Search Results: the sale of an appetite by paul lafargue

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1904. First US Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dorothy D. Deene. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, still has the original glassine dust jacket. Glassine is yellowed, torn with chips, but has done an excellent job and protecting the cover of the book. Tan cloth boards were still clean and bright though paper label as minor foxing. Front end page and pastedown shows the original owner's name and signature. Remaining pages are good and binding is tight, no hinge issues, tissue guards are still present and bright.