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March 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand. To commemorate this significant event, one of the earliest mass-market publications to offer Ayn Rand a public forum, Pen Ultimate Rare Books is offering a bibliophile-worthy copy of the original Playboy issue (March, 1964), with its cover touting a pictorial essay, "Girls of Russia and the Iron Curtain Countries." No, Rand was not the centerfold. In this intellectualy electric interview with Alvin Toffler, future author of Future Shock, Rand elucidates her views on everything from meta-ethics to aesthetics, from then-current events to sex and politics. Additionally, this archive includes a copy of "The Lost Parts of the Playboy Interview," written by Don Hauptman, who successfully acquired the original archive of the Ayn Rand interview from Playboy s auction in 2003. Information and illustrations here are nowhere else available. Mr. Hauptman s article details the correspondence between Rand and Playboy, revealing (and… Read More

SIGNED by Ayn Rand, a true rarity: the first revised edition of Anthem, in publisher's rare, ORIGINAL dust jacket, from Rand's British publisher Cassell, the only publisher of the first edition of Anthem. The rarest Rand title to locate signed: Anthem in dust jacket! Cassell, London, 1953. First Printing of "Cassell Cheap Editions" copy of Anthem with an alphabetical list of other titles on back panel of jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. UNMATCHED RARE SIGNED Ayn Rand in revised text the same year she revised it for American publication. Octavo; maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; Spine gilt slightly dulled, else Fine. In a bright dustjacket, absent chips or tears and still bearing the 6/- net price on the front flap. Some rubbing present to the red on the front and spine panels, a touch of dustiness at the edges of the rear panel, with a bit of minute wear at the spine ends; Near Fine. This copy -- the only jacketed copy we've seen in almost 5 decades of… Read More

SIGNED and Inscribed to a most important associate of Ayn Rand, Dr. George Walsh, Professor of Philosophy, who attended all of the sessions of the "epistemology seminars "Rand gave privately in 1970, the year of this inscription. Dr. Walsh would write a lengthy article on Herbert Marcuse for Rand's publication "The Objectivist" shortly after she presented him with this copy. Perhaps Rand's most complex non-fiction title--and most difficult to find inscribed, this book addresses the question of the cognitive efficacy of man's mind. This is the ORIGINAL First Printing monograph publication, published by Rand herself! A true Ayn Rand rarity, presented and inscribed to a most important philosophic/personal associate. Cover bears slight evidence of handling; interior fresh with (presumably) Dr. Walsh's very light pencil marks on a few pages. Book #P1126. $6500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, erotica, history, and science.

"To Linda -- with love and admiration -- Ayn -- November 3, 1942" Incomparably rare Association Copy, early printing of We the Living with original text, presented to a lifelong friend of Ayn Rand, whom Rand had earlier called "the nicest woman I've ever met." Linda Lynneberg is mentioned several times in Ayn Rand's letters to Isabel Paterson and others. Linda is the only one who lasted from We the Living to Atlas and beyond! Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, with red lettering on lightly sunned spine, corners bumped. Publisher's Original pictorial dust jacket: spine panel darkened with large chip to bottom portion, more chips along top edges, several punctures, flap folds with tears, dust soiling. Seventh English edition, published by Cassell, London, 1940, inscribed by Rand on the front flyleaf only four months before the publication of The Fountainhead. 553 pages, 8 1/4" H x 6" W x 1 5/8" D. Unique Rand inscription with incomparable association with the Original (unrevised) text. Book #Pv1326. $6000.… Read More

"as near to an autobiography as I will ever write" (Forward). Random House edition of Rand's first novel, We the Living, which Rand revised to support her mature philosophy two years after the publication of Atlas Shrugged. A tough-find signed in any edition, signed first editions command double this price and higher. Book #Cv2303. $8800. From the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.

