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MARX (KARL) AND ENGELS Manifesto of the Communist Party, FIRST AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1888
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MARX (KARL) AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Manifesto of the Communist Party, FIRST AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION, a few pencil annotations, light toning and spotting, original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, light foxing and spots on upper cover [cf. PMM 326 (first edition)], 8vo, William Reeves, 1888
Footnotes
"Of exceptional importance was the authorized English translation of 1888 (by Samuel Moore, translator of Marx's Das Kapital), the only translation personally edited and annotated by Engels, although he edited and prefaced a German text published in London in 1890" (PMM).
Rare at auction, only three copies traced since 1963.

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