The jacket, now protected by mylar, is badly torn though intact; one library stamp on the front end paper, which also suffers insect damage along the edge. Internally the book is as new. Original title "El Ingenio: Complejo económico social cubano del azúcar." Translated by Cedric Belfrage. Illustrated. From the back cover: I don't remeber reading a Latin American book in which a rigorous Marxixt analitic method, historical exactitude, and passion are so well synthesized...I would not hesitate to predict that El Ingenio (The sugarmill) will be a Cuban classic." Ernesto Che Guevara, in a letter to Manue Moreno Fraginals.