Das Kapital.: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Zweite verbesserte Auflage.

Hamburg: Otto Meissner,, 1872. In contemporary half sheep Second edition of volume one of Marx's polemical masterpiece of political economy, revised by the author from the first edition of 1867. Only the first volume of this most influential of books was published in Marx's lifetime, and though the later volumes were edited by Engels from the author's manuscript, the revised edition of volume I was edited by Marx himself and contains the first printing of his ten page afterword. It was the summation of over twenty years research in the reading rooms of the British Museum, and followed on from his earlier work Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, printed in 1859. Octavo (212 x 135 mm). Contemporary purple half sheep, spine lettered in gilt, mottled paper sides. Bound without half-title and terminal advertisement leaf. Pencilled annotations. Somewhat worn, front free endpaper lacking, rear endpapers with pencilled scribbling and contemporary ownership stamp to rear free endpaper, contents browned, stained, and foxed, a few signatures standing a little proud, paper repairs to title page and to fore edge of pp. 3-10 not affecting text, frequent paper repairs in gutter often with loss to lettering, pp. 359-362 reinserted at head, various minor chips occasionally with some loss to lettering. A sound copy in a contemporary German binding. Rubel 633.