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1881137927The Hague: Liebers & Co 1881. The rare first Dutch edition First appearance in Dutch of Marx's Lohnarbeit und Kapital with a flattering dedication to Marx by the translator and compiler Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis 1846-1919 a Dutch socialist. "Originally a Lutheran pastor 1870-1879 he left the church founded the socialist weekly Recht voor Allen 1879. He played a leading part in developing the Social-Democratic movement in the Netherlands; was elected to parliament for a term 1881-1891; disappointed in legislating social reform he turned to anarchism 1890s. He authored a number of propaganda brochures." Draper: The Marx-Engels Glossary p. 154. Nieuwenhuis sent a copy of the work to Marx on 8 January 1881 Marx replying in a letter of 22 February in which he expresses a desire to make a list of changes and corrections for a second edition but regrets that personal difficulties prevent him from so doing. A second edition was published in 1889. Octavo 204 x 126 mm. viii 82 pages. Disbound preserved in a glassine wrapper under acetate. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine re-glued. Paper stock lightly browned a few small marginal chips occasional pencil markings; a very good copy. WorldCat locates 5 copies in the Netherlands 3 in Germany and 1 in the USA. hardcover
188160211The Hague Liebers & Co 1881. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Spine missing some of the paper and upper part of front wrapper and lower part of back wrappers detached. Wrappers brownspotted and previous owner's name in pencil to upper margin of front wrapper. Pp. 37-40 missing some of the paper in upper margin - far from affecting text otherwise internally fine and clean. VII 82 pp. <br/><br/><em>The rare first Dutch translation of Marx’s “Lohnarbeit und Kapital†i.e. "Wage Labour and Capital" here in the exceedingly rare printed wrappers presumably being the only known copy in wrappers. This seminal work by Karl Marx which due to its aim to be a popular exposition of his central theories of capitalism and the economic relationships between workers and capitalists became one of the most generally influential and widely read of Marx' works. It is widely considered the precursor to Das Kapital. "Wage Labour and Capital" was originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847 and was first published however only fragmentarily in the form of five articles in April 1849 in the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". Because of the political conditions the printing of the series had to be ended and thus only these five articles appeared as there was no sign of the rest of it between the papers of Marx that were found after his death. The work did not appear again until 1881. In 1891 Engels published a re-worked version of the article which took into account Marx' later developments in his economic theory for instance Engels inserted the distinction between "labour" and "labour-power" which Marx did not make in the original version and during the 1890'ies the work appeared in numerous languages and in an enormous amount of editions. Marx' seminal theories that are made easily accessible in this important publication include his Labour Theory of Value his Theory of Concentration of Capital his Theory of Alienation etc. which were all later developed in the "Capital" three fundamental theories that have influenced all later economical-political thought. Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis 1846-1919 a Dutch socialist. "Originally a Lutheran pastor 1870-1879 he left the church founded the socialist weekly Recht voor Allen 1879. He played a leading part in developing the Social-Democratic movement in the Netherlands; was elected to parliament for a term 1881-1891; disappointed in legislating social reform he turned to anarchism 1890s. He authored a number of propaganda brochures." Draper: The Marx-Engels Glossary p. 154. </em> unknown
1894124940Saint Petersburg: Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del 1894. Marx's Kapital finally banned from Russian public libraries Extremely rare example of a Russian index librorum for public libraries recording the first - and rather late - attempt to censor the works of Marx listing the first two volumes of Das Kapital being the first edition of volume one in Russian 1872 and the first edition of volume two 1885. Scarce no other examples traced on WorldCat or KVK. "By an odd quirk of history the first foreign translation of Das Kapital to appear was the Russian which Petersburgers found in their bookshops early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur the censor one Skuratov had written 'few people in Russia will read it and still fewer will understand it.' He was wrong; the edition of three thousand sold out quickly; and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F. A. Sorge