Karl MARX, Joseph ROY (trans.)
Le Capital
Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie|Paris s. d. [1875]|19.50 x 28 cm|relié
First edition in French, translated by Joseph Roy, partly previously unpublished, with corrections and additions by Karl Marx.
Complete with the two title pages addressed to Lachatre, a frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx, the facsimile of his letter to the publisher and his reply on the verso, removed from later editions.
Simple contemporary bronze half-cloth binding, smooth spine framed in gilt, gilt title, bookbinder's ticket at foot of the pastedown, "Buchbinderei Schey & Co, Zürich".
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This first French edition of 'Das Kapital' was published in parts between 1872 and 1875, but met with no success, as the publisher writes in a letter to Marx dated 24 December 1873:
Complete with the two title pages addressed to Lachatre, a frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx, the facsimile of his letter to the publisher and his reply on the verso, removed from later editions.
Simple contemporary bronze half-cloth binding, smooth spine framed in gilt, gilt title, bookbinder's ticket at foot of the pastedown, "Buchbinderei Schey & Co, Zürich".
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This first French edition of 'Das Kapital' was published in parts between 1872 and 1875, but met with no success, as the publisher writes in a letter to Marx dated 24 December 1873:
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