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  “DEMOCRACY IS ESSENTIALLY A MEANS, A UTILITARIAN DEVICE FOR SAFEGUARDING INTERNAL PEACE AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE ROAD TO SERFDOM; INSCRIBED BY F.A. HAYEK

  HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].

  The Road to Serfdom.

  Chicago: University of Chicago, 1944.

  First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Allan T. Preyer at the Luncheon of the 'Ad ' Club New York April 11, 1945 with cordial regards of F. A. Hayek." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by John Chamberlain. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. First editions are rare, presentation copies exceptionally so.

  Price: $82,000.00     Item Number: 130745

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  exceptionally Rare collection of notes by F.A. Hayek referencing his final thoughts on society.

  HAYEK, F.A. [Friedrich August von].

  F.A. Hayek Collection of 28 Index Cards with Autograph Manuscript Notes on economics and Other Subjects.

  1970s-1980s.

  Rare collection of 28 index cards from the library of F.A. Hayek with autograph manuscript notes and statements on economics, political theory, and other subjects. Many considering how economic structures drive social change and the power of free markets ("..."Men without common purposes and men which [sic] do not even know of each other can collaborate for their mutual benefit only if they freely dispose over distinct resources..."), others addressing philosophical and sociological questions ("...The error of utilitarianism is that it believes that rules of conduct were adopted because of the recognition of their utility while it was not the men who selected them but that those men who practiced them were selected..."), each written in capitals, altogether 31 pages, [1970s-1980s]. "What has led me to my conviction that socialism is not half right but all wrong[?]" These notes seem to be closely related to Hayek's last work of the 1980s, especially The Fatal Conceit. This late work returned to the attack on socialism that had begun with The Road to Serfdom, arguing that there is an intimate connection between the growth of civilisation and private property: "The possibility of investing in other people's labour proved to be the innovation most productive of lives[.]" Several of t...

  Price: $45,000.00     Item Number: 142494

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