Dos Kapital: Kritik fun der Politisher Ekonomye.

MARX, KARL.

Kropotkin

New York

1917-18

FIRST YIDDISH EDITION. Two volumes. Volume 1: pp. 477, [2]. * Volume 2: pp. 406.

First Yiddish edition of Marx’s monumental critique of capitalist economics. Translated by Jacob Merison (1866-1941) from Karl Kautsky’s edition. Merison was also the translator into Yiddish of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (see lot 106). A physician, born into a rabbinical family in Vilna, Merison was one of New York’s leading anarchists and the author in his own right of such titles as The Principles of Anarchism and The Theory and Practice of Anarchism. He was also sometime editor of the anarchists’ Yiddish newspaper, The Free Voice of Labor.