <br /> <p>Original cloth lettered in gilt.<br /> 506 pages.</p> <br /> <p>Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; a little erasure mark on front endpaper; moderate wear; nicer than most maybe all examples on the market.<br /> <br /> Very scarce first American printed edition.</p> . New York: Humboldt Publishing Co hardcover
188655866Torino Unione Tipografico-Editrice 1886. Royal8vo. Bound uncut and largely unopened with the original printed wrappers in a very nice recent red half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Half-title and title-page browned. Published as "Biblioteca dell'Economista" Third Series volume 9. An unusually fine copy. Il Capitale: 685 pp. Entire volume: 4 903 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>First full Italian translation of Marx' landmark work constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. The work proved immensely influential in both communist and fascist circles. Antonio Gramsci founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy PCI based much of his theoretical and practical work on the present translation of Marx' work and Ezra Pound read this Italian translation which is among the most heavily marked annotated volumes in his personal library and was horrified by the accounts of the exploitation of labor given by Marx which eventually grew into his sympathy for fascism and Mussolini's socialist roots. Rainey Textual Studies in the Cantos.The translation was done in nine installments beginning in 1882 but was not published until 1886. The translation however remained relatively unknown: "It was difficult in Italy during that period late 19th century to obtain Marx's works. With the exception of Cafiero's hard to find summary and some other summarizing pamphlets published by another Southern scholar Pasquale Martiguetti of Benevent those Italians who sought to consult Marx were forced unless they could read the original German to have recourse to the French translation of the first volume of 'Capital' published in 1875. True in 1886 Boccardo had published in Biblioteca dell'Economista an Italian translation of 'Capital' but this was inaccessible to those of modest means." Piccone Italian Marxism.The first edition of the work originally appeared in German in 1867 and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime.Bert Andréas 154Einaudi not numbered between no. 3769 and 3770Mattioli 2287 a reprint from 1916. </em> hardcover
190057116Varna 1900. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands to spine. Extremities with wear. Frontboard missing parts of cloth. Two bands on spine missing some of the leather. Verso of front free end paper with notes in contemporary hand and previous owner's name to title-page of all three works. A few occassional marginal lignings in pencil otherwise internally good and clean. Predpostavkit na sotsializma i zadachitu.: XII 257 1 XIV pp. Marksovata Istoricheska Teoria: 86 2 pp. Kapitalutu: IV 5-284 pp. <br/><br/><em>The exceedingly scarce first Bulgarian edition of the most important abridged version of Marx's Capital ever to have appeared published five years before the first partial translation and whole 9 years before the first full Bulgarian translation. Translator Christian Rakovsky later became head of Soviet Ukraine and leader of the left opposition in the Soviet Union after 1928 was one of Trotsky's few intimate friends."The epitome here translated was published in Paris in 1883 by Gabriel Deville possibly the most brilliant writer among the French Marxians. It is the most successful attempt yet made to popularize Marx's scientific economics. It is by no means free from difficulties for the subject is essentially a complex and difficult subject but there are no difficulties that reasonable attention and patience will not enable the average reader to overcome. There is no attempt at originality. The very words in most cases are Marx's own words and Capital is followed so closely that the first twenty-five chapters correspond in subject and treatment with the first twenty-five chapters of Capital. Chapter XXVI corresponds in the main with Chapter XXVI of Capital but also contains portions of chapter XXX. The last three chapters-XXVII XXVIII and XXIX-correspond to the last three chapters-XXXI XXXII and XXXIII-of Capital." ROBERT RIVES LA MONTE Intruductory Note to the 1899 English translation.Translator Christian Rakovsky dominated the socialist movement in the Balkans during the two decades before the first world war and was probably the most influential character in spread of socialism in Europe. Trotsky wrote of him: " Ch.G. Rakovsky is internationally one of the best known figures in the European Socialist movement" and G.D.H. Cole wrote in The Second International "No other Socialist spans the Balkans in the same way as Rakovsky nor is there any of comparable importance."In 1913 Rakovsky was an organizer and leader of the Rumanian Socialist Party which later joined the Communist International. The party was showing considerable growth. Rakovsky edited a daily paper which he financed as well."He received his initial education at Kotel. At the age of fourteen in a period when as he says in his Autobiography in this volume "even the youngest students were passionately interested in politics" he was excluded from all Bulgarian schools after organizing a school riot which it took a company of soldiers to suppress. After a year in his father's house "reading indiscriminately everything that came to hand" he was readmitted to school only to be expelled again after a year this time for good. The occasion this time was his collaboration with his friend and mentor E. Dabev one of the veterans of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement. Dabev 1864-1946 edited the first marxist weekly in Bulgaria in 1886. He published in it Marx's Wage Labour and Capital. In 1890 already a marxist Rakovsky aided Dabev in preparing the publication of Engels's Development of Scientific Socialism in particular in adapting Vera Zasulich's introduction to Bulgarian conditions. In this final year in school Rakovsky also produced with a friend a clandestine newspaper called Zerkalo "Mirror" which his Autobiography describes as having "something of everything: Rousseau's educational ideas the struggle between rich and poor the misdeeds of teachers etc. ." He was now seventeen years old. That same year he left Bulgaria to study medicine in Geneva."In Geneva in 1892 Rakovsky began to edit and publish the Bulgarian journal Social Democrat which not only in its title but also in its contents resembled the Russian journal. Jointly with his companion Savva Balabanov and with the active collaboration of Plekhanov Rakovsky continued the journal for two years. Social Democrat grouped around itself in Bulgaria the supporters of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Union. This group opposed itself to the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party founded in 1891 by Dimitar Blagoev who led the left wing of the movement and later in 1919 the Bulgarian Communist Party and made the full translation of Das Kapital in 1909. Fagan Biographical Introduction to Christian Rakovsky.OCLC list no copies. </em> hardcover
