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1872#10<p></p><p><strong>Karl Marx. </strong></p><p><strong>Le Capital.</strong> Traduction de M. J. Roy entièrement révisée par l'auteur.</p><p><em>Paris Librairie du Progrès 1872-1875.</em></p><p>English binding by Thompson Bros. Black half sheepskin with corners.</p><p>First edition of the French translation.</p><p>Presentation copy signed by Karl Marx in black ink on the title : <em>" To his friend Dakyns / Lond. 8 Oct. </em><em>Karl Marx ".</em></p><p>With 13 autograph corrections by the hand of Marx in black ink.</p><p><strong>Very precious copy inscribed to John Daykins a "born-communist".</strong></p><p>John Roche Daykins 1836-1910 was an English geologist who was in relations with Friedrich Engels.</p><p>Marx met him in 1869 and spoke of him as a <em>"marvelous compagnon".</em></p><p>Inscribed copies of the French edition of <em>Das Kapital</em> are scarce and the personality of the dedicatee makes this copy most precious.</p> Librairie du Progrès
186756311Hamburg, Otto Meisner, 1867. 8vo. Nice contemporary black half calf with gilt spine. Minor wear to hinges and capitals, which have tiny, barely noticeable professional restorations. Inner hinges re-enforced. Contemporary owner's names (Emil Kirchner and Karl Kirchner (1887)) to front free end-paper. Contemporary book-plate to inside of front board (Ernst Ferdinand Kirchner). A very nice copy with just the slightest of occasional brownspotting. Housed in a very nice custom-made black full morocco box with gilt llettering to spine. XII, 784 pp.
186756311Hamburg Otto Meisner 1867. 8vo. Nice contemporary black half calf with gilt spine. Minor wear to hinges and capitals which have tiny barely noticeable professional restorations. Inner hinges re-enforced. Contemporary owner's names Emil Kirchner and Karl Kirchner 1887 to front free end-paper. Contemporary book-plate to inside of front board Ernst Ferdinand Kirchner. A very nice copy with just the slightest of occasional brownspotting. Housed in a very nice custom-made black full morocco box with gilt llettering to spine. XII 784 pp. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of Marx' immensely influential main work arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. With its attack on capitalists and capitalist mode of production this cornerstone of 19th century thought came to determine the trajectory of economics and politics of the Western world. Marx' groundbreaking "Das Kapital" originally appeared in German in 1867 and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime. PMM 358. </em> unknown
100158Hamburg Otto Meisner 1867 1885 1894. . First edition; 3 vols in 4 parts; 8vo; text in German; vols. I & III with tiny closed tears to title-pages vol. IV with old stamp to title; modern brown half morocco gilt over marbled boards a very good set.<br /> The complete first edition in four volumes. '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 writing one hundred years after 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.<br /><br />Marx's masterpiece 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 Politisches Oekonomie printed in 1859. It is rarely found complete as here since the last part was published more than 25 years after the first volume - and 11 years after his death; only the first volume appeared in Marx's lifetime. The first part was edited by Marx himself while Friedrich Engels 1820-95 edited all others until one year before his death. Interestingly the publisher Otto Meissner remained responsible for the entire publication.<br /> PMM 359. Hamburg, Otto Meisner, 1867, 1885, 1894. hardcover
185258600New-York, 1852. Bound in a later (ab. 1900) red full cloth binding with silver lettering to front board. A bit of wear to capitals, corners, and extremities. Front free end-paper with small repairs and strengthening. A couple of closed tears to blank outer margin of title-page (no loss and not affecting printing)Inner blank margins of the first few leaves strengthened (far from affecting text). Occasionally a few marginal notes. and underlinings. A near contemporary notice in Russian about the work has been inserted between the title-page and the preface. All in all a good copy with no major flaws. IV, (4), 62 pp.
185258600New-York 1852. Bound in a later ab. 1900 red full cloth binding with silver lettering to front board. A bit of wear to capitals corners and extremities. Front free end-paper with small repairs and strengthening. A couple of closed tears to blank outer margin of title-page no loss and not affecting printingInner blank margins of the first few leaves strengthened far from affecting text. Occasionally a few marginal notes. and underlinings. A near contemporary notice in Russian about the work has been inserted between the title-page and the preface. All in all a good copy with no major flaws. IV 4 62 pp. <br/><br/><em>The exceedingly scarce first edition of one of the absolutely most important writings by Marx - his seminal essay on the French coup of 1851 which not only constitutes our principal source for the understanding of Marx' theory of the Capitalist state together with "The Civil War in France" but which is also the work in which Marx formulates for the first time his view of the role of the individual in history."This work i.e. "The Eighteenth Brumaire" written on the basis of a concrete analysis of the revolutionary events in France from 1848 to 1851 is one of the most important Marxist writings. In it Marx gives a further elaboration of all the basic tenets of historical materialism - the theory of the class struggle and proletarian revolution the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Of extremely great importance is the conclusion which Marx arrived at on the question of the attitude of the proletariat to the bourgeois state. He says - "All revolutions perfected this machine instead of smashing it.". Lenin described it as one of the most important propositions in the Marxist teaching on the state. In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx continued his analysis of the question of the peasantry as a potential ally of the working class in the imminent revolution outlined the role of the political parties in the life of society and exposed for what they were the essential features of Bonapartism." note 1 in the Preface to the Third German Edition Engels 1885 ."The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" was written between December 1851 and March 1852 and originally published - as it is here - in 1852 in "Die Revolution" a German monthly magazine established by Joseph Weydemeyer and published in New York. In this cornerstone of modern political thought Marx discusses the French coup of 1851 in which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte