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18632091202133302158Otsukishoten 1863. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 372 16p Size: 20cm Otsukishoten paperback
189923048ELondon: Leonard Smithers & Co 1899. First Edition. Number 298 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Square quarto. Bound in original lavender cloth with gilt lettering at the spine and gilt decorative designs by Charles Shannon at the outer edges of the boards and the spine. A lovely copy with a trace of foxing a minor bump to the top corner of the front board some slight browning to the endpapers and very minor edgewear. From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.†Leonard Smithers & Co hardcover books
18881291947Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University 1888. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 26 pages; VG; gold cover with grey print tear at lower spine edge mild spotting on front back cover and adjoining pages have slight fold in upper left corner cover beginning to separate from lower spine edge; clean inside; cover title: The Sigma XI Society 1888" 1291947. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Cornell University unknown books
1871V32223Leipzig (S.Hirzel) 1871 (= 4., vermehrte Auflage). 8°, Halbleder der Zeit mit 4 Bünden (Hardcover), 500 S., 4
1898147558V Praze. Nákladem Jana Laichtera na Král. Vinohradech 1898. XIII, (1), 701 Seiten. Halbleder-Einband mit mermorierten Deckeln u. Rückenvergoldung. (Einbandkante einseitig aufgebrochen u. stärker berieben). 21x14 cm
187322869AB1873. Göttingen Dieterich 1873. 4°. 48 S. OPp. etwas fingerfl. bzw. bestoßen Rücken unauffällig überklebt. unknown
184358875Zürich & Winterthur Literarischen Comptoirs 1843. 8vo. Bound in one nice later half calf binding in contemporary style with gilt title and blindstamped ornamentation to spine. Faded inscription of "Eigenthus des Literar. Museum" to both title-pages and last leaf of bot volumes. Stamps of the same Litarary Museum to volume 1 at both title-page last leaf and a few leaves inbetween. Neat pencil annotations to a few leaves of volume 1. Neatly washed and with a few tiny closed tears to second gathering. A small spot to lower blank margin of pp. 195-8 of vol. 1. Contents generally clean and crisp. All in all a evry nice copy. IV 320 IV 288 pp. Marx' paper: Vol. I pp. 56-88. <br/><br/><em>Extremely scarce first edition of this two-volume periodical which contains the first printing of Marx' first newspaper article being the first political article written by Marx for publication namely his "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction". This important debut work which constitutes the foundation of Marxian dialectic and his formulation of Critical Hegelianism was written between January 15 and February 10 1842 but due to censorship restrictions it first appeared here in Ruge's "Anekdota" in Switzerland in 1843 to avoid German censorship. "The young Marx and the young Engels ridiculed the Prussian Censorship Law of 1841. The attack of the young Mark "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction" was written in 1842 but published a year later in Ruge's "Anekdota"."Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction" is an early exercise by the young Marx in the application of the categories of Hegelian critique. In this essay the young Marx employed the Hegelian modalities of substance and essence to demonstrate the authoritarian nature of the Prussian Censorship Instruction. The young Marx utilized the concepts of substance and essence in the defence of free press. "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction" defines the essence of a free press as free mind or the essence of reason as freedom. The young Marx argues that it was impossible for reason to act in accordance with its essence unless it was totally free because without absolute freedom reason cannot follow its own insights to their logical conclusion. Consequently when the Prussian Censorship Instruction