that 'our success is still greater in Russia where Kapital is read and appreciated more than anywhere else'" PMM. As the worker's movement gained momentum it was decided to censor Kapital. This pamphlet based on a resolution dated 1 January 1894 selects works for removal and destruction from public libraries and reading rooms and was intended strictly for internal use; a printed note forbids further publications or other disclosure of any part of it. Among other famous works affected by this censor's ban are Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata in all editions translations of various works by Herbert Spencer John Stuart Mill Emile Zola and works on socialism such as The Eight Hours Day by Sidney Webb and Harold Cox. Also included was a translation of James Bryce The American Commonwealth. Octavo 242 x 168 mm. Original buff wrappers printed in black 16 pp. sewn. Previous ownership stamp of A. Martynov to title page in purple ink. Wrappers creased with some marks three small closed tears to extremities contents toned else a fresh copy of a fragile publication. See Printing and the Mind of Man 359 first edition of the first volume of Das Kapital. unknown
1882136584Geneva: Volnaja Russkaja Tipografija 1882. By far and away the best of all the foreign language translations First complete Russian translation of the Communist Manifesto declared by Engels to be "by far and away the best of all the foreign language translations he knew" Andréas. Translated by Georgi Plekhanov with a new preface written in January 1882 by Marx and Engels as well as their preface to the edition of 1872 it was this translation that played an important role in the development of the Russian socialist movement. The original Russian translation of 1869 probably by Nechayev contained a number of serious mistakes and omitted several sections of the German original. Octavo 168 x 112 mm x 50 pp. Sometime separated into individual leaves now guarded in gutter re-sewn and bound in recent quarter blue morocco and blue-grey boards spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Library stamp to title page and ownership stamp "Bolan. 6. June. 1940" to page iii perforated library stamp of New York Public Library to lower margin of page 3. Cut close at head with occasional loss of pagination. Short closed tear to title repaired on blank verso leaf edges somewhat brittle with occasional chipping pages iv vi viii x 2 3 5 7 9 12 and final leaf with tiny marginal strengthening repairs; withal a very good copy of a very scarce edition. Andréas 135; Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels p. 15; Draper ME33 ST/ME34; Rubel 757. 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
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
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
1898136738New York: International Publishing Co 1898. 2nd edition. Very Good. octavo. hardback in original cloth xv 500pp. appendix Socialist Party Library label on front paste-down paper browning & front hinge tender o/w a very good reading / reference copy International Publishing Co hardcover
188626395London:Reeves and Turner 1886. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:Reeves and Turner. 1886. 1st edition in English. xv500pp Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear to edges spine ends worn with small tears to top edge and edge points gently bumped and worn to boards. Gilt on spine still bright. Internally decorated end-papers are clean free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is holding front hinge has cracked and rear hinge is still intact but cracked at pps. 432/433 and 500. Translated by Karl Marx's daughter. London:Reeves and Turner hardcover
18982240<p>Terre Haute Indiana; New York: Standard Publishing Co.; International Publishing Co. 1898. Hardcover. Good. Unique Publication. Good Ex-Library Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Rare/Collectible. Bound pamphlets are rare. Previous owner name and date 1909 on front half-title page. Also some blue pencil underlining in two of the three pamphlets. The first pamphlet has a stained title page. The three pamphlet publications by International Publishing are of different sizes and were bound into a book sold by Standard Publishing Co. of Terre Haute Indiana sometime after 1900. One pamphlet is dated 1898 another is dated 1899. The first two pamphlets have introductions by Frederick Engels. One B&W illustration of Marx.</p> Standard Publishing Co.; International Publishing Co. hardcover
186400231915Paris E. Dentu Éditeur 1864. Hardcover. Good. Rebound; book plate on upper paste down; foxed. Paris, E. Dentu, Éditeur hardcover
