First edition, first printing. 8vo. xxxiv, 401, [1] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (bookplate of Timothy Boyle to front pastedown, minor spotting to edges of text block, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; just a hint of faint creasing to extremities of jacket, else a near fine copy). New York, Columbia University Press, 1993.
Rawls develops a theory of political liberalism that explores the legitimate use of political power in a democracy, and envisions how civic unity might endure despite the diversity of world views that free institutions allow.