SIGNED and Perfect in protective shrink wrap as issued, Copy #208 of 225 copies of the Letters of Ayn Rand rests in a fine custom designed clamshell box with gold foil lettering hand-stamped onto European Iris linen cloth. Accompanying the book is a facsimile letter and addressed envelope of Ayn Rand written to husband Frank O'Connor in 1936 - her first letter of love. Letter in envelope kept in place inside clamshell cover with white satin ribbon as bow. Ayn Rand s surviving letters track the arc of her career from a budding playwright and novelist in the 1930s to an accomplished author of best sellers in the 1940s and 1950s to a philosopher and cultural commentator in the 1960s and 1970s. Collected and organized by editor Michael S. Berliner, the Ayn Rand Institute's first executive director, Rand s letters are consistently full of original observations, reflecting the force of her intellect and personality, as she writes to literary agents, editors, producers, publishers, directors, screenwriters,… Read More

Singular (First and Only) appearance in print in her lifetime, Ayn Rand's first-published non-fiction article, 1944, one year after The Fountainhead, clarifying many ideas essential to the novel's central theme in non-fiction form. The first of its kind!. Shortly after completing TF, Rand contracted with its publisher, Bobbs Merrill, to write a systematic account of the novels ethical/political foundations. Rand s working title was The Moral Basis of Individualism. This abridged version appeared in Reader s Digest, January, 1944, before Rand abandoned the project. 1st Edition, Published as "The Only Path to Tomorrow, Condensed from The Moral Basis of Individualism. Covers show light staining; back cover has a penciled marks. No markings in within text. Magazine is complete with Rand's article, the first appearance in print of then First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's article "American Women in the War, + many articles on WW II ("What it Takes to Bomb Germany," "How to Disarm Germany for Keeps."). Book… Read More

New York, 1936. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MATCHLESS Value! Rand's first novel, one of only 3000 copies, "as near an autobiography as I will ever write" (Rand, 1959). A very good copy with the ORIGINAL, UNrevised text, stripped of Nietzsche's influence. PO's name on front pastedown and toning to back panel. But a highly collectible example of Rand's first novel at the best price on the market. Book #N6232. $1895. We carry the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

"Adults deserve to burn in hell, if such a place existed," for using expressions like "come down to earth.' to their children. Thus spaketh Ayn Rand at the Rutgers Centennial Intercollegiate Conference on 'Ethics in Our Times'on March 18, 1966. Her lecture, "Ethics in Education," which identifies the role of romantic art in education, was NEVER published in any Rand book or periodical. Almost unobtainable in any condition, this is a fine copy of the album and of the jacket, which contains Rand's original signature in red ink on the gold album label. Missing from most Ayn Rand collections. Book #P1402. $2100. We offer the largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

Rare Ayn Rand at unmatched value! All 24 issues of the first 2 years of The Objectivist, 1966-67, in the blue green binder sold by The Objectivist to subscribers. Included is the first appearance in print of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking work on the nature, source and validation of concepts, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 8 issues running from July, 1965 to February, 1967. In addition, 2 Rand Ford Hall Forum lectures, announcements of the Signed Limited Editions of Capitalism and Atlas, and the triumphant move of The Objectivist headquarters to NYC's Empire State Building, "the city of The Fountainhead." Issues range from good to fine condition. Binder is about good minus, but still holding strong. Sequential issues of The Objectivist, particularly those issues containing an entire Ayn Rand book are very uncommon, unheard of at this price. Book #P3307. $225. We offer the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!.

Four first printing copies of early Ayn Rand lectures at the nation's leading universities, before she owned her own imprint (The Objectivist). All in near-fine condition. Book # P5a299. $75. From the largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands on the planet.

INSCRIBED by Ayn Rand: "To Linda - The nicest woman I'e ever met - up to this date - Ayn March 27, 1941" Rare Presentation/Association First Edition copy of Rand's first novel. "Linda" was Aslaug Lynneberg, a Danish-American lifelong friend to Rand, mentioned in letters to Isabel Paterson in the posthumous Letters of Ayn Rand, where a letter from Rand to "Linda" also appears. The book has writing (Printed in Denmark origin) at the bottom of the front flyleaf. The front flap of the jacket is present but separated. A unique Rand inscription on the first foreign language edition of her first book. Once in a lifetime Rand! Book #P5101. $5000. From the world's largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.

