Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 193
MARX, KARL.

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.

<<FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH.>> Two volumes. Edited by Frederick Engels. Translated from the German by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (Marx’s son-in-law). Light wear. Original boads, rubbed, upper portion of backstrip of Vol. II lacking. Sm. 4to.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co 1887

Est: $1,500 - $2,000
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Born in the Prussian town of Trier, where his paternal lineage had supplied rabbis for more than a century, Karl Marx (1818-83) was one of the most significant philosophers in modern history, having had a vast influence on both intellectual thought and world politics. See Printing and the Mind of Man, number 359.