"Laboristoj de ciuj lanoj, unuigu!"

Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Manifesto de la Komunista Partio. Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1908 [1907].

Small 8vo. 64 ff. (final page counted as p. 65). Publisher's blindstamped green cloth.

 25,000.00

First edition in Esperanto, translated by the American Esperantist and socialist Arthur Baker based on Engels's English text, which is printed on opposite pages. In Zamenhof's constructed language, introduced only in 1887, the famous sixty-year-old pamphlet begins with the words "Fantomo vizitadas Europon - la fantomo de la Komunismo", ending with: "Laboristoj de ciuj lanoj, unuigu!".

Spine sunned in places, otherwise fine.

References

Andréas 477-478 (5 copies only). Not in Adams, Radical Literature in America, or in Marx-Engels Erstdrucke. Cf. PMM 326.

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