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an old book with a picture of a man with a beard
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Marx, Karl Capital. Extracts compiled by Mr Paul Lafargue. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Paris, Guillaumin, undated (1893). 2 leaves, LXXX, 176 pp. 12°. Original cloth binding with black-stamped front and back titles (worn and slightly bumped). First edition of this selection of texts from Marx’s *Capital*, published in the series ‘Petite bibliothèque économique française et étrangère’. – With a stamped mark on the half-title page that has been scraped off. – French translation of extracts from Karl Marx’s famous work *Capital*. The selection of texts was made by Paul Lafargue, a French socialist and Marx’s future son-in-law. After being expelled from all French universities due to his involvement in the International Students’ Congress in Liège in 1865, Lafargue went to London, where he met Marx and, consequently, his daughter Laura. A central tenet of Lafargue’s political stance was his critique of consumption under capitalism. - Pages yellowed. Book block slightly loose. Overall in very good condition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original cloth with black-stamped titles on cover and spine (rubbed and slightly bumped). - First edition of this selection of texts from Marx’s *Capital*, published in the series *Petite bibliothèque économique française et étrangère*. - With a stamp removed from the half-title. - French translation of excerpts from Karl Marx’s famous work *Capital* (*Das Kapital*). The texts were selected by Paul Lafargue, a French socialist and Marx’s future son-in-law. After being expelled from all French universities due to his participation in the International Student Congress in Liège in 1865, Lafargue went to London, where he met Marx and, subsequently, Marx’s daughter Laura. A central aspect of Lafargue’s political stance was his critique of consumption under capitalism. – Pages browned. Book block cracked. Overall in very good condition.
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