[Rarebooks] FS: First Russian edition of Marx' Kapital

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:


Marx, Karl. KAPITAL. KRITIKA POLITICHESKOI EKONOMII. S.-Peterburg 
[St. Petersburgh]: Izd. N.P. Poliakova. 1872. xiii, [3], 678 pp. 8vo. 
Half contemporary Russian roan over black cloth, four raised bands, 
two compartments with Cyrillic lettering in gilt. PMM 359. First 
edition in Russian. T. 1-j, kn. 1-ja. Process proizvodstva kapitala. 
Translated from the German by G. Alexandrovich Lopatin and Nikolay 
Frantsevich Danielson (who went on to complete the final two 
volumes). True first edition with proper points.

The most important work on political economy in the 19th century and 
one whose effect in the 20th century cannot be overestimated. "By an 
odd quick of history the first foreign translation of Das Kapital to 
appear was the Russian, which Petersburghers found in their bookshops 
early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur, the censor, one Skuratov, 
had written 'few people in Russia will read it, and still fewer will 
understand it'. He was wrong; the edition of three thousand sold out 
quickly; and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F.A. Sorge that 
'our success is still greater in Russia where Kapital is read and 
appreciated more than anywhere else'," (Printing and the Mind of Man, 
p. 218).

Boards rubbed and stained, front endpapers soiled, most of rear 
endpaper removed, faint dampstain to lower portion of leaves, but 
overall still a very good copy.  [34367] $11,500.00


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