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Second English edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark navy cloth covered boards, dull blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Translated from the 3rd German edition of 1894. Contains portrait frontispiece, red and black printed title, (vi), 542 pp. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with finger marks to the light cream, paper covers. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHILOSOPHY.

8vo. 1¼ pp. on bifolium. To the publisher Maurice Lachâtre, detailing his conditions for an envisaged biography of Karl Marx and a history of the Communist Party: "Dans votre lettre du 16 mars, vous paraissez croire que 'je vous présente un livre sur le parti communiste' tandis que c est vous qui, en me demandant d écrire une biographie sérieuse de Marx, m aviez demandé l histoire de ce parti. Marx ayant mené une vie essentiellement active, raconter sa vie, c est faire l histoire du mouvement philosophique & révolutionnaire allemand & international depuis 1842 pour y tracer sa participation personnelle & l influence de ses écrits. Si vous ne désirez qu une biographie de reporter, c est déjà fait. L Illustration en a publié une, & si vous m en envoyez un exemplaire, je suis prêt d y faire les corrections nécessaires. L étude que je comptais faire devant être un travail sérieux, j aurais cru vous faire injure en supposant que vous qui dans cette affaire commerciale prenez le rôle de capitaliste, vous auriez voulu échapper à cette première règle sociale, appliquée même dans notre société bourgeoise, que le capitaliste paie le travailleur proportionnellement à son travail. Cependant, comme vous dites que vous n agrandissez votre capital que pour le mettre au service de la communauté, je consens à donner mon travail, à la condition que vous consacrerez une somme à la fondation d un organe international hebdomadaire dont le besoin est impérieux pour le parti, & que Marx rédigerait [.]". ("In your letter of March 16 you appear to believe that 'I present you a book on the Communist Party' although it is you who, in asking me to write a serious biography of Marx, has asked me for a history of the party. As he led an essentially active life, to recount Marx's life is to write the history of the German and international philosophical and revolutionary movement since 1842, so as to trace his personal participation and the influence of his writings. If you just expect a reporter's biography, that has already been done. 'L'Illustration' published one and if you send me a copy of it I am willing to do the necessary corrections. The study that I hoped to undertake must be a serious work. I would have believed to have wronged you in supposing that you, who in this commercial matter takes the role of the capitalist, would have wished to escape from that first social rule which is applied even in our bourgeois society that the capitalist pays the worker in proportion to his labor. However, since you say that you only increase your capital in order to allocate it to the community, I consent to give my labour under the condition that you will grant a sum to the foundation of an international weekly organ that is urgently needed by the party and that Marx would edit [.]"). - In a letter to Lachâtre from 16 March 1872, Engels had quite enthusiastically agreed to the project in principle but urged the publisher to set out his conditions. The response apparently left Engels dissatisfied. Although he was still willing to collaborate with Lachâtre, the project never came about. The present letter reveals the interesting detail that Engels planned to publish a weekly organ for the First International with Karl Marx as editor. Between 1872 and 1875 Maurice Lâchatre published the first French translation of "Das Kapital" and was therefore in close contact with Marx. - Slightly creased with traces of dog-ears to the lower corners. - Not in: Marx/Engels, Werke vol. 33 (Briefe Juli 1870 - Dezember 1874).