assumed dictatorial powers and does so by treating actual historical events from the viewpoint of his materialist conception of history.Marx states that his purpose with the work is to "demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part" preface to the second edition 1869 and he famously formulates his view of the role of the individual in history "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past".If one wants to understand Marx' views on the capitalist state "The 18th Brumaire" is absolutely essential as it is to the understanding of the nature the rise and the meaning of fascism. Among Marxist scholars there's wide consensus about regarding Louis Bonaparte's coup and rise to power as a forerunner of the fascism that is to emerge the 20th century. In the words of Engels: "The fact that a new edition of "The Eighteenth Brumaire" has become necessary thirty-three years after its first appearance proves that even today this little book has lost none of its value. It was in truth a work of genius. Immediately after the event that struck the whole political world like a thunderbolt from the blue that was condemned by some with loud cries of moral indignation and accepted by others as salvation from the revolution and as punishment for its errors but was only wondered at by all and understood by none-immediately after this event Marx came out with a concise epigrammatic exposition that laid bare the whole course of French history since the February days in its inner interconnection reduced the miracle of December 2 to a natural necessary result of this interconnection and in so doing did not even need to treat the hero of the coup d'état otherwise than with the contempt he so well deserved. And the picture was drawn with such a master hand that every fresh disclosure since made has only provided fresh proofs of how faithfully it reflected reality. This eminent understanding of the living history of the day this clear-sighted appreciation of events at the moment of happening is indeed without parallel. .In addition however there was still another circumstance. It was precisely Marx who had first discovered the great law of motion of history the law according to which all historical struggles whether they proceed in the political religious philosophical or some other ideological domain are in fact only the more or less clear expression of struggles of social classes and that the existence and thereby the collisions too between these classes are in turn conditioned by the degree of development of their economic position by the mode of their production and of their exchange determined by it. This law which has the same significance for history as the law of the transformation of energy has for natural science - this law gave him here too the key to an understanding of the history of the Second French Republic. He put his law to the test on these historical events and even after thirty-three years we must still say that it has stood the test brilliantly." Preface to the Third German Edition Engels 1885.The work is incredibly scarce. OCLC lists no more than two copies in libraries world-wide: One in the USA: University of Wisconsin one in France: Bibliothèque Nationale. We have not been able to locate a single copy at auction over the last 60 years. </em> hardcover
187158474High Holborn, for the Council by Edward Truelove, 1871. Small 8vo. Near contemporary quarter cloth with silver lettering to front board. Binding with signs of use, but overall good. One closed marginal tear and title-page with a few brownspots, otherwise very nice and clean. 35 pp.
187158474High Holborn for the Council by Edward Truelove 1871. Small 8vo. Near contemporary quarter cloth with silver lettering to front board. Binding with signs of use but overall good. One closed marginal tear and title-page with a few brownspots otherwise very nice and clean. 35 pp. <br/><br/><em>Exceedingly rare first edition with the names of Lucraft and Odger still present under "The General Council" of one of Marx' most important works his seminal defense of the Paris Commune and exposition of the struggle of the Communards written for all proletarians of the world. While living in London Marx had joined the International Working Men's Association in 1864 - "a society founded largely by members of Britain's growing trade unions and designed to foster international working class solidarity and mutual assistance. Marx accepted the International's invitation to represent Germany and became the most active member of its governing General Council which met every Tuesday evening first at 18 Greek Street in Soho and later in Holborn. In this role Marx had his first sustained contact with the British working class and wrote some of his most memorable works notably "The Civil War in France". A polemical response to the destruction of the Paris Commune by the French government in 1871 it brought Marx notoriety in London as 'the red terror doctor' a reputation that helped ensure the rejection of his application for British citizenship several years later. Despite his considerable influence within the International it was never ideologically homogenous. homas C. Jones: "Karl Marx' London".The work was highly controversial but extremely influential. Even though most of the Council members of the International sanctioned the Address it caused a rift internally and some of the English members of the General Council were enraged to be seen to endorse it. Thus for the second printing of the work the names of Lucraft and Odger who had now withdrawn from the Council were removed from the list of members of "The General Council" at the end of the pamphlet. "Marx defended the Commune in a bitterly eloquent pamphlet "The Civil War in France" whose immediate effect was further to identify the International with the Commune by then in such wide disrepute that some of the English members of the General Council refused to endorse it." Saul K. Padover preface to Vol. II of the Karl Marx Library pp. XLVII-XLVIII."Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Communards and their historical experience to learn from. The book was widely circulated by 1872 it was translated into several languages and published throughout Europe and the United States." The Karl Marx ArchiveMarx concluded "The Civil War in France" with these impassioned words which were to resound with workers all over the world: "Working men's Paris with its Commune will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priests will not avail to redeem them."The address which was delivered on May 30 1871 two days after the defeat of the Paris Commune was to have an astounding effect on working men all over the world and on the organization of power of the proletarians. It appeared in three editions in 1871 was almost immediately translated into numerous languages and is now considered one of the most important works that Marx ever wrote. " "The Civil War in France" one of Marx's most important works was written as an address by the General Council of the International to all Association members in Europe and the United States.From the earliest days of the Paris Commune Marx made a point of collecting and studying all available information about its activities. He made clippings from all available French English and German newspapers of the time. Newspapers from Paris reached London with great difficulty. Marx had at his disposal only individual issues of Paris newspapers that supported the Commune. He had to use English and French bourgeois newspapers published in London including ones of Bonapartist leanings but succeeded in giving an objective picture of the developments in Paris. .Marx also drew valuable information from the letters of active participants and prominent figures of the Paris Commune such as Leo Frankel Eugene Varlin Auguste Serraillier Yelisaveta Tornanovskaya as well as from the letters of Paul Lafargue Pyotr Lavrov and others.Originally he intended to write an address to the workers of Paris as he declared at the meeting of the General Council on March 28 1871. His motion was unanimously approved. The further developments in Paris led him however to the conclusion that an appeal should be addressed to proletarians of the world. At the General Council meeting on April 18 Marx suggested to issue "an address to the International generally about the general tendency of the struggle." Marx was entrusted with drafting the address. He started his work after April 18 and continued throughout May. Originally he wrote the First and Second drafts of "The Civil War in France" as preparatory variants for the work and then set about making up the final text of the address.He did most of the work on the First and Second drafts and the final version roughly between May 6 and 30. On May 30 1871 two days after the last barricade had fallen in Paris the General Council unanimously approved the text of "The Civil War in France" which Marx had read out."The Civil War in France" was first published in London on about June 13 1871 in English as a pamphlet of 35 pages in 1000 copies. Since the first edition quickly sold out the second English edition of 2000 copies was published at a lower price for sale to workers. In this edition i.e. MECW Marx corrected some of the misprints occurring in the first edition and the section "Notes" was supplemented with another document. Changes were made in the list of General Council members who signed the Address: the names of Lucraft and Odger were deleted as they had expressed disagreement with the Address in the bourgeois press and had withdrawn from the General Council and the names of the new members of the General Council were added. In August 1871 the third English edition of "The Civil War in France" came out in which Marx eliminated the inaccuracies of the previous editions.In 1871-72 "The Civil War" in France was translated into French German Russian Italian Spanish Dutch Flemish Serbo-Croat Danish and Polish and published in the periodical press and as separate pamphlets in various European countries and the USA. It was repeatedly published in subsequent years.In 1891 when preparing a jubilee German edition of "The Civil War in France" to mark the 20th anniversary of the Paris Commune Engels once again edited the text of his translation. He also wrote an introduction to this edition emphasising the historical significance of the experience of the Paris Commune and its theoretical generalisation by Marx in "The Civil War in France" and also giving additional information on the activities of the Communards from among the Blanquists and Proudhonists. Engels included in this edition the First and Second addresses of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian war which were published in subsequent editions in different languages also together with "The Civil War France". Notes on the Publication of "The Civil War in France" from MECW Volume 22. Only very few copies of the book from 1871 on OCLC are not explicitly stated to be 2nd or 3rd editions and we have not been able to find a single copy for sale at auctions within the last 50 years. </em> hardcover
185958578Berlin, Franz Duncker, 1859. 8vo. Nice contemporary hafl calf with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of wear to extremities, markings after old label to front board and signs of vague damp staining to front board. A mostly faint damp stain to outer inner corner throrughout, but otherwise very nice. Title-page a bit dusty. Old library number (872) to front free end-paper and top of title-page and marginal pencil-annotations to a number of leaves. VIII, (2), 170 pp. Title-page with the ownership-signature of Alexander Appolonovich Manuilov to top of title-page and binding with his initials ""A. M."" in gold to the fot of spine.
185958578Berlin Franz Duncker 1859. 8vo. Nice contemporary hafl calf with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of wear to extremities markings after old label to front board and signs of vague damp staining to front board. A mostly faint damp stain to outer inner corner throrughout but otherwise very nice. Title-page a bit dusty. Old library number 872 to front free end-paper and top of title-page and marginal pencil-annotations to a number of leaves. VIII 2 170 pp. Title-page with the ownership-signature of Alexander Appolonovich Manuilov to top of title-page and binding with his initials "A. M." in gold to the fot of spine. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition in a magnificent association-copy of the groundbreaking work in which Marx first presents his revolutionizing theories of capitalism forming the foundation for his main work "The Capital" which appeared eight year later. It is also in this milestone of political and economic thought that Marx presents his economic interpretation of history for the first time.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 Marx' "Zur Kritik." i.e. 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.The work is a summation of Marx' many years of economic studies mainly undertaken at the Reading Room of the British Museum and it constitutes the first attempt at a general outline of his theories. Like his "Capital" the "Critique" was originally planned as a work in several volumes but only this first volume appeared. The work which was printed in a mere 1000 copies is scarce and rarely seen on the market. </em> unknown
