Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production by Marx, Karl; Moore, Samuel (Translator); Aveling, Edward (Translator); Engels, Frederick (Editor) - 1889

New York: The Humboldt Publishing Company, 1889. First Thus. About Very Good. First thus. (Cloth single-volume issue published around the time of a four-volume paperback issue, priority unknown. Ads in rear dated June 1889; apparently various uncatalogued states of these ads exist, as do later printings by Humboldt with horizontal black-banded bindings and plain endpapers. Perhaps the second American edition [The Ahearns think it's more likely the first edition] but definitely the first to be actually printed in the USA. Draper 129. PMM 359.) xviii, 506, (33, ads) pp. Original maroon buckram ruled in black, spine lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. About Very Good with dampstaining and discoloration to spine, corners slightly bumped and light rubbing along bottom edge of cloth, inexpert glue repair to hinge at front, a few marginal notes in easily-erasable pencil throughout. Gilt fairly bright. A rare early American edition of Marx's groundbreaking work of political economy Das Kapital, a spark which would eventually ignite many of the largest conflagrations of the 20th century.