Capital: A Critique of Political Economy: Volume 1, The Process of Capitalist Production

MARX, Karl. Edited by Frederick Engels.

First American edition, first printing, published by Charles H. Kerr & Company. From the fourth German edition. First volume of the three prepared by Ernest Untermann. Condition is VG with light shelf wear to the edges and corners of the red cloth boards ( please refer to photos).

Karl Marx’s seminal work in both economic and political thought. 1st of three volumes, bound in original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels.

Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik des Politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century's economic studies". The 'Athenaeum' reviewer of the first English translation (1887) later wrote: 'Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital, Karl Marx's work is principally a polemic against capitalists and the capitalist mode of production, and it is this polemical tone which is its chief charm.' The historical-polemical passages, with their formidable documentation from British official sources, have remained memorable; and, as Marx". wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press, 'I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest of their lives.' Scarce.