Small 8vo (112 x 179 mm). 4 pp. on bifolium (torn through the fold, thus in two separate leaves). Watermark: St. Margarets' Superfine. - (Includes:) Cabinet photograph of Helene Demuth (albumen print, vintage), 100 x 141 mm on cardboard (100 x 160 mm) of the studio Charles J. Gearing, London (after 1880). - (And:) Extract from the birth registers of St. Wendel, illustrating the kinship between Adolf Riefer and Helene Demuth. 2 pp. in-folio. To Adolf Riefer in Sarrebourg, Lorraine, announcing the death of Riefer's aunt Helene Demuth, who had long served as housekeeper to Marx and Engels: "Ich habe Ihnen heute die traurige Mittheilung zu machen, daß meine langjährige Freundin & seit sieben Jahren Hausgenossin, Ihre Tante Fräulein Helene Demuth am 4. des Mts. nach kurzer Krankheit sanft & schmerzlos gestorben ist. Wir waren seit 1845 befreundet, & als sie nach dem Tode meines Freundes Marx mir die Ehre & Freude erwies, die Leitung meines Hauswesens zu übernehmen, fingen für mich Jahre der Zufriedenheit, Ruhe & ich kann wohl sagen des häuslichen Glücks an, wie sie mir seit dem Tod meiner Frau 1878 nicht mehr gegönnt gewesen. Das ist nun alles dahin und für immer. Wir haben sie am Freitag, 7. Novbr. in demselben Grabe, wo auch Marx & Frau Marx beerdigt sind, zur Ruhe gelegt. Mit mir & den Töchtern von Marx betrauern Tausende von Freunden aller Nationen, in den Ebenen Amerikas wie in den politischen Gefängnissen Sibiriens & in allen Ländern Europas ihren Verlust. Die Verstorbene hat ein Testament gemacht, worin sie den Sohn einer verstorbenen Freundin, den sie von klein auf sozusagen an Kindesstatt angenommen, und der sich allmählig zu einem braven & tüchtigen Mechaniker herausgebildet, Frederick Lewis, zu ihrem alleinigen Erben eingesetzt hat. Derselbe hat seit längerer Zeit aus Dankbarkeit und mit ihrer Einwilligung den Namen Demuth angenommen [.]". Engels states the value of the inheritance ("etwa vierzig Pfund Sterling") and inserts the original English text of Demuth's will, with a German translation. Her last will is dated 4 Nov. 1890 and is declared in the presence of the three witnesses Engels, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Marx's youngest daughter), and her husband Eduard Aveling. - After the death of her father in 1826, Helene Demuth (1820-90) had to work as a maid servant early in her life. In 1837 she entered the service of the respected Westphalen family of Trier; their daughter Jenny married Karl Marx in 1843. In 1845 Demuth was sent to Brussels to support the couple as housekeeper; she would remain with the Marx family also in Paris, Cologne, and during their exile in London. Jenny Marx passed away in 1881, Karl Marx in 1883; subsequently, she was responsible for Engels' household. - Scholarship accepts that her sole heir, Frederick Lewis Demuth (1851-1929), was almost certainly the illegitimate son of Karl Marx and Helene Demuth. All her life the mother concealed the identity of the boy's father, lest the affair provide Marx's political enemies with ammunition; even in this letter Engels obscures the young man's ancestry. Named Frederick (after Engels), the child was given into the care of the Lewis family, whose surname he took; his relations to his half-siblings are said to have remained easy all his life. Undoubtedly he ended up happier than they did: "Four of Marx's children predeceased him, and the two survivors both killed themselves. The only member of the family to escape the curse was Freddy Demuth, who lived and worked quietly in east London. He died of cardiac failure on 28 January 1929, aged seventy-seven. To the end, neither he nor anyone else suspected that Freddy might be a son of the man whose face and name were, by then, known throughout the world" (Wheen, Marx, p. 386). - Includes an original cabinet photograph of Helene Demuth, showing the housekeeper nearly in full figure at an advanced age (identified on the verso by a later hand in pencil and dated "1890"). - Further includes extracts from the birth registers of St Wendel, which show how Adolf Riefer was related to Helene Demuth: she was the sister of his mother, Katharina Riefer, née Demuth. - Further includes a typed letter from the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the SED Central Committee, to be issued by Tenner to the successful bidder, requesting a "high-quality photocopy" and "precise description of the photographs" (10 Oct. 1984, 1½ pp., 4to), signed by the Institute's deputy director, Professor Dr. Heinrich Gemkow (1928-2017). - Spuren alter waag- und senkrechter Mittenfaltung; Durchrisse in der Querfaltung fachmännisch restauriert (geringfügige Beeinträchtigung einer Zeile in der deutschen Übersetzung des Testaments). - 1) Tenner, Heidelberg, sale 149 (1984), lot 16 & 17 (catalogue entries included in photocopy). - 2) German private collection. - 3) Hermann Historica, Grasbrunn, 17 Oct. 2023, lot 3343.