Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals.
Rare first edition of the first volume of Das Kapital, the only one to appear in Marx’s lifetime; one of 1,000 copies printed. Two further volumes were published from his manuscripts by Engels, in 1885 and 1894 respectively. The first volume of Das Kapital was published on 14 September 1867 in Hamburg, issued in printed wrappers. “Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik de politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century’s economic studies, mostly in the Reading Room of the British Museum.
William Morris’s marked-up copy for printing the Kelmscott Press edition of Utopia, published 1893.
A fascinating insight into the working methods of Morris and the Kelmscott Press.
William Morris’s printer’s copy with pencil notes and markings in his hand throughout and his cut signature in ink mounted on front pastedown, also with annotations in ink by the editor F. S. Ellis and his note at end “Read for the press after the old copy by F. S. Ellis & imprinted &c”. Subsequently Robert Proctor’s copy with his bookplate; his widow’s label “Given by Mrs. Proctor in memory of William Morris & of her son Robert Proctor” on front pastedown; and with manuscript notes in Sir Sydney Cockerell’s hand “The text from which the Kelmscott Press edition of ‘Utopia’ was set up, with pencil directions as to initials etc. in the autograph of William Morris” on the pastedown and “To the Public Library, Chelsea” on front free endpaper.
First edition of Ricardo’s fundamental contribution to the science of economics. Ricardo is credited with the first systematic and scientific approach to economics; his exact mathematical approach and careful deductive methods provided a model for future texts in the field. Ricardo’s interest in political economy was aroused in 1799 by a chance reading of Adam Smith.
Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Tome premier.
Very rare first edition in French of the Wealth of Nations. This is the first complete translation of the text; an extract, Fragment sur les colonies en général, et sur celles des anglois en particulier, translated by Reverdil, had been published in Lausanne and Basel earlier in 1778 to test public demand for the work. “‘This translation of the 1776 English edition of WN has remained a mystery. Was it printed in The Hague? If not, where was it printed? Who was M***, identified on the title pages as the translator? Copies are rare within French libraries” (Carpenter).
Adam Douglas presents this first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Young Lions. This is Hemingway’s annotated copy, marked by him in two campaigns in March 1949 and January 1950 and presented to his Italian friend, Carlo Kechler, identifying places in the text where Hemingway accused Shaw of maligning his younger brother, Leicester Hemingway (1915–1982), the basis of the character Leroy Keane in the novel.
Hemingway’s presentation inscription pencilled on the front free endpaper reads in full: “For Carlo from Ernesto. Marked from 527 on (annotated) EH. 2/3/49 / 22/11/50 San Martino di Codroipo EH. Museum Piece – Do not Fold. EH.” Carlo Kechler was one of three brothers, Italian aristocrats with whom Hemingway went duck hunting in Friuli. Hemingway’s time with the Kechlers formed part of the backdrop to Across the River and Into the Trees (1950).
Irwin Shaw had served in Europe during the Second World War in the same documentary film unit as Hemingway’s younger brother Leicester, and Shaw used Leicester as the model for his character Leroy Keane, an obnoxious communications clerk striving to live up to the image of an elder brother who had been a hero of the First World War.
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