The Passion of Ayn Rand
by Branden, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/VG-
- ISBN 10
- 0385191715
- ISBN 13
- 9780385191715
- Seller
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. Biography of the renowned author of "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" & founder of Objectivism, written by the wife of the psychology graduate student with whom she had a torrid affair. In 422 pages with Index & 16 pages of black-and-white photos. A FIRST EDTION, First Printing, from 1996, this hardcover has a blue cloth-wrapped spine stamped with silver lettering, with gray paper over boards. Condition is VG+: completely clean inside with q few faint spots to external top page edges. Binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG- (minus), with chipping at both ends of spine & some corners, small circular ring stain/scratch to front cover; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
The Passion of Ayn Rand is a biography of Ayn Rand by writer and lecturer Barbara Branden, a former friend and business associate. Published by Doubleday in 1986, it was the first full-length biography of Rand, and was the basis for the 1999 film of the same name with Helen Mirren playing the part of Rand.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022652
- Title
- The Passion of Ayn Rand
- Author
- Branden, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385191715
- ISBN 13
- 9780385191715
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- OBJECTIVISM WOMEN BIOGRAPHIES WRITERS RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Philosophy/Epistemology/Metaphysics; Writing/Publishing/Journalism/Writers/Words;
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