The Road To Serfdom.

HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].

Item Number: 19003

London: Routledge & Sons, 1944.

First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism ever published. Octavo, original black cloth. The British edition (which this example is) was published in March of 1944, preceding its American counterpart, which was published later that same year in September. Light rubbing and small contemporary name to the front free endpaper, an excellent example in the original dust jacket with some expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare in the original dust jacket.

"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 and was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.