1860177307London: A. Petsch & Co. deutsche Buchhandlung 1860. First edition of the work that Marx took the best part of a year away from the writing of Capital to complete. It is an answer to the slanders against himself Engels and their supporters that appeared in Karl Vogt's 1859 pamphlet Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung. "Herr Vogt is Marx's 'forgotten' work. Mentioned in passing - if at all - in biographical studies and scarcely at all in discussions of his writings it has remained for over a century largely neglected. Marx knew before its publication that many 'clever men' would be 'completely unable to grasp how I could squander my time on refuting such infantile nonsense'. What the clever men and their successors over the years could not or would not understand is that for Marx in 1860 as for Marxists today the defence and security of the revolutionary party was of paramount concern Vogt had taken the side of the petty-bourgeois democrats in 1848. Now he reached for the foulest slanders against Communists alleging that they engaged in secret and violent conspiracies and that Marx acted among them like a dictator. In this book Marx answers Vogt line for line and charge for charge. In the first chapters he holds up to ridicule Vogt's assertion that the Communists constituted a secret conspiratorial gang producing evidence from German emigrés which leaves the slanderer's arguments in tatters. Marx spares neither wit nor invective in demolishing his opponent" R. A. Archer. in the preface to his English translation of Herr Vogt 1982. Karl Vogt was "quietly teaching in Switzerland when an obscure German refugee newspaper in London accused him of being a paid agent of Napoleon III. The matter might have been forgotten if Liebknecht had not sent the accusation to the Allgemeine Zeitung which was published in Augsburg. Liebknecht was the London representative of the German newspaper. The Allgemeine Zeitung published the story. Vogt was incensed sued the newspaper for libel and although the case was dismissed he was able to claim a technical victory. He suspected quite wrongly that Marx was behind the attack. In fact Marx found little pleasure in the affair which dragged on for many weeks and was relieved when it was over. Matters might have rested in the peace of exhaustion but late in 1859 the bitterness flared up again. A small book appeared in Germany bearing the title Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung. It was Vogt's account of his lawsuit against the Allgemeine Zeitung with a stenographic record of the court proceedings and whatever explanatory and contributory documents the author could lay his hands on. Vogt was a scientist and he took care that the documents should be quoted with exemplary accuracy. Occasionally he would give initials rather than full names but he was careful not to tamper with anything else. Here finally was the full evidence for Marx's treachery and duplicity as revealed in precise and objective testimony. There were no appeals to the gallery only the documents. Vogt's presentation was masterly and no one reading the book casually could imagine that it would be possible to rebut the evidence" Payne Marx a biography p. 318. Marx outraged at the attack replied in 1860 with Herr Vogt in which he denounced Vogt for intrigue slander and double-dealing. Octavo 226 x 149 mm printed in Gothic type. Original publisher's printed wrappers. Housed in a custom cloth box. Spine ends restored short tear at foot of rear joint corners a little dog-eared; a very good copy. Draper ST/M 51; Rubel 567. R. A. Archer Herr Vogt 1982. See Francis Wheen Karl Marx p. 238ff. hardcover
186056420London 1860. 8vo. Bound partly uncut with the original wrappers in a nice recent half calf pastiche binding with four rasied bands and gilt lettering to spine. Front wrapper with marginal repairs and back wrappers with repairs with minor loss of text. Light brownspotting to first and last leaves. A fine copy. VI 2 1-191 1 -errata pp. <br/><br/><em>The rare first edition of Marx' landmark defense against defamation a seminal work in his struggle for a new human society. Written in the midst of his writing of "The Capital" "Herr Vogt" constitutes the work that took precedence over this most important critique of political economy and the work that gives us one of the most profound insights into the mind of the great Marx. "Herr Vogt" is furthermore the work that we have to thank for the influence that "The Capital" and Marxist socialism did come to have upon our society. "In 1857 Karl Marx resumed work on his critique of political economy a process that culminated in the publication of "Capital" a decade later. He wrote a rough draft the "Grundrisse" in 1857 and 1858 parts of which he then reworked into the "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" which was published in June 1859. Then in 1861 through 1863 he wrote a revised draft of the whole of "Capital" which was followed by a more polished draft written during 1864 and 1865. Finally he revised the first volume yet again during 1866 and 1867. It appeared