1872135988Madrid: de la viuda é hijos de Alvarez November-December 1872. The first appearance in Spanish of the Communist Manifesto First appearance of the Communist Manifesto in Spanish published within six issues of La Emancipación the official organ of the New Madrid Federation of the International. Issued every Saturday as a four-page folio news sheet the text of the Manifesto was printed in two columns across the lower half of each page of numbers 72-77 with separate pagination effectively printed as two pages on the lower portion of each page designed to be cut out and kept as a booklet with other texts following in later numbers. The Manifesto itself fills 22 pages with two additional texts "La Propriedad" 16 pages and "Manifesto inaugural de la Asociación internacional de los trabajadores" 7 pages continuing in later issues our copy of the journal ends with number 80 page 14 of "La Propriedad". The paper ceased publication with number 91 The translator José Mesa co-founder of the Internationale in Spain based his translation of sections I and II on a French text revised by Engels that had appeared in Le Socialiste in New York in 1872. Sections III and IV were translated from the German edition of 1872 Andréas 72 as well as the authors' preface of 24 June 1872. Andréas notes that there are a small number of changes omissions and free translations concluding that this first Spanish translation of the Manifesto is not absolutely complete. WorldCat and Andréas together locate just 5 copies at the National Library of Spain the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan the Marx-Lenin Institute in Moscow the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the Karl Marx Haus Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Trier. 6 numbers bound in a vol. of the first 80 numbers of La Emancipación beginning with number 1 19 June 1871. Folio 410 x 475 mm. Contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled paper boards spine unlettered edges sprinkled red. Head of front joint split rear joint slightly rubbed with some wear. Tax stamp to final few numbers occasional marking repair to first leaf obscuring text bound without number 67; in very good condition. Andréas Le Manifeste Communiste de Marx et Engels 74. hardcover
1886138596Madrid: Dionisio de los Ríos 1886-87. Very rare first edition in Spanish an abridged translation of volume one of Marx's Das Kapital Capital. Its scarcity is explained by the brittle poor quality of the paper stock - the same used for printing Zafrilla's newspaper - and its small print run thought to number no more than 1000 copies in total. Pablo Correa y Zafrilla 1844-1888 was a federalist translator and lawyer. He was professionally attached to the prestigious Colegio de Madrid enjoyed a close friendship with Catalan federalist Francesc Pi i Margall and was appointed a deputy of the Cortes Generales in 1873 during the First Spanish Republic. He was also the editor of La República a newspaper which had announced its intention in early 1886 to publish a serialised translation of Capital which would be delivered bimonthly to its subscribers. It was decided that the pages would be twice the size of the newspaper's usual publications to account for the length of Marx's work and to prevent the individual parts from becoming too thick. Though he promised to work directly from the original German 1867 and said as much in his preface Zafrilla actually based his translation on the first edition in French translated by Joseph Roy and published in forty-four livraisons by Lachâtre from 1872 to 1875 see Ribas 1985 for a detailed analysis of the textual similarities between the French and Spanish text. The first part of Zafrilla's El Capital was sent to subscribers with a copy of the newspaper in February 1886 - the title page reflects the year of first delivery not final printing - and publication must have been completed by mid-1887 when La República was offering subscribers the option for one peseta of binding all the parts into one quarto volume in "elegantes tapas de tela" elegant cloth covers. Non-subscribers could purchase all the parts without cloth for 60 cents; it is possible that the printed wrapper dated 1887 which is sometimes mentioned in relation to Zafrilla's translation was produced for this purpose. It is estimated therefore that the print run can have been no more than a thousand copies in total with a few hundred of this amount reserved for subscribers the rest being made available for separate purchase Castillo p. 93. An unknown remainder of these was apparently later bound up for La República to offer as gifts to new subscribers or those who renewed their subscription for a further six months yet we have found no record of any other copy surviving with the exception of that cited by Ribas below. According to WorldCat no library is known to possess El Capital and no other copies are recorded as having appeared at auction. Pedro Ribas a renowned collector of Marxist literature states that he has handled just one in his lifetime that held at the Faculty of Law University of Salamanca p. 205. Zafrilla's translation received little to no comment in the contemporary press. When alluded to it was dismissed as being imperfect and incomplete particularly by El Socialista the periodical founded by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party PSOE in 1886. Brief excerpts from Marx's writings had been translated into Spanish before - beginning in 1872 when La Emancipación the Spanish IWMA organ published translations of Marx's preface to the first German edition and his letter to Lachâtre in the French edition Draper Chronicle 72:58 - but Zafrilla's translation was the first concerted effort to present in full the message of Capital to a Spanish audience. The present copy is a remarkable survival considering the complexity of its serialized publication. Tall quarto 233 x 165 mm. Complete with final blank leaf. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Board edges and corners worn spine defective and skilfully repaired replacing missing portions at foot of spine and along front joint. One or two gatherings somewhat browned short marginal tear to one leaf tax stamp of the Spanish crown "timbre 3 pesetas 10 kilos Madrid" with their arms to page 156 partially obscuring the text; a very well preserved copy of a fragile book. Not listed in the standard Marx bibliographies. See Santiago Castillo "Marxismo y Socialismo en el siglo XIX español" in Manuel Ortiz Heras David Ruiz González & Isidro Sánchez Sánchez eds. Movimientos sociales y estado en la España contemporánea 2001 pp. 81126; Pedro Ribas "La primera traducción castellana de El capital 18861887" in Cuadernos Hispano-Americanos no. 420 June 1985. hardcover
184042363Paris, A. Frank, Bruxelles, C. G. Vogler, 1840. In-8 de (4) ff., 178 pp., (1) f. d'errata, demi-chagrin havane, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture imprimée de papier bleu clair conservée (reliure vers 1870).
