Description
The signed limited edition of The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek, produced for the 40th Anniversary of the original publication.
Octavo, [2], xxiii, [1], 248pp. Publisher’s full brown calf, title in gilt on the spine, decorative raised bands. All edge gilt, silk bookmark sewn in. Silk endpapers. This copy appears unread.
This 40th Anniversary Edition was bound for Laissez Faire Books, Inc. of New York, and limited to 200 copies.
This is number 133 of 200, signed by F.A. Friedrich on the limitation page.
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.
