Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) The Road to Serfdom, first edition, first printing, George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1944.

Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) The Road to Serfdom, first edition, first printing, some staining to pp.122-123, final f. of index and rear endpapers foxed, front endpapers spotted, original black cloth, gilt, joints starting, rubbed and marked, 8vo, George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1944.

⁂ A scarce copy of this landmark work by the Nobel Prize winning economist. Hayek argues against central economic planning, as it often led to the eventual loss of personal freedom as in National Socialism and socialist states. Accordingly, he argued in favour of private property and market libertarianism.

Provenance: 'Guy Kindersley, S. Pauls Walden, Hitchin, Herts' (ink inscription to front free endpaper). Guy Molesworth Kindersley (1876-1956), Conservative MP for Hitchin, Herts.