Search results for: 'the works'
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MARX, Karl. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Moscow : 1970
First edition, first printing, edited and introduced by Maurice Herbert Dobb, the founder of Marxist academia in Britain. This is the second English translation of Marx's Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (1859), the "germ" of Das Kapital. The Kritik was Marx's first attempt at a general statement of his theories, written following several years'... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 121362
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MARX, Karl. Autograph letter signed to Lucien-Léopold Jottrand.
Brussels : [1847]
An unpublished autograph letter signed in French, Marx's earliest known missive to the Belgian radical journalist and politician Lucien-Léopold Jottrand, president of the Democratic Association in Brussels, of which Marx became vice president. Under the influence of Marx and Engels, the Democratic Association would become one of the principal hubs... Learn More£130,000.00Stock Code: 132140
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MARX, Karl. Le Capital.
Paris : [1872-5]
First edition in French, first issue, a fine presentation copy, inscribed by Marx to the Frankfurt banker Sigmund Schott, with whom Marx exchanged ideas central to his philosophies and work: "Mr Sigmund Schott, de la part de l'auteur, Londres, 3 Novembre 1877" to the first engraved title page. Presentation copies of Capital are exceptionally rare, with... Learn More£575,000.00Stock Code: 128563
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MARX, Karl. [Opere.]
Rome : 1899-1902
First edition, a bound volume of 12 Italian translations of works by Marx, issued by Luigi Mongini in parts, each work separately paginated, but continuously signed.
"1899 would mark a further qualitative leap in the publication of Marx and Engels's texts in Italy, reaching a particular peak in the years between 1899 and 1902. This was the most... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123720
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MARX, Karl. Le Capital.
Paris : [1872-5]
First edition in French of the first volume of Das Kapital, the definitive text as authorized by Karl Marx, this being the first issue with Lachâtre's imprint. The book was published in parts from August 1872 to November 1875, here bound on completion. The first volume of Das Kapital was originally published in German in 1867. This French edition was... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135070
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MARX, Karl. [Index librorum banning Das Kapital from Russian public libraries.]
Saint Petersburg : 1894
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... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 124940
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MARX, Karl. Misère de la philosophie. Réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon.
Paris & Brussels : 1847
First edition of Marx's caustic attack on Proudhon, "the bitterest attack delivered by one thinker upon another since the celebrated polemics of the Renaissance" (Isaiah Berlin), one of 800 copies printed.
"In 1846 Proudhon published his celebrated book, La Philosophie de la Misère. He and Marx had remained friends, though their relation had... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 119971
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MARX, Karl. Il Capitale di Carlo Marx brevemente compendiato da Carlo Cafiero.
Milan : 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... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 128758
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MARX, Karl. Kapitaal en Arbeid.
The Hague : [1881]
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... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 137927
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.
Hamburg : 1867
First edition, advance review copy of the first volume of Das Kapital (stamped "Recensionsexemplar" on the front wrapper), with a printed slip issued by the publisher Otto Meissner, completed in manuscript two days after publication, inviting the editors of Die Grenzboten to publish a review. It is offered here with first editions of volumes 2 and 3,... Learn More£175,000.00Stock Code: 134105
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MARX, Karl. El Capital.
Madrid : 1886[-87]
Exceptionally 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 very small print run, thought to number no more than a thousand copies in total.
Pablo Correa... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 130328
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.
Hamburg : 1867
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed not quite a year after publication on the verso of the title, "Au citoyen César de Paepe, salut fraternel, Karl Marx, Londres 3 Septembre 1868", and with one small pencil correction to the text, also presumably by Marx. The Belgian César De Paepe (18411890) was the leader of the International Working Men's... Learn More£500,000.00Stock Code: 116802
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MARX, Karl. [Das Kapital, in Russian:] Kapital. Kritika politicheskoi ekonomii.
St Petersburg : 1872 & 1885 & 1896
First edition in Russian of all three volumes of Das Kapital, extremely rarely found complete. This was the first foreign translation of "the Bible of Marxism". Though the censors viewed its appearance complacently - "few people in Russia will read it, and fewer still will understand it" - the first volume, issued in 3,000 copies, was quite successful... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 127174
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MARX, Karl. Kapitalen.
Copenhagen : 1885 & 1887
First edition in Danish of Das Kapital. Marx's seminal work first appeared in German in 1867, and the first translation of the work was that into Russian (1872). The first English translation appeared after the Danish, in 1887.
"The history of the twentieth century is Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro the icons and monsters of the modern... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 122813
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.
Hamburg : 1872
Second edition of volume one of Marx's polemical masterpiece of political economy. Only the first volume of this most influential of books was published in Marx's lifetime, and though the later volumes were edited by Engels from the author's manuscript, the revised edition of volume I was edited by Marx himself and contains the first printing of his... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 145418
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MARX, Karl. Congrès Ouvrier de l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs tenu à Genève du 3 au 8 septembre 1866.
Geneva : 1866
First edition of this account of the 1866 Geneva Congress, the first congress of the International Workingmen's Association, commonly known as the First International. The Association had been founded in 1864 in London by French and British radicals, including the exiled Karl Marx, who delivered the inaugural address at that meeting. The first congress... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 128994
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.
Hamburg : 1885
First edition of the second volume of Das Kapital, edited from Marx's manuscripts by Friedrich Engels. "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. The Athenaeum... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 111888
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MARX, Karl. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.
London : 1887
First edition in English of Das Kapital, first issue, one of 500 copies printed; a remarkably well-preserved copy of a work rarely found without extensive repair. All subsequent English editions were based on this "authorized edition": it remained the standard text for the English-speaking public, and continued to be revised and republished... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 142462