18892210110Appleton & Co 1889. first. hardcover. very good. First US edition in original cloth very good condition. Front and rear gutters have been repaired. Housed in a custom-made foldout case. Appleton & Co unknown
1887144183Swan Sonnenschein Lowery & Co: London 1887. Rare first edition in English published two years before the first American edition of Karl Marx’s seminal work in both economic and political thought. Octavo bound in half morocco over marbled boads raised bands. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. In very good condition with an ownership to the verso of volume one to the title page. Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik des Politischen Oekonomie 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century's economic studies". The 'Athenaeum' reviewer of the first English translation 1887 later wrote: 'Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital Karl Marx's work is principally a polemic against capitalists and the capitalist mode of production and it is this polemical tone which is its chief charm.' The historical-polemical passages with their formidable documentation from British official sources have remained memorable; and as Marx". wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press 'I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest of their lives.' Carbuncles financial embarrassment and political preoccupations of many kinds hampered Marx's work on Das Kapital which he would never have completed but for the material and moral support of Engels"." PMM 359. "In his funeral eulogy for Karl Marx Engels concluded that 'Marx was above all a revolutionary". It is doubtful that any figure in history has inspired more violently contradictory opinions than Karl Marx" Downs 22. "Only this first part of Marx's magnum opus appeared in his lifetime" with its publication in German in 1867 PMM 359. The remainder was constructed by Engels from Marx's posthumous papers. Containing Marx's central concept of surplus value this first edition in English is translated from the third German edition of Moore and Aveling is edited by Engels and incorporates substantial revisions Marx made for the first French translation 1872-5. London hardcover
1887140948873London: Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co 1887. First Edition. Near Fine. First British and first English-language edition of this world-changing Socialist text. xxxi 1 363; ii 365-816 pp. with appendix at rear of second volume most pages unopened. Bound by the Dragonfly Bindery in quarter calf with layered stain over marbled boards morocco title labels and gilt tooling to spines laid endpapers.<br /> Near Fine with scuffing to fore edge of Volume II textblock repaired tear and thumbing to Volume I prelims and moderate toning to contents. Housed in a custom double-volume clamshell case quarter chestnut morocco over marbled boards. A lovely copy of this groundbreaking work.<br /> <br /> <p> Das Kapital was already called "the Bible of the working classes" by the time it was published in England in 1887 four years after the author's death. The text is taken from the third German edition of the first volume the only one written by Karl Marx. The additional volumes written by Engels from his friend's notes were not translated into English until the 20th century. Upon the appearance of these two volumes in 1887 the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote of Marx:<br /> <br /> <p>"It is impossible to be sure that further historical research will confirm his interpretation of the past or experience verify his anticipations; but whilst capitalism lasts he will still make his mark upon his readers and through them on the world. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co unknown
184558581Frankfurt a. M., 1845. 8vo. Contemporary black half calf. Professionally rebacked. Title-page somewhat dusty and re-hinged. VIII, 335, (1) pp.
184558581Frankfurt a. M. 1845. 8vo. Contemporary black half calf. Professionally rebacked. Title-page somewhat dusty and re-hinged. VIII 335 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>Incredibly scarce first edition of one the most significant political publications of the 19th century the first joint work of Marx and Engels leading to a life-long association that would change the world. "The Holy Family" is one of the most fundamental works in the history of communism and contains the first formulations of a number of fundamental theses of dialectical and historical materialism. For instance it is here that the idea of mass/the people as the actual maker of the history of mankind is put forth for the first time and here that Marx shows that communism is the logical conclusion of materialistic philosophy.The work became incredibly influential and caused great uproar. Lenin claimed that it was this work that laid the foundations for scientific revolutionary materialist socialism.At the end of August 1844 Engels passed through Parison his way to Manchester. It was here that he met Marx then for the second time.Marx suggested that the two of them should write a critique of Young Hegelian trend of thought then very popular in academic circles. They decided to co-author the foreword and divided up the other sections between them. Engels had already finished his chapters before leaving Paris after 10 days. Marx had the larger share of work which he completed by the end of November 1844.The general title "The Holy Family" was added at the suggestion of the publisher Lowenthal being a sarcastic reference to the Bauer brothers and their supporters." "The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Critique. Against Bruno Bauer and Co." is the first joint work of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. At the end of August 1844 Marx and Engels met in Paris and their meeting was the beginning of' their joint creative work in all fields of theoretical and practical revolutionary activity. By this time Marx and Engels had completed the transition from idealism to materialism and from revolutionary democratism to communism. The polemic The Holy Family was written in Paris in autumn 1844. It reflects the progress in the formation of Marx and Engels's revolutionary materialistic world outlook.In "The Holy Family" Marx and Engels give a devastating criticism of the subjectivist views of the Young Hegelians from the position of militant materialists. They also criticize Hegel's own idealistic philosophy: giving credit for the rational element in his dialectics they criticize the mystic side of it.The Holy Family formulates a number of fundamental theses of dialectical and historical materialism. In it Marx already approaches the basic idea of historical materialism - the decisive role of the mode of production in the development of society. Refuting the idealistic views of history which had dominated up to that time Marx and Engels prove that