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KARL MARX: Capital - A Critical Analysis Of Capitalist...

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KARL MARX: Capital - : A Critical Analysis Of Capitalist Production with handwritten dedication of Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Edvard Aveling (1849-1896)_x000D_ London, 1887, 2 vol., english, first edition_x000D_ 23 x 15 x 3 cm und 23 x 15 x 3,3 cm_x000D_ _x000D_ First English edition, published four years after Marx's death. Edited by Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, based on the expanded version in French, which was still monitored and expanded by Marx himself and which has appeared in deliveries since 1872. The first volume of the Capital was published in German in 1867 - in Hamburg - the only part published in German during Marx's lifetime. Parts II and III were posthumously edited by Engels on the basis of Marx's manuscript. The planned 4th part could only be published by Kautsky on the basis of the notes left by Marx._x000D_ The present copy of the rare English first translation is gaining additional interest because of the dedication on the end paper. On the end paper th