Friedrich August von Hayek

First edition, first printings of Law, Legislation, and Liberty, by Friedrich August von Hayek, with two signed volumes.

• Sold as a set of 3 volumes.
• Friedrich August von Hayek (Austrian).
• [Chicago]: The University of Chicago Press, 1973, 1976, 1979.
• Octavos.
• Inscribed on the front free endpaper of volume one: "To David Glasner with best wishes F. A. Hayek June 16, 1975."
• Signed flat by Hayek on the title page of volume two.
• Spines blue with black lettering, each in dust jacket.

Friedrich Hayek was a leading figure in the Austrian school of economics. Law, Legislation and Liberty is widely regarded as the culmination of Hayek's philosophical career; Hayek argues that human reason is structurally incapable of comprehending, let alone deliberately directing, the complex social orders that emerge from centuries of human interaction.

He shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal.

Hayek spent a year in 1968-1969 as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued work on his later book Law, Legislation and Liberty, teaching a graduate seminar by the same name and another on the philosophy of social science.