of themselves progressive ideas can lead society only beyond the ideas of the old system and that "in order to carry out ideas men are needed who dispose of a certain practical force." See p. 160 of the present edition. The proposition put forward in the book that the mass the people is the real maker of the history of mankind is of paramount importance. Marx and Engels show that the wider and the more profound a change taking place in society is the more numerous Me mass effecting that change will Re Lenin especially stressed the importance of this thought and described it as one of the most profound and most important theses of historical materialism.The Holy Family contains the almost mature view of the historic role of the proletariat as the class which by virtue of its position in capitalism "can and must free itself" and at the same time abolish all the inhuman conditions of life of bourgeois society for "not in vain does" the proletariat "go through the stern but steeling school of labour. The question is not what this or that proletarian or even the whole of the proletariat at the moment considers as its aim. The question is what the proletariat is and what consequent on that being it will be compelled to do." pp. 52-53.A section of great importance is "Critical Battle against French Materialism" in which Marx briefly outlining the development of materialism in West-European philosophy shows that communism is the logical conclusion of materialistic philosophy.The Holy Family was written largely under the influence of the materialistic views of Ludwig Feuerbach who was responsible to a great extent for Marx's and Engels's transition from idealism to materialism; the work also contains elements of the criticism of Feuerbach's metaphysical and contemplative materialism given by Marx in spring 1845 in his Theses on Feuerbach. Engels later defined the place of The Holy Family in the history of Marxism when he wrote: "The cult of abstract man which formed the kernel of Feuerbach's new religion had to be replaced by the science of real men and of their historical development. This further development of Feuerbach's standpoint beyond Feuerbach was inaugurated by Marx in 1845 in The Holy Family." F. Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy.The Holy Family formulates some of the basic principles of Marxist political economy. In contrast to the Utopian Socialists Marx bases the objective inevitability of the victory of communism on the fact that private property in its economic motion drives itself towards its downfall.The Holy Family dates from a period when the process of the formation of Marxism was not yet completed. This is reflected in the terminology used by Marx and Engels. Marxist scientific terminology was gradually elaborated and defined by Marx and Engels as the formation and development of their teaching progressed." Introduction to the work by Foreign Languages Publishers"The book made something of a splash in the newspapers. One paper noted that it expressed socialist views since it criticised the "inadequacy of any half-measures directed at eliminating the social ailments of our time." The conservative press immediately recognized the radical elements inherent in its many arguments. One paper wrote that in The Holy Family "every line preaches revolt. against the state the church the family legality religion and property." It also noted that "prominence is given to the most radical and the most open communism and this is all the more dangerous as Mr. Marx cannot be denied either extremely broad knowledge or the ability to make use of the polemical arsenal of Hegel's logic what is customarily called 'iron logic.'Lenin would later claim this work laid the foundations for what would develop into a scientific revolutionary materialist socialism." Marx Archive. </em> unknown
18731526Londres London; Hambourg Hamburg: A. Darson; Otto Meissner 1873. First edition. The original printed wrappers bound into later half cloth. Old faint collection stamps on wrappers and title page. The front wrapper and first leaf with traces of creasing. Wrappers and first and last two leaves dusted. A stain at the upper corner of the first four leaves one leaf with a whole due to the stain which only affects the margin. Overall in very good condition. First edition. The original printed wrappers bound into later half cloth. 4 137 1 p. <p><br /> A scarce copy of the renowned Alliance Pamphlet whose conclusion was written by Karl Marx.<br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> This report the so-called Alliance Pamphlet is a collection of documents and writings related to the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy written compiled and edited by Friedrich Engels Paul Lafargue and Karl Marx. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> The Alliance was a semi-secret subgroup of the International Workingmen's Association IWA; First International founded and led by Mikhail Bakunin the Russian revolutionary anarchist. The International sought to extrude the sectarian Alliance from the organization since its establishment in late 1868. Eventually at the Hague Congress 1872 the leaders of the International exposed the public and clandestine activities of the group and expelled its chief leaders Bakunin and James Guillaume from the IWA. The Congress appointed a committee which included Marx Engles and Lafargue to edit and publish the documents related to the Alliance. “The bulk of the work involved in the collection of additional material its comparison and analysis was carried out by Engels and Paul Lafargue. The concluding part of the pamphlet was written by Marx†see Collected Works 44. p. 665 note 623. In his letter dated on 26 July 1873 to Adolph Sorge Engels wrote: “Lafargue and I wrote it i.e. the Pamphlet together; only the conclusion is by Marx and myselfâ€. Collected Works 44. p. 521. The book appeared in French in the fall of 1873 and soon it was translated into German under a somewhat more tendentious title “Ein Complot gegen die Internationale Arbeiter-Associationâ€. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Bibl.: The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Letters 1844–1895. Volume 44. Charlottesville Va.: InteLex Corporation 2001. <br /> Rubel 726.; Stammhammer I 3.<br /> <p>. A. Darson; Otto Meissner unknown
188460267[Weimar, Gustaf Uszman] for E.L. Kasprowicz, Lipsk [Leipzig], 1884-[89]. Large 4to. Bound in a very nice recent red half calf with five raised bands and gilt title to spine. Title-page with repair to inner margin and with a few closed tears. Outer margin discreetly reinforced. Verso of title-page with ""1942 D. 1513"" in pencil. Last leaf also with a couple of closed/repaired tears, with minor loss of text, and reinforced in margin. Apart from the nicely restored flaws to the first and last leaf, this is an excellent, very nice and clean copy. VII, 325, (1) pp.
