The Sale of an Appetite de Paul Lafargue - 1904

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gray cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners, light wear; Near Fine, with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper. Lafargue's classic anti-Capitalist parable, first published (in French) in 1900. This edition ranslated by Charles Kerr himself and illustrated with halftone plates by Dorothy Deene. Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), though best remembered as Karl Marx's son-in-law, was an important socialist critic and journalist in his own right, author of the famous and much-reprinted tract Le droit à la paresse ("The Right To Be Lazy") in 1887.