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Karl Marx (1818-1883) Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie. Berlin: Franz Duncker, 1859. First edition, octavo, one of 1,000 copies printed of Marx's first sketches of his economic theories that preceded the writing of Das Kapital; bound in contemporary half red sheep with textured red paper boards; with interesting German-American provenance, bearing the blind embossed stamp of John Endlich (1819-1892), who was born in Germany but returned frequently after emigrating and served as U.S. Consul to Basel, Switzerland under Buchanan; and signature on title page of his son, Judge Gustave Endlich (1856-1929), who was educated in Germany, attended Princeton and served as a judge in Pennsylvania; binding worn and bumped; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. [Bound with] Edward Pickford's (1823-1866) Einleitung in Die Wissenschaft Der Politischen, Oekonomie, Frankfurt: Sauerlander, 1860; [and] Pickford's Ueber die Freiheit von John Stuart Mill, Frankfurt: Sauerlander, 1860. In the preface to this work, whose title in English is: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, in English, Marx presents his theory of Historical Materialism for the first time. In it, he acknowledges that technological developments transform the modes of production and thereby human labor and the overall economic system. Change to the system can be brought on through changes to the modes of production. "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."