in September 1867.The careful reader will have noticed a rather lengthy gap in this chronology. From the second half of 1859 through 1860 Marx was not working on his critique of political economy. What was he doing instead What was so important so much more of an urgent priority than his theoretical workThe answer is that Marx was fighting back against Carl Vogt's defamatory attack. He fought back in order to defend his reputation and that of his "party." . " Herr Vogt" the book Marx wrote in order to set the record straight." Klimann Marx' Struggle Against Defamation.Vogt was a prominent radical German politician and materialist philosopher who had immigrated to Switzerland where he served in parliament and was also a professor of geology. His position on the 1859 war over Italian unification had a pro-French tilt which resulted in the publication of a newspaper article and an anonymous pamphlet that alleged correctly that Vogt was being paid by the French government. Vogt believed Marx to be the source of the allegation and the author of the pamphlet.Vogt fought back by attacking Marx. He published a short book that described Marx as the leader of a band of blackmailers who demanded payment in return for keeping quiet about their victims' revolutionary histories. The book also contained a number of false and harmful allegations against Marx and Vogt did everything in his power to destroy Marx' reputation. Not only did he attack Marx personally he also falsified facts and made up untrue allegations to libel the Communist League portraying its members as conspirators in secret contact with the police and accusing Marx of personal motives.There is no doubt that this work of slander put both Marx' own future as well as that of the Communist League at stake. "Ferdinand Lassalle warned Marx that Vogt's book "will do great harm to yourself and to the whole party for it relies in a deceptive way upon half-truths" and said that "something must be done" in response quoted in Rubel 1980 p. 53. Frederick Engels also urged Marx to respond quickly and he provided a good deal of assistance when Marx wrote "Herr Vogt".Carl Vogt and the circumstances that gave rise to his defamatory attack against Marx and his "party" are dead and gone. But "Herr Vogt" and Marx's battle against defamation remain living exemplars of how one responds in a genuinely Marx-ian way-i.e. the way of Marx. Do not separate theory from practice or philosophy from organization. Do not retreat to the ivory tower or suffer attacks in silence; set the record straight. Use the bourgeois courts if necessary. Enlist the assistance of others." Klimann."Marx's Herr Vogt almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world. It is nevertheless one of the most brilliant of his writings. Engels considered it better than the Eighteenth Brumaire; Lassalle spoke of it as "a masterpiece in every respect"; Ryazanov thought that "in all literature there is no equal to this book"; Mehring rightly wrote of its "being highly instructive even today"." Karl Marx on Herr Vogt - from The New International Vol. X No. 8 August 1944 pp. 257-260. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O'Callaghan for ETOL. </em> unknown
182495688Dieterich. Göttingen 1824 1824. privater Einband . 392s. in gutem Zustand AZC12 2 HC Dieterich., Göttingen 1824, unknown
18595578FB1859. Göttingen Dieterische Buchhandlung 1859. 34 S. Neuer Pappband. Papier dezent angebräunt stellenweise leicht knitterfaltig. Sauber und sehr gut erhalten. unknown
182465728. Dieterich Göttingen 1824 1824. Opb. 392s guter Zustand. AZB53 2. . HC ., Dieterich, Göttingen 1824, hardcover
1863143295Berlin: Verlag von Otto Janke 1863. Hardcover. Well worn set with corners and spots of the bottom edges rubbed through to boards front hinge of volume one cracked some foxing particularly to endpapers but still a good sound reading copy. 2vs. one quarter leather and peebled cloth covered boards. 464pp. 384pp. plus 80 pages of music. Verlag von Otto Janke hardcover
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
188758427Madrid Ricardo Fé 1887. 8vo. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine and red paper covered boards. Most leaves evenly browned due to the quality of the paper and some brownspotting to last few leaves. Overall a very good copy indeed of this otherwise fragile book. Socialismo Utopico. : pp. 1-91 1 frontispiece of Engels; La Ley de Los Salarios. : pp. 1-44 frontiespiece of Guesde; El Capital: pp. I-LVI 263 pp. <br/><br/><em>The exceedingly scarce first Spanish edition of the most important abridged version of Marx's Capital ever to have appeared published in the same year as what is generally accepted as the first Spanish edition of "Das Kapital" Zafrilla's abridged version - defectively translated from Roy's French version - which was published in newspaper installments 1886-87.This Spanish translation was made