By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.
Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.An extremely good copy, scarce inscribed and in dust jacket. Some wear to extremities and chipping and toning to spine of price-clipped dust jacket with tape repairs to verso. Evidence of bookseller ticket removal to rear pastedown endpaper.īook fine. First published in September 1944 this copy is sixth impression, published in April 1945, on thin paper to meet wartime standards. Because of its enduring influence, The Road to Serfdom is considered “a major event in the intellectual history of the United States” (Gottfried, 10). Hayek’s analysis of the link between planning and totalitarianism and his moral defense of capitalism caused a sensation when it was published. 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 has written one of the most important books of our generation.
Housed in custom clamshell box.įirst American edition, later impression, of Hayek’s classic defense of free enterprise, “a major event in the intellectual history of the United States,” in extremely scarce original dust jacket, inscribed in the year of publication, “To Mr. Slim octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1945). INSCRIBED BY FRIEDRICH HAYEK: RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE ROAD TO SERFDOM, “ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF OUR GENERATION”
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