limits the freedom of reason when it sets boundaries beyond which reason cannot go the Prussian Government annihilates the essence of reason. The strategy of the young Marx is his essay is to adopt Hegelian logic in the cause of liberalism. He wished to show how Hegelian categories could be adjusted could be transformed into weapons in the cause of political reform. In this essay the young Marx proved two things that he interpreted Hegel as a critical Hegelian and that he himself continued this Critical Hegelian tradition. In 1842 the young Marx explored experimented with the use of Hegelian categories essence and appearance as devices by which to advance the cause of political progressivism and this was the meaning of Critical Hegelianism in the generation of Gans." Norman Levine: Divergent Paths: Hegel in Marxism and Engelsism pp. 142-43."Karl's i.e. Marx politics had closely followed those of Ruge ever since the end of the 1830s. In 1842 and 1843 their responses to immediate events not least the "frivolous diatribes of the "Free" had remained very close. An established author and in the possession of independent means "Papa Ruge" - as Jenny called him - was clearly the senior partner in this collaboration. The banning of the "Deutsche Jahrbücher" in January 1843 as the result of Prussian pressure together with the suppression of the "Rheinische Zeitung" meant the effective silencing of Young Hegelianism within Germany. The aim of the criticism as it was applied among Young Hegelians was to highlight the gap between the demands of reason and the behavior of the government but its failure to make any significant headway against the Prussia of Friedrich Wilhelm IV had also pushed them both towards an open criticism of Hegel's political philosophy. Gareth Steadman Jones: Karl Marx Greatness and Illusion p. 142.Although another anonymous essay "Luther als Schiedsrichter zwischen Strauß und Feuerbach" Vol. II pp. 206-208 has long been attributed to Marx the preface to MECW I now states that "recent research has proved that it was not written by Marx Draper register p. 58. The piece might be by Feuerbach himself. </em> unknown
1854322698Boston: Gould and Lincoln 1854. hardcover. very good. Small thick 8vo pebbled brown cloth spine faded. Boston: Gould and Lincoln 1854. Very good.<br/> <br/> Gift inscription in silver on flyleaf.<br/> <br/> Gould and Lincoln 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
183925673Paris Desessart 1839 In--8 Tome Second Seul, 528 pp, petit cachet ex-libris et un petit manque en quatrième de couverture.
1834642601834. Notiz. Geb. Nat. Heilk. 1 859. - Hrsg. v. Ludwig Friedrich Froriep. - Weimar Landes-Industrie-Comptoir März 1834 4° 1-16 Sp. Tafel feine Broschur. Erstdruck! "Dupuytren legte mit Hülfe eines Troikarts und eines weissglüheden Cauteriums eine Harnröhre an. Offenerhaltung durch Katheter." "Dupytren created a urethra means of a trocar and white-hot cautery. Kept open by catheter." Zeis Nr.1629; Zeis No.2195 unknown
1820VIEN0427Wien, J. E. Akkermann (Johann Emanuel Ackermann) 1820. 12°. Gest. Frontisp. (Scheurer del.), Titelbl., IV, 3-110 S., Buchblock geheftet, mit Kartonumschlag, Umschlagdeckel mit schwarzgeprägter Eckenverzierung, Umschlagdeckel u. letzte Lagen locker. Frontispiz gebräunt, Seiten meist schwach stockfleckig. Gugitz 4,58f.; Mayer 1232; Vgl. ADB 46,243ff. - Erste und einzige Ausgabe dieser Monographie über das Wiener Bürgerspital in St. Marx, das von 1785 bis 1861 nur mehr als 'Versorgungshaus für arme und alte Personen' diente. Verfasser war der Arzt Lorenz Novag (auch Nowak; 1774-1849), 'der Arzneykunde Doctor und Physicus dieser Anstalt', der 1803 an der Wiener Universität promovierte und dort Professor der physischen Erziehungskunde war. Der bekannte Lustspieldichter Eduard Bauernfeld (1802-1870) soll sein unehelicher Sohn gewesen sein, obwohl ihn Bauernfeld selbst als seinen Pflegevater bezeichnete. Das Frontispiz zeigt den Innenhof des Versorgungshauses nach einer vermutlich zeitgenössischen Zeichnung.