from the French of Gabriel Deville 1854 -1940 the great French socialist theoretician politician and diplomat who did more than almost anyone else to raise awareness of Karl Marx's theories of the weaknesses of capitalism - most effectively through the present work which came to have a profound influence upon the spreading of Marxist thought throughout the Spanish speaking part of the world. "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.The Spanish translator of the work is Antonio Atienza a typographer and translator at the press of Ricardo Fé who in 1886 volunteered his work at the newly founded "El Socialista" the Spanish flagship publication of Marxist socialism. It was also in 1886 that Atienza translated the present work with the publication following in 1887. This translation happened almost simultaneously with the "translation" by Zafrilla which appeared in weekly installments in the rival newspaper "La Républica" and the two first versions of "Das Kapital" to appear in Spanish tell the story of more than just the desire to spread Marx's ideas in Spain. Both versions were part of an ongoing struggle between political parties vying for the loyalty of Spain's workers see more below. THE WORK IS OF THE UTMOST SCARCITY WITH MERELY THREE COPIES LISTED ON OCLC two in Bristish Library and one in Bibliothèque Nationale and none at auction over the last 40 years at least.Backgrund for the publication:Among the numerous nascent political organizations that sprouted in the last half of 19th century Spain many of them as a result to the tumultuous years after the so-called "Glorious Revolution" of 1868 was the Partido Socialista Obrero Español PSOE. The party was founded by Pablo Iglesias in 1879 and it was the second socialist party in Europe preceded only by the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD. Notably of the original twenty-five founding members sixteen were typographers. March of 1886 was a turning point for the PSOE as they began to publish a weekly newspaper "El Socialista" in order to reach a wider audience throughout Spain and thus advance the Marxist socialist agenda of which the paper became the flagship. To this day it is the official paper of the PSOE the present ruling party in Spain although it was suppressed during the years of Franco's dictatorial regime and published sporadically in exile in France or clandestinely in Spain. It was again published regularly since 1978. The PSOE gave up Marxism in 1979 in favor of Democratic Socialism.In 1886 the translator of the present work Antonio Atienza was a typographer and translator at the press of Ricardo Fé. At the same time he volunteered his work at the newly founded El Socialista as the PSOE funds were quite limited-he wouldn't have a paid position in the paper until 1913. He translated articles by Engels Guesde and Buechner among others."Das Kapital" had been published twenty years earlier. That it took so long to reach Spain in book form reveals among other things that up to that moment most of Marx's thoughts had filtered through to the workers' unions and parties by way of the writings of his followers as they were interpreted and explained by the intellectuals in charge of these organizations. It is also evident that the complexity of the book wouldn't be of much use to the average worker factory and otherwise. Enter Deville's abridged version which was more accessible in that some of the most basic ideas of Marx were digested and re-explained. The point was not to publish a book that could only be only be understood by economists and philosophers but one that could be given to the workers. A rival party leftist party considered by the PSOE as bourgeois was the Partido Republicano Federal. One of its members Pablo Correa y Zafrilla undertook the task of translating the first volume of Das "Kapital". Quite usual for Spain at the time the translation was published in weekly instalments to subscribers of their newspaper "La República" starting in 1886 and ending in 1887. The paper then sold the cloth binding to its subscribers and offered to collect the installments to have the book bound for its customers. According to the ad in "La República" 22/1/1886 the translation is purportedly from the German original but it has been clearly demonstrated that it is a defective translation from the French translation of Roy Ribas. It seems very plausible that when the PSOE found out that someone else in Spain was beginning to publish a translation of the first volume of "Das Kapital" El Socialista decided to publish Deville's translation. In fact the publication of El Capital by "La República" was briefly mentioned once in "El Socialista" and not in flattering terms 7/10/1887. That a Marxist newspaper disparaged against the first Spanish publication of "Das Kapital" reveals among other things that they were not terribly excited about some other party's publication