Laura Lafargue’s presentation copy of "Le Capital"

Marx, Karl. Le Capital. Critique de l’Économie Politique, avec un préface de Friedrich Engels. Livre II: Le Procès de Circulation du Capital - Livre III: Le Procès d’Ensemble de la Production Capitaliste (I-II).

€ 7.500,00

Presentation copy from Marx’s daughter: the first French translation of Books II and III of "Le Capital", issued in three volumes with Engels' preface, here preserved in the original wrappers and inscribed by Laura Lafargue to Antonio Labriola on the half-titles of the first two volumes: "Au citoyen Labriola / Amities / Laura Lafargue" and "A Antonio Labriola, l'auteur de In Memoria del Manifesto dei Comunisti. Laura Lafargue".

Translated by Julian Borchardt and Hippolyte Vanderrydt from the texts edited by Engels in 1885 and 1894, this edition made Marx’s posthumous economic architecture newly available to the francophone socialist world at the turn of the century. Produced at the Institut des sciences sociales in Brussels, it stands among the foundational continental editions of the completed "Capital".

This copy gains particular historical force from its provenance. Antonio Labriola was among the earliest and most authoritative interpreters of Marxism in Italy, and Laura Lafargue’s presentation places these volumes directly within the intimate international network through which Marx’s thought was transmitted, argued, and consolidated after Engels' death. The association is deepened by the later marks of Teresa Labriola and of the Biblioteca Dal Pane, preserving a clear trajectory of socialist intellectual ownership.