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Rand, Ayn
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- The Fountainhead. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1943)
- Paper, Ink
8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 210 x 145 mm). Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Original dust jacket; lightly soiled with minor losses at corners and top of spine panel, rubbing along folds, and usual fading to spine. Unclipped with photograph of Rand and three reviews to rear panel. In a quarter morocco case.
Catalogue Note
a fine first edition of rand's influential novel, the fictional introduction to her individual versus collectivist ideals, with her character Roark overcoming obstacles to demonstrate "man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." An unusually difficult work to find in an acceptable jacket.