producing a defective rendering of their guiding principles. On the other hand that "La República" had decided to publish the book was probably brought about by the foundation of "El Socialista" as they saw that the PSOE now had the means to spread their ideas throughout the country. It is in no small way possible that the haste to publish the book brought about the many defects in the translation from the French of Roy as Correa hurried to finish it.José Mesa y Leompart a typographer translator and Marxist ideologue and activist had experienced the upheavals of the Commune of Paris during his exile after the 1868 revolution. He developed a friendship with Marx's son in law Paul Lafargue and his wife Laura Marx-who themselves had been in exile in Spain during 1871-72- as well as with Engels with whom he shared much correspondence and many other figures of the Marxist movement. He also met both Marx and Engels during their exile in London. His friendship with Pablo Iglesias was a major driving force behind the formation of the PSOE and he collaborated with El Socialista both as a writer and as a financial supporter. Mesa writes to Engels in April of 1887 lamenting that some Spanish thinkers were using Marx's theories and the policies of the German Socialist Party to deny the concept of class struggle despite the fact that "we have … proven to them that you and Marx have always said the opposite and having quoted to them the very clear statements of the German Socialist Party; but they remain unmovable and at some point they even wanted to publish the abridged Capital by Deville without the preface and with notes interpreting the meaning in their own way-which we have impeded-the Resumen abridgement of Deville will soon be published faithfully translated into Spanish."Therefore as early as April of 1887 the present translation was already in progress and in fact according to Mesa soon to be published so it was apparently very advanced. It is then quite possible that Antonio Atienza was commissioned to translate the Deville's abridgement a few months earlier and not unlikely as far as 1886 when "La República" was still publishing installments of the Correa translation. The PSOE is obviously trying to obscure and minimize Correa's translation by publishing the Deville book as the task of translating "Das Kapital" from the original would be lengthy and costly and it would have come out too late to ascertain their political hold on Marx's ideas. This translation of Deville then sees the light is in the very midst of the bickering between leftist parties and is in fact a product of the confrontations between leftist ideologies. It was finally published about nine months after Mesa's letter to Engels. The first announcement in "El Socialista" appears in their November 11th 1887 issue. The price is four pesetas or about the cost of an entire year's subscription to the paper although subscribers could purchase it at half price. Still given that many subscribers were workers of scarce means less than three hundred copies were sent out to the main Spanish cities and that the total edition was probably about a thousand copies at most.The scarcity of this book can be underlined if one considers the virulent war that was waged against all socialist and Marxist literature during and after the Spanish Civil War by the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco. Book purges and burnings were considerable throughout Spain since the onset of the war in 1936. It is not that books were burnt sporadically and occasionally but rather they were destroyed in a systematic and terrifyingly efficient manner. As early as September of 1936 official orders were given to all civil governors mayors school inspectors in the nationalist areas to purge all "harmful" books such as pornography and books of a communist or Marxist content. Teachers librarians and private citizens often purged their own libraries public or personal of such works in order to comply with the official orders. Countless people were summarily executed for owning certain books that revealed their political tendencies. Obviously owning actual edition of a book by Marx was reason enough to be deemed guilty and likely executed. As the war advanced many other such official orders were issued and unfathomable numbers of books were burnt. To this is added that many libraries were burnt down during the bombardments that took place throughout the country and that all the libraries of the leftist parties were systematically destroyed. The end of the war in 1939 only made it official throughout the entire country that communist and socialist literature was banned. So even the few copies that might have survived the fires and the purges were surely disposed of by their owners. It is no small wonder that this particular copy did manage to survive.Withbound in the present volume is the first Spanish translation of Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" and Jules Guesde's work on the Law of Wages. See:Ribas Pedro. "La primera traducción castellana de El capital 1886 - 1887" in Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos Madrid junio de 1985 pp. 201-210.Castillo Santiago. "Marxismo y socialismo en el siglo XIX español" in Movimiento sociales y estado en la España contemporánea Manuel Ortiz et al coord. Universidad de Castila-La Mancha 2001Boza Puerta Mariano and Sánchez Herrador Miguel Ãngel. "El martirio de los libros: una aproximación a la destrucción bibliográfica durante la Guerra Civil." In BoletÃn de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios. Año nº 22 Nº 86-87 2007 págs. 79-96Tur Francesc. https://serhistorico.net/2018/04/04/el-bibliocausto-en-la-espana-de-franco-1936-1939/ </em> hardcover
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
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
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
18971230071897. First Edition. MARX Karl. The Eastern Question. A Reprint of Letters Written 1853-56 Dealing with the Events of the Crimean War. London: Swan Sonnenschein 1897. Thick octavo original purple-brown cloth. $1500.First edition of this collection of Marx letters related to the Crimean War published posthumously by Marx's daughter with two folding color maps of the Balkan Peninsula both during the Crimean War and decades later upon the publication of this book.The ""Eastern Question"" refers to the colonialist struggle for influence following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The question arose repeatedlynot just during the Crimean War but also during Balkan conflicts of the early 20th century. These letters originally appeared in the New York Tribune though many of them were written as correspondence by Marx rather than as articles for publication. Notably these letters are highly critical of Russia both its tendency toward ""aggrandizement"" and its lack of discipline. Free endpapers excised. Owner signature on title page.A few minor tears expert repairs and light edgewear to folding maps; only minor foxing to preliminary and concluding pages. Text block and inner hinges expertly repaired light wear to cloth mild toning to spine. An extremely good copy. hardcover
18991926Geneva: Heroysgegeben fun dem Allgemeynem Idishen arbeyṭer Bund in Russland un Poylen 1899. First Yiddish book edition. First edition of this translation. In somewhat later paper wrappers. Shelfmark vignette on the front cover. Possessor's stamp on the title page shelfmark on its verso. Possessor's stamp on p. 3 11 and 15. A tear on the title page with amateur restoration. Corners damaged with no loss of text. Pp. 93-4 torn at side edge and damaged at the lower corner with no loss of text. The last leaf slightly damaged at side edge affecting only the margin. Pages yellowed due to the acidic paper. Overall in very good condition. First Yiddish book edition. First edition of this translation. In somewhat later paper wrappers. <p><br /> First Yiddish edition in book form of the Communist Manifesto the greatest piece of revolutionary propaganda the first edition of Blumshteyn's translation prefaced by Karl Kautsky.<br /> <p><p><br /> The book was published by the General Jewish Labour Bund in Russia and Poland as a publication of the movement's party the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The Yiddish translation was initiated by Chaim Zhitlovsky a prominent member of the Bund in Switzerland. The Manifesto was eventually translated by Y. Blumshteyn with Yitskhok Toymin and published in 1899 in Geneva with Karl Kautsky's preface.<br /> <p><p><br /> There were some earlier attempts to interpret the first program of the international Communist movement for the Yiddish readers an adaptation of the first two sections appeared in the London-based Jewish anarchist paper "Der Arbeiter Freint" in 1890 later Abraham Kahan's translation appeared in installments in "Di Tsukunft" in New York in 1897. The present version is the first complete Yiddish translation to be published in a book form.<br /> <p><p><br /> Extremely scarce we could trace only four copies with identical collation in institutional holdings at Florida Atlantic University; Yivo; University of Wisconsin - Madison missing the last three pages and the back cover; and at the National Library of Israel. The Brandeis Library and Harvard College Library cite an 1899 edition with 122 p. the copy at the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam comprises 97 p. the copy at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is a photocopy.<br /> <p>. Heroysgegeben fun dem Allgemeynem Idishen arbeyṭer Bund in Russland un Poylen unknown
1873556962Leipzig.: Breitkopf und Härtel. 1873. Orig.Pappe. 2. Auflage. 8°. EInband berieben. Seiten lichtrandig. Gebrauchsspuren. Breitkopf und Härtel. unknown
