[MARX, KARL]. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938.
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[MARX, KARL]. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy [Vol. II: The Process of Circulation of Capital]. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1907.
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[MARX, KARL]. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy [Vol. III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole]. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1909.
Early printings in English of Das Kapital, together forming the complete work in three volumes. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (22.5cm x 14.5cm), pp. xxxi, 882; 618; 1048. English text:- vol. I translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore & Edward Aveling (edited by Frederick Engels), vol. II translated from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann, and vol. III translated from the first German edition by Ernest Untermann. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, titles to spines in yellow, vol. I with half-title verso showing a facsimile of the title-page to the first English edition. Printed footnotes, some tables in the text, indexes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Bindings tight and secure. Slight marks to covers and fading to spine titles. Interiors with some light toning and very occasional pen and pencil annotations. A sound set.
Notes: Marx's polemical masterpiece, Das Kapital was the culmination of almost 25 years of research, and represents the most significant and influential analysis of capitalism ever written. The first volume of Das Kapital was published in German in 1867, and first translated into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling in 1887. This edition follows that translation for the first volume, revised in light of Engels's third German edition; here dated 1938. The second and third volumes were published in German in 1885 and 1894 respectively. They are here first translated into English by Ernest Untermann. "The history of the twentieth century is Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro - the icons and monsters of the modern age have all presented themselves as his heirs. Whether he would recognise them as such is quite another matter. Nevertheless, within one hundred years of his death half the world's population was ruled by governments that professed Marxism to be their guiding faith. His ideas have transformed the study of economics, history, geography, sociology and literature. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted" (Francis Wheen, in his introduction to Karl Marx, 1999). Rubel 633, 635-6.
