Marx, Karl

8vo (225 x 140mm.), first edition, uncut in the original printed wrappers, morocco-backed chemise and slipcase by A. Devauchelle, wrappers slightly creased, neat repairs to spine

Draper ST/M 51; Rubel 567

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Rare first edition of Marx's justification of his political and scientific work; an exceptional copy  in the original wrappers.

Marx took a year away from the writing of Das Kapital to answer the slanders against himself, Engels and their supporters which appeared in Karl Vogt's 1859 pamphlet Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung. In his pamphlet, Vogt "reached for the foulest slanders against Communists ... [alleging] that they engaged in secret and violent conspiracies and that Marx acted among them like a dictator. In this book Marx answers Vogt line for line and charge for charge ... [and] spares neither wit nor invective in demolishing his opponent" (R.A. Archer, preface to his translation of Herr Vogt, 1982).