Roman Rosdolsky
The Making of Marx's "Capital".
London: Pluto Press, 1977. First edition. Translation by Pete Burgess of "Entstehungsgeschichte des Marxschen Kapitals" (Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1968). 0904383377 xvi/581 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in pale green cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in near fine condition, with foxing to edges of text block and small faint stain at top of front cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright.  Dust jacket, with price of £18.00/$35.00 on front flap, is in fine condition, preserved in mylar cover.
"Rosdolsky's "Making of Marx's 'Capital'" is a major work of interpretation and criticism, written over fifteen years by one of the foremost representatives of the European Marxist tradition. Rosdolsky investigates the relationship between various versions of "Capital" and explains the reasons for Marx's successive reworkings; he provides a textual exegesis of Marx's "Grundrisse," now widely available, and reveals its methodological riches. He presents a critique of later work in the Marxist tradition on the basis of Marx's fundamental distinction between 'capital in general' and 'capital in concrete reality. "The Making of Marx's Capital" was first published in 1968 as "Zur Enstehungsgeschichte des Marx'schen 'Kapital". 'The single best exegesis on Marx's "Capital" that I have ever read ...the tone is firm, completely undogmatic and wonderfully lucid.' Robert Heilbroner, New York Review of Books."