Marx, Karl (1818-1883). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906, 1933, 1909.

3 volumes, 8vo. Original red cloth, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance: ownership inscription on front free endpaper of each volume; old pencil notation on verso of leaves at rear of Vols. I and III.

Mixed edition: FIRST EDITIONS of vols. I and III; vol.2 a later printing. The Kerr edition is the first US edition of Marx's complete three-volume work, commonly known by its German title, Das Kapital. The magnum opus of Karl Marx, Das Kapital, was a work so feared that it was buried in prisons, banned from circulation amid anti-communist hysteria in the United States, suppressed when it challenged party doctrine under Stalin, and condemned by modern authoritarian regimes for its dangerous power to provoke dissent and independent thought.

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Marx, Karl (1818-1883). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906, 1933, 1909.

Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

Marx, Karl (1818-1883). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906, 1933, 1909.

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