MARX, Karl "Capital" [Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957–1959]

MARX, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Three volumes.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957–1959. 9" x 6", xii + 807 + x + 546 + xi + 923pp. Complete three-volume set comprising Volume I: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (1959), Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital (1957), and Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole (1959). Publisher's blue embossed cloth bindings in original printed dust jackets, now housed in Mylar protectors. Jackets toned and worn with scattered staining and chipping, as pictured. Bindings sound and well-preserved beneath the jackets. Very Good books in Good jackets.

The principal English-language edition of Marx's economic masterpiece issued by the Soviet state publishing apparatus during the Cold War. Edited from the standard Engels-prepared texts and produced for international distribution, these Moscow printings were intended to disseminate Marxist economic theory to English-speaking readers throughout the world. As such, they represent not merely a reprinting of Capital but a notable artifact of Soviet publishing and ideological outreach during the Khrushchev era.