MARX, Karl (1818-1883). Kapital'. Kritika Politicheskoi Economii . [Capital. A Critique of Political Economy]. Vol. 1. Translated by G.A. Lopatin and N.F. Daniel'son. St. Petersburg: N. P. Polyakov, 1872. 8° (238 x 151mm). Half-title. (Light browning in margins, some scattered spotting.) Contemporary dark-green quarter sheep, textured green cloth boards (edges rubbed, hinges starting). Custom-made black quarter morocco clamshell box, red morocco label on spine. FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN OF MARX'S GREAT POLEMIC -- THE FIRST TRANSLATION IN ANY LANGUAGE. '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 3000 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"' ( PMM ). Only the first volume of this fundamental text appeared in Marx's own lifetime. The printing of a second edition was forbidden in Russia, and in 1890 a New York publisher issued a nearly identical reprint sometimes mistaken for this first edition. Printing and the Mind of Man 359.
MARX, Karl (1818-1883). Kapital'. Kritika Politicheskoi Economii . [Capital. A Critique of Political Economy]. Vol. 1. Translated by G.A. Lopatin and N.F. Daniel'son. St. Petersburg: N. P. Polyakov, 1872. 8° (238 x 151mm). Half-title. (Light browning in margins, some scattered spotting.) Contemporary dark-green quarter sheep, textured green cloth boards (edges rubbed, hinges starting). Custom-made black quarter morocco clamshell box, red morocco label on spine. FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN OF MARX'S GREAT POLEMIC -- THE FIRST TRANSLATION IN ANY LANGUAGE. '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 3000 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"' ( PMM ). Only the first volume of this fundamental text appeared in Marx's own lifetime. The printing of a second edition was forbidden in Russia, and in 1890 a New York publisher issued a nearly identical reprint sometimes mistaken for this first edition. Printing and the Mind of Man 359.
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