Anarchy, State and Utopia
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Nozick on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the former owner, "May 1978 / For Renee / Fondly, Bob Nozick." 367 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in metallic green; brownish red topstain. Near Fine with light mottling to cloth, light foxing to contents, offsetting to endsheets. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with faded spine, light edge wear and modest rubbing to covers. The Booker Prize-winning classic libertarian defense written partly as an oppositional response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Nozick argues for a minimal state, natural individual rights and that the only legitimate state is one that protects these rights against force, fraud, and theft, without infringing on them through activities like taxation for redistribution or moral guidance; signed first editions are exceedingly scarce.
Price: $17,500