A Rare Copy of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' Is Going Up for Auction

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Dust off that old LP of Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, briefly reminisce about a time when Saint Petersburg was Leningrad, and pray for an enormous pay raise, because a signed, first edition copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital is going to auction—and it's going to cost you.

The book is signed and inscribed to Johann Georg Eccarius, a fellow member of League of the Just, the fledgling version of Marx and Frederick Engel's Communist League. It's dated September 18, 1867.

Eccarius and Marx were good buddies, but some shady shit went down and the two eventually stopped speaking. At one point in their rocky relationship, Marx even accused Eccarius of being a paid police informant, but Eccarius—who was general secretary of the International Workingmen's Association—held onto the book.

The book remained in Eccarius's family and is now being sold complete with a unique bookmark—a British Library reading room ticket.

Simon Roberts, senior books specialist at Bonhams in London, where Das Kapital will be auctioned June 15, says the item is "a stunningly important copy of a book that changed the world" and expects it'll sell for £120,000, or $174,000 USD.

It goes without saying Marx wouldn't have been down with anyone paying nearly $200,000 for anything, but maybe the dude who bought the statue of Adolf Hitler for $17.2 million has some cash left over.