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Soviet-era miniature book about Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Title: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels

 

Author: Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich and Magda B. Fábri, ed.

 

Publication: [Budapest]: Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1970.

 

Description: Miniature book about Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Engels' birth. Numerous full-page illustrations (some in color), including portraits of Marx and Engels and images of relevant locations. Includes a speech given by Lenin at the unveiling of a memorial to Marx and Engels on November 7, 1918. Text and captions in Hungarian, German, English, and Russian. Edited by Magda B. Fábri, designed by János Erdélyi, and printed by Zrínyi Nyomda, Budapest, Hungary. Bound in full black paper over boards, stamped with gilt lettering and a red star; in a red pictorial dust jacket depicting a Marx and Engels monument. 1.875 x 1.5 inches; 1 volume (unpaged). Light wear to the covers, faint pencil markings on the endpapers, and a sunned spine and edgewear on the dust jacket. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.

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