It is inscribed by Marx to Wilhelm Strohn, a cloth merchant and political liberal who had conducted the negotiations with the Hamburg publisher Otto Meißner.
Strohn’s friendship with Marx and Engels went back to the time of the Cologne Labour Education Association at the end of the 1840s but their relationship developed in the mid- 1860s when Strohn helped find a suitable publisher for Das Kapital.
First edition dedication copy of Das Kapital, €100,000 (£84,500) at Ketterer Kunst.
This, seemingly unread copy (some of the leaves still stuck together at the edges) came for sale from the family of the dedicatee. It sold just below the guide at €100,000/£84,500 (€137,500 including premium).
