First edition, first printing. Signed by Thomas Sowell on a libertarian Laissez Faire Book Club bookplate tipped to the front free endpaper. ix, [1], 214 pp. Bound in publisher's ecru paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth lettered in bronze gilt. Fine, unread, in an unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to front panel and flap fold, else Fine. A challenge to the concept of social justice from the iconic conservative thinker and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Unlike God at the dawn of Creation, we cannot simply say, 'Let there be equality!' or 'Let there be justice!' We must begin with the universe that we were born into and weigh the costs of making any specific change in order to achieve a specific end.".