FIRST SWEDISH EDITION OF MARX' "CAPITAL"

MARX, KARL.

Kapitalet. Kritik av den politiska ekonomin. I svensk oversättning av Rickard Sandler. 3 vols.

Stockholm, Tidens Förlag, 1930-31.

8vo. Three volumes, all in the original publisher's uniform half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Extremities, especially capitals, with a bit of wear. Internally very fine and clean. XXII, (2), 740; XXIII, (1), 479, (1); XXV,(1), 836, (2) pp.

Scarce first edition of the first Swedish translation of "Das Kapital", which had an immense impact upon Swedish thought and politics.

The translation is made by the Swedish politician and previous social democratic prime minister and later foreign minister Rickard Johannes Sandler (1884 - 1964). He was a leading intellectual of the contemporary social democracy.

A second, severely criticized translation of the work into Swedish appeared 1969-73.

Order-nr.: 59980