2 Karl Marx first editions are documented on this shelf, from Capital (Das Kapital), Volume I -- first English translation (1887) to Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (1887) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Karl Marx title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Capital (Das Kapital), Volume I -- first English translation — 1887 · Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.First edition in English of Volume I, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling from Engels's third German edition (1883) and edited and authorized by Friedrich Engels; published January 1887. Although a translation of a single German volume, it was itself issued in two physical volumes (pp. xxxi,[1],363; [ii],365-816), bound in the publisher's original plum cloth with floral endpapers. Engels supervised the…. D. Appleton & Co. of New York issued an 1889 printing using the identical sheets printed in London for the Swan Sonnenschein edition, rebound with a new Appleton title leaf as a single volume rather than two -- a secondary issue from the same setting, not the true first. The complete English Capital in three volumes (Engels having compiled Volumes II and III from Marx's manuscripts after Marx's death) was not….
Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production — 1887 · Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co.First English translation of Volume I of Das Kapital to appear as an authorized, complete book, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co., published January 1887, four years after Marx's death, issued in two octavo volumes in the publisher's original cloth. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling -- the longtime partner of Marx's daughter Eleanor, popularly though not legally styled Marx's son-in-law --…. The 1887 Swan Sonnenschein edition is the first complete English translation of Volume I to appear as an authorized book; it was preceded by partial, unauthorized renderings in the magazine To-Day (extracts from the French edition in 1883, and a serialized translation of the first ten chapters by Henry Hyndman, under the pseudonym John Broadhouse, beginning October 1885). The 1889 New York reprint (D. Appleton & Co.) uses the identical Swan Sonnenschein typesetting but issues it in a single volume rather than two; it reproduces the 1887 sheets and is not a separate edition.

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