Description
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek, the eighth impression, with the scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, viii, 248pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “Eighth Impression, July 1945” on the copyright page. Clean text block, solid hinges. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.00 on the front flap, stated “8th printing” on the front flap, chipping along edges, dampstain to spine, closed tears, archival tape repairs to verso, a good example.
The Road to Serfdom, first published in London in 1944, is “one of the most important books of our generation” (Hazlitt). Hayek argues that economic planning, or “planning against competition,” eventually leads to dictatorship, a foundational principle in libertarian beliefs. The recipient of this copy, labor journalist and author Benjamin Stolberg, wrote for The New York Times and the New York Herald during his career. Stolberg was an ardent supporter of labor unions but was suspicious of the communist influence upon American labor unions, which he wrote about at length.
