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New York: Humboldt Publishing Co, N.d. [1890]. First Humboldt Edition. First printing. Presumed later issue, with ads undated but listing up to nos. 142-143 of the "Humboldt Library of Science" (Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, issued in 1890). Octavo (24cm). Publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on spine with designs stamped in black on front cover, in blind on rear cover; floral endpapers; xviii,[1]-506pp;[44]pp ads. Bookplate to front pastedown of Jefferson D. Stewart (Louisville, Kentucky banker and financier), whose pencil ownership signature, dated 1895, also appears on the title page. An exceptional copy in the publisher's cloth binding, minutely rubbed at joints and board corners; floral endpapers, so prone to splitting at the hinges, are fully intact and the text is fresh, bright and unmarked. Very close to a fine copy, and easily the best we have handled. The early publication history of this first volume of Marx's Capital in America* is…