8vo. 148pp. With half-title. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with printed paper label and blind-stamp of the New York International Publishers to upper board. With original printed paper dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper browned and chipped, with tearing to edges and small losses to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp.

The first American edition, published by Marxist publishing house International Publishers, of a collection of correspondence sent from Karl Marx to close friend and confidant Louis Kugelmann (1828-1902) between the years of 1862 and 1874. The letters, which contain both notable biographical anecdotes and theoretical musings by Marx on the Paris Commune, are prefaced with a contextual evaluation by Vladimir Lenin.