188460267Weimar Gustaf Uszman for E.L. Kasprowicz Lipsk Leipzig 1884-89. Large 4to. Bound in a very nice recent red half calf with five raised bands and gilt title to spine. Title-page with repair to inner margin and with a few closed tears. Outer margin discreetly reinforced. Verso of title-page with "1942 D. 1513" in pencil. Last leaf also with a couple of closed/repaired tears with minor loss of text and reinforced in margin. Apart from the nicely restored flaws to the first and last leaf this is an excellent very nice and clean copy. VII 325 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>Very rare first edition of the first Polish translation of Marx' revolutionizing main work "The Capital" which was clandestinely printed in Germany and then smuggled into Poland. The Polish translation which is much rarer than the first Russian edition and thus of the utmost scarcity was illegally printed in Germany with the mediation of the translator Kasprowicz who worked for Brockhaus by G. Uszman in Weimar far enough from Prussia for the government not to be too concerned with the socialist activities of Polish students and was then smuggled mostly via Leipzig and Torún into Russian Poland. It appeared in three parts from 1884 to 1889. The translation which was mainly done from the French was the work of the hugely influential Polish socialist group the Krusinsk-ites which counted Stanislaw Krusinski Ludwik Krzywicki who corresponded directly with Marx himself Mieczyslaw Brzezinski Kazimierz Plawinski and Jozef Siemaszko. Ludwik Krzywicki 1859-1941 was the editor-in-chief of this great collaborative work. He is credited with being the leading Marxist of the period and one of the greatest Marxist thinkers of Poland. In 1883 he was expelled from Warsaw University after which he went to Germany Switzerland and France before returning to Poland in 1893 where he continued his political activities and took part in the 1905 revolution. While in Leipzig from 1883 working on the translation of the Capital into Polish he began corresponding with Marx and after Marx died March 1883 he continued corresponding with Engels who provided direct suggestions of improvements and corrections.The publication of the first Polish translation of Marx' Capital not only came to influence Polish politics and economics it also marked an important divide in Polish socialism and constitutes one of the earliest printings within organized Polish Marxism. "In 1882 Ludwig Warýnsk 1856-89 organized in the former Congress Kingdom the first Polish workers' party under the name Social-Revolutionary Party "Proletariat". At the same time in the Russianized Imperial University of Warsaw a circle of young Polish socialists established itself. Its main theoretician was Stanislaw Krusinski 1857-86 after whom the group were called "Krusinski-ites". The most important among them was later to become one of the greatest scholars in the field of the social sciences. In 1884 the Krusinski-ites published in Leipzig the Polish translation of volume one of "Capital".In the ideology of the first Polish Marxists two different tendencies are to be distinguished; a social-revolutionary and a social-democratic one. The first was prevalent in Warzynski's "Proletariat"; after the secession of a social-democratic group named "Solidarity" and led by Kazimierz Puchewicz it was unanimously accepted by this party. The second tendency was dominant in Krusinski's circle. The differences dividing them were profoundly theoretical and not merely tactical. Generally speaking the social revolutionaries emphasized the important role of the "subjective factor" in history while the social democrats insisted on the necessity of a gradual "ripening" of the economic conditions of the socialist revolution. The social revolutionaries closely collaborated with the Russian populist party The People's Will and under its influence endorsed political terrorism; the social democrats were resolutely opposed to this. Even more important was the controversy concerning the basic theoretical assumptions of Marxism and their applicability to an economically backward country. The social democrats were convinced that the objective conditions for a socialist revolution would not be ripe until the given country had passed through all phases of capitalist development." Walicki Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Polish Beginnings of "Western Marxism" pp. 41-42. </em> hardcover
1847170758Paris: A. Frank & C. G. Vogler Brussels 1847. A comprehensive exposition of the materialistic conception of history First edition of Marx's caustic attack on Proudhon "the bitterest attack delivered by one thinker upon another since the celebrated polemics of the Renaissance" Isaiah Berlin one of 800 copies printed. In 1846 Proudhon had published his celebrated book La Philosophie de la Misère inviting Marx's response to it in a letter: "j'attends votre férule critique" I await your critical rod. Marx wasted no time in reading it and in writing a scathing reply to it in French thereby creating a permanent rift in their relationship. "The book is a masterpiece of polemical writing. It has also another and greater merit. In it we get the first approach to a comprehensive exposition of the materialistic conception of history. Here we find elaborated the theory that history must be interpreted in the light of economic development. The Misère de la Philosophie created a sensation in radical circles as might have been expected and added considerably to the fame of the author" Spargo. Octavo 225 x 144 mm pp. viii 178. Without the leaf of errata sometimes found. Contemporary maroon pebble-grain cloth spine ruled and direct lettered in gilt sides with double rule blind-stamped border marbled edges silk ribbon marker. Ownership stamp "O.G." to title page pencil ownership inscription E.S. dated 1966 with cost code and note signed E.E.S. dated 2005 to front free endpaper and half-title verso. Spine faded short split to head of front joint corners a little bruised. Endpapers a little browned and fragile short tear to lower margin of front free endpaper and half-title without loss; contents with very occasional light spotting; a very good copy. Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels p. 10; Draper M681; Rubel 55; Sraffa 3837. John Spargo Karl Marx: His Life and Work 1910. hardcover