190042070Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts. Émile Lévy Éditeur 1900. Full-page plates throughout and in text. 41 pp of Text. 1 vols. Small Folio. Bound in full green morocco gilt dentelles green moire silk endpapers a.e.g. in slipcase. Bottom of upper joint tender else a fine copy of a beautiful book. Full-page plates throughout and in text. 41 pp of Text. 1 vols. Small Folio. Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts. Émile Lévy, Éditeur unknown
1896106260Paris: Floury 1896-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. 0x0x0. 12 issues bound in quarter leather text is in French. December 1896 December 1897 images throughout. Original wrappers bound in rear. oversized and overweight. D47 Please email for photos. Paris: Floury hardcover
1897104981Paris: Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art. 1897. Tall quarto half-leather binding with marbled sides title in gilt to spine within raised bands eleven heliogravure plates with tissue guards and many similigravure illustrations in text pp.62. i Index decorated endpapers. Scraping to boards. Ex-library with stamps in text and to reverse side of plates but none to the plate side. Good condition. Rare first edition. An illustrated study of medals awarded in nineteenth-century post-revolutionary plates following the Storming of the Bastille 14 July 1789 with striking photogravure plates. Includes medals by Augustin Dupre Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier Nicolas Marie Gatteaux Jean Jacues Barre et al. Uncommon. 1st Edition. Half leather. Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art hardcover
18973733541Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art 1897. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 4to. Red library cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine sunned and exterior moderately soiled. Secure binding. Pages clean. Illustrated. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN: Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art hardcover
1897222685Paris: Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art 1897. First. hardcover. very good. 11 heliographs and many text illustrations. Slim 4to 63 pages green cloth backed marbled boards with the original printed wrappers bound in gilt spine withtan leather spine label. Paris: Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art 1897. First Edition. Very good .<br/> <br/> Societe de Propagation des Livres d'Art unknown
19003733039Henri Laurens 1900. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1300grams ISBN: Henri Laurens hardcover
1839MASTER243835IANTWERP: DEWEVER BROTHERS. G IN MARBLED BOARDS W/BLACK LEATHER SPINE. TEXT IN DUTCH. Pages: 339. . 1839. HARDCOVER. MARBLED EPS. HEAVILY EDGEWORN. LIGHTLY SCUFFED & SOILED. PREV. OWNER NOTATIONS ON 1ST BLANK. TEXT CLEAN BINDING INTACT. . DEWEVER BROTHERS hardcover
182495688Dieterich. Göttingen 1824 1824. privater Einband . 392s. in gutem Zustand AZC12 2 HC Dieterich., Göttingen 1824, unknown
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
1867120907Geneva: Verlag der Association 1867. First edition of Marx's announcements for Capital part of a complete run of Der Vorbote from the library of anarchist Johann Most First edition of Marx's formal announcements of the publication of the first volume of his magnum opus Das Kapital in the uncommon revolutionary socialist journal Der Vorbote with an exceptional provenance from the library of the German radical journalist and agitator Johann Most who played a part in Capital's publication history and with whom Marx had a turbulent relationship. When the first volume of Capital was finally published on 14 September 1867 Marx and Engels "set about breaking through the silence of the German press" Draper I 1867.1 by placing notices in various international papers with limited success. Marx had written to Johann Philipp Becker the founder and editor of Der Vorbote in April 1867 to pre-emptively ask for his help; as a result the first advance announcement appeared in Der Vorbote's issue of the same month with two further pre-publication announcements printed in the June and July issues. The official announcement of Capital's publication was printed in the September issue and successive notices printed in October and November. These were some of the earliest notices to be printed after Capital's publication and are all included in this volume along with other highly valuable contributions from most of the major figures of 19th-century international communism. Johann Most is best known for his later anarchist period in America but his reputation as an agitator was established in Germany as the editor of a series of social-democratic papers. Most was responsible for the first abridgement of Capital volume 1 published in 1873 under the title Kapital und Arbeit. Taking issue with some of Most's abbreviations Marx revised the abridgement but stipulated that his name not be used in connection with it because it remained imperfect. After being expelled from Berlin in 1878 Most emigrated to London where he repeatedly visited Marx but despite his attempts to sway Marx to his more radical opinions Most only succeeded in distancing himself further. Despite their disapproval when Marx and Engels were informed of Most's arrest in the wake of Alexander II's assassination they immediately sent a letter to the London Daily News in his defence and Marx even contributed to the fund against his prosecution. Most fled to America in 1882. On the news of Marx's death he gave a speech at the memorial meeting held in New York. Octavo 204 x 122 mm a complete run 72 monthly issues from 1866 to 1871. Recent purple half morocco and marbled paper boards new endpapers retaining the original front free endpaper see note. Spine lettered and dated in gilt with the title misspelled as "Der Verbote". Contemporary ownership inscription of "J. Most" - Johann Most 1846-1906 - in blue pencil a second inscription to title page of April 1869 issue and occasional annotation to the text. Contents generally clean with occasional spotting and dampmarks some stab-holes visible at gutters a few issues trimmed in the binding process those printed on inferior paper stock fragile at the margins and with a few short tears and more toning than others 1 full leaf April 1868 and 1 half-leaf January 1870 cut away and 4 other instances of excised portions clipped from the text by a previous owner; a rare survival. Andréas 55. See Draper The Marx-Engels Cyclopedia 1985. hardcover
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
