El Capital.: Crítica de la economia politica. Traducido de la cuerta edición alemana por Juan B. Justo. Tomo I [all published].

Madrid: F. Cao y D. de Val,, 1898. Of "pioneering importance" 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. Octavo (240 x 156 mm). Contemporary purple half sheep, purple pebble-grain cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, later printed marbled endpapers. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Photographic portrait of Marx following title page. Library stamps of "Legislación Española" to half-title, and of "Instituto de Reformas Sociales" to half-title, title, portrait, and 14 text pages, shelf mark stamps to half-title verso and title, minor ink annotations to pp. 22-3 and 26. Slight loss to spine lettering, light rubbing at extremities, contents toned, lower portion of pp. 11-12 supplied in skilful facsimile, small chip at top fore corner of pp. 91-2, slight paper reinforcement at extremities of last 2 leaves, still a good copy. Not in Rubel. Carlos Rodríguez Braun, "Early Liberal Socialism in Latin America: Juan B. Justo and the Argentine Socialist Party", The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2008.