1866176389Geneva: J.-C Ducommun et G. Oettinger 1866. Very rare account of the first congress of the First International First edition of this account of the 1866 Geneva Congress the first congress of the First International. Copies are very rare and only three are known in institutional collections: the Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Karl-Marx-Haus and Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde in Germany and the Bibliothèque de Genève in Switzerland. The First International was founded under the name of International Working Men's Association at a mass meeting in London on 28 September 1864. Its founders were among the most powerful British and French trade union leaders of the time. Though Karl Marx had no part in organizing the meeting he was elected one of the 32 members of the provisional General Council and at once assumed its leadership. Its supreme body was the Congress which met in a different city each year and formulated principles and policies. The first congress was held in Geneva and its proceedings are published here including the opening statements of Dupleix and Becker presidents of the French and German sections respectively. Marx was unable to attend the event in person choosing to stay in London working on Das Kapital but his 11 "instructions" were read published here on pages 13-14. The Congress's emphatic support for the eight-hour working day led to this aim becoming a major goal of the international socialist movement. Octavo pp. 30. Near-contemporary plain brown wrappers. Housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Minor chips at spine ends covers lightly soiled front cover and free endpaper separating slightly at head corners a little dog-eared. A very good copy. Draper M-406; Rubel 629. hardcover
1898150965Madrid: F. Cao y D. de Val 1898. Of "pioneering importance" First complete edition in Spanish of the first volume of Das Kapital; rare in commerce with no copies recorded at auction by Rare Book Hub or ABPC. An Argentinean physician turned radical Justo was the founder of the Argentine Socialist Workers Party and active member of the International. He first translated Das Kapital from the fourth German edition of 1890 the last to be edited by Engels. His translation was preceded in Spanish only by the abridged translation of Pablo Correa y Zafrilla published in 1886-7 in the newspaper La República which was taken from Joseph Roy's French translation published 1872-75. Justo's translation presented the full text of the volume for the first time. "The author of perhaps the work's best translation to Spanish to date Pedro Scaron has pointed out Justo's pioneering importance not so much for his style but for his fidelity to the original and 'for the security with which he faced problems in the solution which linguistic knowledge is necessary but not sufficient'" Braun p. 572. The second and third volumes of Das Kapital did not appear in Spanish until Manuel Pedroso's translation published in 1931. Octavo 240 x 156 mm. Photographic portrait of Marx following title page. Contemporary purple half sheep purple pebble-grain cloth sides spine lettered in gilt later printed marbled endpapers. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Library stamps of "Legislación Española" to half-title and of "Instituto de Reformas Sociales" to half-title title portrait and 14 text pages shelf mark stamps to half-title verso and title minor ink annotations to pp. 22-3 and 26. Slight loss to spine lettering light rubbing at extremities contents toned lower portion of pp. 11-12 supplied in skilful facsimile small chip at top fore corner of pp. 91-2 slight paper reinforcement at extremities of last 2 leaves still a good copy. Not in Rubel. Carlos Rodríguez Braun "Early Liberal Socialism in Latin America: Juan B. Justo and the Argentine Socialist Party" The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol. 67 No. 4 2008. hardcover
1879128758Milan: C. Bignami e C 1879. First edition extremely scarce of Cafiero's abridgment of Marx's Das Kapital the first appearance of the work in Italian. This was one of the earliest abridgements of Das Kapital and was much admired by Marx. Carlo Cafiero 1846-1892 an Italian socialist met Marx and Engels in London in 1870 and was recruited to their cause. He returned to Italy accepting their offer to become the special agent in Italy of the International's General Council working especially in Naples where the Bakunists and Mazzinians held sway over the left. Engels tried to warn Cafiero about the dangerousness of Bakunin's ideas but by 1872 Cafiero had fallen in with Bakunin and was joining the anarchists. Imprisoned in 1877 "Cafiero read the French translation of Capital. The book electrified him with its brilliance and he immediately set about writing a commentary on it. By the time Cafiero left prison in August 1878 he had a short book ready for publication. The following February his old newspaper La Plebe began to publish instalments in Italian translation of the thirty-first chapter of Capital 'The Genesis of Industrial Capitalism' and in March the paper announced the imminent publication of a 'compendium' of the entire book. On 20 June 1879 Il Capitale di Carlo Marx appeared in print. Cafiero sent two copies of the Compendio to Marx in London. In an accompanying letter that began 'Stimatissimo Signore' Most Esteemed Sir he apologised for not letting Marx see the manuscript before publication. It had been his intention to do so but then a publisher had unexpectedly made him an offer. He explained to Marx: 'Fear of losing a favourable opportunity prompted me to consent to the proposed publication.' Cafiero closed with an expression of 'the deepest respect' for Marx and the hope that he had done right by Capital. Marx replied with high praise for Cafiero's book. Although Marx wrote to Cafiero in French he had made a serious study of Italian in his youth and read the language quite well. Most such summaries of his work Marx complained frustrated him with their superficiality misrepresentation and outright fabrications. Cafiero he continued had mastered almost all of his ideas. He had noticed only 'one apparent deficiency' in the Compendio: Cafiero had not addressed his argument about how 'the necessary material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat are spontaneously generated by the development of capitalist exploitation.' Marx likewise tactfully ignoring the unpleasantness of 1872 encouraged Cafiero to return to the omitted theme in a future work of exegesis" Richard Drake Apostles and Agitators Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition p. 30ff. Octavo 172 x 113 mm. Bound with the first Italian translation of J. S. Mill's The Subjection of Women in contemporary marbled boards roan leather spine ruled in blind direct lettered gilt edges sprinkled green and blue. Ownership inscription to each half title of Nicola de Berardini. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed spine with a few spots of surface wear paper stock of Il Capitale lightly browned; a very good copy. Draper III p. 37; Sraffa 3862; Stammhammer I:44 cites a Milan edition published by Ambrosoli but according to de Vivo this is a ghost. OCLC and COPAC find copies at the British Library Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Karl Marx Haus and two copies in the Sraffa collection at Cambridge. hardcover
