The Sale of an Appetite
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] LAFARGUE, Paul
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gray cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners, light wear; Near Fine, with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper. Lafargue's classic anti-Capitalist parable, first published (in French) in 1900. This edition ranslated by Charles Kerr himself and illustrated with halftone plates by Dorothy Deene. Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), though best remembered as Karl Marx's son-in-law, was an important socialist critic and journalist in his own right, author of the famous and much-reprinted tract Le droit à la paresse ("The Right To Be Lazy") in 1887.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15715
- Title
- The Sale of an Appetite
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] LAFARGUE, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- Publisher
- Charles H. Kerr
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Socialism; Communism;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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