NMLP P-039980 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek · George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. (London) · 1944
Census claim confirmed. The London Routledge edition of 10 March 1944 is the true first and precedes the University of Chicago Press edition by roughly six months. Both are collected: the Routledge is the true first edition, and the Chicago printing of September 1944 is the first American edition (and first foreign edition), collected in its own right and distinguished by the added Chamberlain foreword — a text not present in the Routledge first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-039980 for "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039980, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).