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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Orange Park, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Later printing of the first edition, with 1943 copyright date but with no printing statement on the copyright page. Original-issue dust jacket with three review blurbs under photo of author on the rear panel and publisher's $3.00 price at the bottom of the front flap and publisher's yellow sticker advertisement for the 1949 movie The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey on the front panel. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. 754 pages. Text includes all the typographical errors found in the first printing. NEAR FINE book in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Book has a lightly bumped top spine end and top corner tips and is otherwise Fine. Very bright, very clean and unworn with no sunning. Tightly bound and square, with strong, sound hinges. No previous owner markings, no browning to the endpapers and flawless pages. Dust jacket is very bright and very clean with just a slight touch of sun-fading to the spine. Jacket is laminated so there is virtually no surface wear and only slight touches of wear to the spine ends and corner tips. No stains, tears or significant creases. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..
Synopsis
When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand 's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand's own notes on the making of The Fountainhead . As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero—and about those who try to destroy him.
Reviews
On Jun 14 2022, a reader said:
One of the most influential books I have ever read yeah she can talk a yes I just need to listen
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Details
- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3963
- Title
- The Fountainhead
- Author
- Ayn Rand
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis / New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Music, Film, and Fine Arts;
Terms of Sale
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