{"product_id":"marx-karl-friedrich-engels-editor-ernest-untermann-translator-capital-a-critique-of-political-economy","title":"MARX, Karl; Friedrich ENGELS (editor); Ernest UNTERMANN (translator). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003ci\u003e, Translated on a Florida Chicken Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARX, Karl; Friedrich ENGELS (editor); Ernest UNTERMANN (translator).\u003c\/strong\u003e Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. \u003ci\u003eChicago: Charles H. Kerr \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e. 1908–9.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, borders filleted in blind; vol. I: pp. 869, [1 (blank)]; vol. II: pp. 618; vol. III: pp. [2 (blank)], 1048; numerous tables within text; extremities a little rubbed, upper corner of front board of vol. II lightly creased; slight staining to endpapers and title of vol. III, lightly toned throughout; nonetheless a very good set; early ownership inscription ?Eduard to front flyleaf of vol. III (struck out) and ‘E. Round’ in ink, black ink deaccession stamp of the Handsworth Peoples Cultural Association below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMixed edition of the first complete English translation of Marx’s Das Capital (Capital): vol. I is the 1908 printing; vol. II the 1909 printing; and vol. III the 1909 first printing. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolumes I and II were respectively copyrighted in 1906 and 1907. Although the third volume of Capital had been published posthumously in German in 1894, it was not translated into English until the Kerr edition, completed between 1906 and 1909. The first volume follows the translation of Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (who had been commissioned to translate the first portion by Engels), and volumes two and three are the work of seaman, translator, socialist author, and newspaper editor Gerhard Ernest Untermann (1864–1956), a member of the Socialist Labor Party of America and a regular contributor to the International Socialist Review.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe began work on his translation in 1905, whilst living on a chicken farm in Orlando, Florida. ‘The conditions and the location of the place in which I translate volumes II and III of this work made it impossible for me to get access to the original works of the authors quoted by Marx. I was compelled, under these circumstances, to retranslate many quotations from English authors’ (vol. II, p. 30).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126467\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65052295758201,"sku":"2126467","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126467.jpg?v=1793380340","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/marx-karl-friedrich-engels-editor-ernest-untermann-translator-capital-a-critique-of-political-economy","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}