MARX, Karl.

£22,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

El Capital. First complete edition in Spanish of the first volume of Das Kapital; rare in commerce, with no copies recorded at auction by Rare Book Hub or ABPC.An Argentinean physician turned radical, Justo was the founder of the Argentine Socialist Workers Party, and active member of the International. He first translated Das Kapital from the fourth German edition of 1890, the last to be edited by Engels. His translation was preceded in Spanish only by the abridged translation of Pablo Correa y Zafrilla, published in 1886-7 in the newspaper La República, which was taken from Joseph Roy's French translation, published 1872-75. Justo's translation presented the full text of the volume for the first time."The author of perhaps the work's best translation to Spanish to date, Pedro Scaron, has pointed out Justo's pioneering importance, not so much for his style but for his fidelity to the original and 'for the security with which he faced problems in the solution which linguistic knowledge is necessary but not sufficient'" (Braun, p. 572). The second and third volumes of Das Kapital did not appear in Spanish until Manuel Pedroso's translation, published in 1931.

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