Hayek, Friedrich August von.

The Road to Serfdom

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1944. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Extremities gently rubbed with a few minor knocks, contents lightly foxed, overall a bright copy in the rare original dust jacket, with a few tears, a little loss, and one tape repair to verso. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional pencil annotations to the text. .

A rare survival in the uncommon dust jacket. Hayek's classic polemic against centralisation and collectivism, among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism, was "far and away the most eloquent and straightforward statement of his political and economic outlook that [he] ever achieved" (ODNB). Cody & Ostrem B-6. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. (Item #1889)