Karl Marx; A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1907, an early Russian edition - Къ критикѣ политической экономіи.

An early Russian edition of Marx's A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, a significant precursor to Capital, examining commodities, value and money. First published in German in 1859, the work includes Marx's influential preface outlining his materialist conception of history. This edition, translated by P. P. Rumyantsev and published in St Petersburg a decade before the Russian Revolution, comes from the library of economic historian and Marx biographer Vincent Barnett, with his ownership signature.

Къ критикѣ политической экономіи. Карлъ Марксъ. Переводъ съ нѣмецкаго П. П. Румянцева.

K kritike politicheskoi ekonomii [A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy], by Karl Marx. Translated from the German by P. P. Rumyantsev.

Published by Шиповникъ [Shipovnik], Санкт-Петербург [St Petersburg], 1907. An early Russian edition.

Provenance: Most recently from the collection of Vincent Barnett, a noted Research Fellow in the fields of History, Russian Studies and Economics, and biographer of Karl Marx, with his work 'Marx' published in 2009. The book with his signature to first free endpaper. The book is also an ex-library book from Minneapolis Public Library, with the usual library markings, and 'withdrawn' stamp. Also with small bookseller's sticker of M. Appel in New York to first pastedown.

A good dark green cloth hardback with title to spine - a library binding - at the rear, the original blue rear wrapper is retained, so this book is likely to have been issued in card wraps initially. With light wear and fraying and slight loss to to head of spine. The spine with faded gilt title. The rear cover with more markings and some prominent ring marks.. Plain endpapers with various library marks and residue.

Title page with previous owner's translated pencil translations (removable). Text pages are clean and legible, but with age-toning and signs of wear.

Text in Russian.

XVI + 192pp (including final page of Publisher's advertisements). 

Dimensions: approx 221mm high x 151mm wide x 14mm deep.

Weight: approximately 324g (unpacked).