Engels Fredrich (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rare. Undated. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in Very Good condition for its age. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Condition: très bon. Paris, éditions Albatroz, collection Textes Térébenthine, 1991. Dessins extraits de la revue "La Critique sociale" n° 5, de mars 1932. Texte de présentation de l'éditeur. Plaquette in-8 broché de 27 pp., contenant une douzaine de caricatures par F. Engels. Très bon état. Livres.

Condition: very good. Hbk 365pp no dj (perhaps as issued) very good maroon cloth boards, lightly bumped at the lower corners, gilt spine-titles slightly dulled but still entirely legible, now in custom acetate jacket, internally an excellent clean tight unmarked text, becoming harder to find.

The first authorised UK edition of Engels' major work in the distinctive publisher's red cloth. Engels (1820-1895) lived in England for the majority of his adult life, first in Manchester where he worked in his father's textile mill, and afterwards in London where he resided from 1870 until his death twenty-five years later. His eyewitness account of the poor working conditions, child labour, and disease almost universally present in the manufacturing towns of the period became an instant classic when it was first published in Leipzig in 1845. 'In particular his description of the spatial configuration of Manchester, constructed in such a way that its affluent burghers need never confront the squalor and misery upon which their wealth was based, has been seen as a decisive symbol for the invisibility of the conditions in which wealth under capitalism was produced' (ODNB). The Condition of the Working-Class was not translated into English until 1885 when the American social reformer Florence Kelley brought-out an edition authorised by Engels that was published in New York in 1887. To this edition, the first authorised to be published in the United Kingdom, Engels added a new preface with the qualification that the 'production bears the stamp of his youth', and that the 'state of things described in this book belongs to-day, in many respects, to the past, as far as England is concerned' (Preface). First authorized UK edition; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); printer's device to title, 4pp. publisher's ads to rear, occasional pencil annotations, moderate spotting; publisher's red cloth, upper cover stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, spine faded, corners rubbed with loss, lower cover a little faded, slightly soiled; xix, [1], 298, [2], 4[ads]pp.…