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The Communist Manifesto [Collectors Edition Cloth Hardcover]

The Communist Manifesto [Collectors Edition Cloth Hardcover]
By Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

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This title is the cloth hardcover colelctors edition of the classic communist party manifesto which started this one and a half decade political movement. The seven rarely published prefaces, mostly written by Frederick Engels after the death of Karl Marx, are included making this publication the complete communist manifesto. Although this title is known as one of the most famous left-wing propagandist publications, it serves as a lesson for thos of all political philosophys. The Communist Manifesto should be required reading when studying political science, radicalism and radical political thought.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #539337 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-04-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 108 pages

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Product Not as Described1
This item is described as a "Cloth-Hardcover," but arrived as a regular hardcover. I returned the item to Amazon because it was not as described in the title.

Also....this publisher has very poor print quality.

Good writing, BAD edition!1
Calling this edition the "Collectors Edition" is an egregious misnomer. While the binding is good, that's the only thing positive that can be said about this edition. This "publisher" apparently has no editor and no one who understands a thing about professional typesetting. It looks as if it was typed out in MS Word. Paragraphs are indented a full half inch, AND the paragraphs have entire blank lines between them. The first half of the book uses straight quotes and two hyphens for dashes. The second half of the book switches to curly quotes, but puts spaces around full em dashes. Over and over again the apostrophe of possessives have spaces before the 's' (as in "Marx' s").

I was so disgusted with the poor quality typesetting that I returned it. If you're looking for a nice, high quality hardcover of the Manifesto, go for the Barnes & Noble edition. They at least have professional typesetters.

To the "publishers": I highly recommend you get yourselves a copy of Jan Tschichold's _The Form of the Book_ (you can get it here on Amazon). Please learn how to typeset a book properly before printing any more books.