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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980402
Author:James K. Glassman

Has it come to this? In celebration of the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, Verso Press has announced publication - on May Day, naturally - of what it calls an "upscale, Sybarite's edition" of the famous revolutionary tract by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It's cloth-bound, with luxuriously heavy pages, a red ribbon as a bookmark, a cover painting - in socialist-realism style - by the trendy New York artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, and an exhortation on the back: "Workers of the world, unite!" Barnes & Noble, reports Publisher's Weekly, will promote it heavily at the ...

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