[2], 60, [1] leaves. With printed excerpts from "Capital" on versos of the leaves, an appropriate lithographic illustration by Hugo Gellert on the recto of the facing leaf. 25.5x17.5 cm (10x6¾"), burlap covered boards, pictorial endpapers. First Trade Edition.
Powerful lithographs by Hugo Gellert illustrating Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", considered as one of the best political works of the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Gellert (1892-1985) was a Hungarian-American printmaker and muralist, a radical socialist and member of the Communist Party of America.
