The Road To Serfdom.

HAYEK, Friedrich A.

Item Number: 2156

London: Routledge & Sons, 1944.

First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism published. Octavo, original black cloth. Light wear, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with only light wear to the extremities. Inscribed by the author, “To Mark all best wishes F.A Hayek”. The British edition (which this copy is) was published in March of 1944, preceding its American counterpart which was published later that same year in September. An exceptional copy, rare signed and inscribed. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box.

"Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation. It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning that John Stuart Mill stated in his great essay, ‘On Liberty’" (Hazlitt, 82). [I]n my opinion it is a grand book. . . . Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement" (John Maynard Keynes). The Road To Serfdom placed fourth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by National Review magazine.