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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand (additionally, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: The New American Library, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, "First Printing" stated on copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $6.50 price on front flap. Black boards and green cloth spine with silver lettering. 309 pages. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book is bright and clean, except for sun-toning to the spine, staining from the bookbinder's glue along the green cloth strip on rear board, and one small light-brown stain on the top edge of the text block. Tightly bound and square with no bumping or wear to the edges or corners. Slight creasing in the cloth at the spine ends. Excellent interior with flawless pages. Some browning to endpapers. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is bright and very clean with no sunning. Lightly worn spine ends. Some light surface wear to spine panel with a small hole in front spine fold. Front panel has light creasing at top and bottom edges, light wear along the fore-edge fold, and some light rubbing with one tiny hole. Rear panel has a couple of tiny closed edge tears. Excellent inner flaps. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..
Synopsis
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene.This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition: The Wreckage of the Consensus," which presents the Objectivists views on Vietnam and the draft; and Requiem for Man," an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum.
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- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3944
- Title
- Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- Author
- Ayn Rand (additionally, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- collectible, 1st edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality; Society, Politics, Economics; First Printings;
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