by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
First American edition
New York: The Humboldt Publishing Company, 1889. [1889]. First American edition, translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels. Two editions were published in America in 1889, the other by Appleton with the priority undecided. Bound in publisher's original maroon buckram tripple-ruled in black, spine lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to cloth, light fading to spine, small water droplet to top edge of textblock. Front inner hinge exposed but binding firm, front free endpaper is detached and laid in, and with a single-digit number inked to the top corner. Pages toned. Marx's groundbreaking work of political economy Das Kapital, a spark which would eventually ignite many of the largest conflagrations of the 20th century.