"ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF OUR GENERATION": 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF HAYEK'S THE ROAD TO SERFDOM,ONE OF ONLY 200 COPIES BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO-GILT AND SIGNED BY FRIEDRICH HAYEK

HAYEK, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom. (Chicago): The University of Chicago Press, (1984). Octavo, original brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $9500.

Limited Special 40th Anniversary Signed Edition of Hayek's classic defense of free enterprise, "a major event in the intellectual history of the United States," number 61 of only 200 copies signed by Friedrich Hayek and bound in full morocco-gilt.

"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). Hayek's analysis of the link between planning and totalitarianism and his moral defense of capitalism caused a sensation when it was published. Because of its enduring influence, The Road to Serfdom is considered "a major event in the intellectual history of the United States" (Gottfried, 10). The first edition was published in London in 1944.

Fine condition.