Edward Aveling Translators (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. Reprint re-set from the 1889 sterotyped edition, first published in 1938 by Swan Sonnenschein, Lowey & Co. The book is in pretty good condition throughout with clean cloth boards, albeit a tad knocked at the corner tips, and clear titles to the spine. The end papers and page block edge have mild to moderate foxing but, otherwise there are no inscriptions or obvious marks. The dust jacket has done its job in protecting the book and is still fairly bright and not price clipped. That said it has definitely seen better days being heavily edge worn/creased, with tears and chipping and minor loss at the extremities.

[Political Economy / Marxism] COMPLETE HARDBACK EDITION, a later printing thus. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.767 [1]; pp.xii; 551 [1]; pp.xii; 948. With a frontispiece portrait of Marx to volume I. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines and uppers. With the orange typographic dust-jackets, not priced. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf of each volume. A little toned to edges, otherwise internally clean. Titles a little dulled, as usual. Jackets sunned to spines, and to the front cover of volume II. Partially-removed price labels to jacket flaps and rear panels. Very good. A foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, and one of the most influential works in modern political and economic thought.

[Political Economy / Marxism] FIFTH UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 816. Half title present. Publisher's dark olive cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to crown and tail in gilt, blind ruling to top and bottom edges of upper cover, publisher's tan foliate/monogrammed patterned endpapers. Contents clean without signs of ownership. Some light spotting within, inside paper joint lightly cracked at front, covers with a few minor marks and a little rubbing/wear to spine ends. A near fine copy. A foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, and one of the most influential works in modern political and economic thought. This is the fifth British edition (January 1896), reprinting the text of the first, which was issued in two volumes in 1886. This edition is also the final British printing of the nineteenth century and is desirable thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition; Fifth Printing. Original green cloth cover is frayed at corners and spine caps with light scuffing but clean and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Book is shaken. Page edges toned with very modest soiling. Split between patterned paste downs and end papers but hinges still strong. Former owner name and address on front patterned end sheet. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. .

Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. The first US appearance of Marx's groundbreaking work. This edition is a reissue in one volume of the first UK edition, by Swan Sonnenschein in 1887. It uses UK sheets with an Appleton title page. It almost certainly beats the Humboldt edition to the US market. That edition was released in parts in late 1890 (and in early 1891), and we assume the book version was produced around the same time (it does not have a dated title page). A Near Fine copy of the book. A small repair to the cloth at the crown and the front inner hinge repaired. Some mottling to the cloth. Internal contents are generally clean and fresh. Bookplate of Stephen A. Tyler (former Rice University Professor) on the front paste-down. A handsome copy overall. One of the most profound and influential thinkers of any age, Karl Marx (1818-1883) is known not only for championing socialism, but also for developing the social sciences, and his important work in economics and political philosophy. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, originally published in German as Das Kapital, is Marx's magnum opus and "one of the most consequential books in history" (Princeton). Written at the height of the industrial revolution while Marx lived in exile in the UK, the book is the culmination of his economic theory and a polemic against the evils of capitalism. Originally planned to be three volumes, only one volume was published during his lifetime, with the final two finished posthumously by Engels based on Marx's notes. This English version was translated by Samuel Moore (who also translated The Communist Manifesto) and Edward Aveling (the partner of Marx's youngest daughter, Eleanor). The text expresses Marx's historic materialism approach: more than just a theoretic or economic model, he looks at the historic record and the social circumstances that have led modern societies to embrace this economic system. Informed by Hegel's dialectics and materialism, Marx adopted a "natural history" method to demonstrate how societies develop economic classes as they attempt to structure themselves around certain types of labor. Capital argues that capitalism is driven by the exploitation of labor at the hands of the owners of the means of production. The capitalist's chronic desire to increase "value" results in an untenable system headed towards inevitable collapse. An incredibly influential bookone that inspired revolutionswhose impact is still felt today. Near Fine.