The Condition of the Working Class in England
1950, a Bulgarian Communist Party edition
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Printing Details
Hardback, quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Printed titling to front. 20.5 × 14cm, 400pp. Bulgarian text.
This copy has a previous owner's inscription to the ffep in Bulgarian which when translated reads "To Brigita, my dear friend, Peter, 1952". These were Brigita Yosifova, a Bulgarian author and journalist, and Peter Tempest, a British poet and translator. They went on to marry shortly afterwards.
Engels's view of capitalism as a justification for the rich to exploit the poor and uneducated had been developed in his first book The Condition of the Working Class in England of 1844. In often revolutionary language, it draws on his experiences while living in Manchester, then at the heart of the industrial revolution. Engels was horrified by the child labour, environmental damage, low wages, bad conditions, poor health, death rates – and the ‘social and political power of your oppressors’. Containing many important and ground-breaking early thoughts on socialism, the book is still widely relevant today.
Condition
Good condition. There is wear to the boards edges, and the pages are comprehensively tanned. Weakening to the inner binding between pages 16 & 17, and some marking to the pages. Otherwise a good readable copy of an unusual edition.
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£20.00