Typed Letter Signed, explaining Atlas Shrugged: "This is precisely the manner in which capitalism was defeated by altruism--as I have shown you in ATLAS SHRUGGED. Remember that the morality presented in ATLAS SHRUGGED is new, unprecedented and radically opposed to all the traditional versions of morality. You cannot expect it to be accepted by everyone at once." Typed Letter Signed by Ayn Rand, to a college student, pointing out how her novel, Atlas Shrugged, illustrates the impracticality and immorality of collectivism, explaining that modern philosophy is the cause of the broken spirit of students today, encouraging her to learn to defend the "right ideas" and persuade others in order to build an "intellectual Renaissance," and enclosing a brochure concerning the lectures of objectivist Nathaniel Branden [not present]. 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery, written on separate sheets; horizontal folds. With the original envelope. New York, 28 June 1960. Unparalled Ayn Rand, explaining some of the… Read More

Authorized by Ayn Rand with her participation, complete set of All Tewnty original lectures (40 LP's) of the "Basic Principles of Objectivism" course delivered by Branden from 1958-68. According to one reviewer: "My husband was at the first public lecture in the series.there were so many people attending that they couldn't all fit in the hall rented for the lecture. Ayn Rand took a copy of the first lecture and read it to people who'd been moved to a second room. Then she and Branden switched rooms and did their question and answer sessions with the opposite audience. She had to have been pleased with every word of it since she sat in the audience and applauded each lecture." The topics include Ayn Rand's elaborations on the evidence of the senses, the Law of Identity, rational egoism, and the morality of Atlas Shrugged. All fine, encased in a Fine blue cloth binder. A beautiful set of the first systematic presentation of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. Owing to volume and weight,… Read More

"The most lyrical of any of her work, the most abstract and stylized in its literary method. It has the beauty and cadence of a prose poem" (Branden, 14). Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Matchless Ayn Rand value! "I am. I think. I will." The very scarce true second printing of the First American Hardcover Edition of Anthem, a decade after The Fountainhead, four years before Atlas. Originally published in England in 1938, Anthem "published at last" in America was, according to the publisher's advertising brochure, "too daring for 1937." Some chipping to edges of UNclipped jacket; the book is square, tight, appears unread. Book #C1248. $195. The largest selection of rare, signed, & manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet! All our books and other items are sanitized for your protection before mailing.*****

SIGNED by both editors on bookplate of front flyleaf. Is Ayn Rand, as Susan Brownmiller claims in an essay reprinted here, "a traitor to her own sex"? Or do Rand and her work, as other contributors argue, embody essential feminist characteristics? Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand offers abundant food for thought on these and other gender issues in the body of Rand's work, especially Atlas Shrugged. Both editors have published their own works on Rand. (Gladstein, The Ayn Rand Companion, 1984; Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, 1995). Here's a beautiful copy with a bookplate signed by both editors. No jacket as issued. Book #Pv3314. $52. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

"This novel is a remarkable historical-social-psychological document. Today, its subtitle ought to be: This was America" (From Ayn Rand's Introduction). First printing of the NBI Press edition of Ayn Rand's "favorite novel," the first such printing to include Rand's introduction, which originally appeared in Rand's periodical The Objectivist, October, 1967. This copy of the first printing in book form has some light soiling to covers. No writings or markings of any kind. Book is still tight and appears to be unread. Book #Pv5b104. $85. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

"To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I'." Immortal and unanswerable Ayn Rand. Presented is a very handsome copy of the 29th Printing of The Fountainhead, 1962, so before its 25 Anniversary Edition six years later. Much in common with the original 1943 first issue jacket. The only copy other than Easton press I've ever seen with a ribbon! No writing or markings inside book. Toned line across front/back endpapers. Else a beautiful copy in an especially bright jacket. Book #Pv5a228. $89. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

"The God of the Machine is an invaluable arsenal of intellectual ammunition for any advocate of capitalism," writes Ayn Rand in her Introduction, its first appearance in book form. Rand's review, originally published in her first monthly, The Objectivist Newsletter, October, 1964, is here bound with Paterson's masterpiece for the first time. A fine, seemingly unread copy, with no markings or writings of any kind issued without jacket. Belongs in every library of free enterprise. Book #Pv5b110. $200. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Boldly SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated in 1951 by Ayn Rand! Rare, ORIGINAL (unrevised) text of We The Living! London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1947.PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed and dated on the front blank endleaf by Rand: "To Eugene D. Williams - - with sincere admiration - Ayn Rand July 21, 1951". Bound in the publisher's original blue/gray cloth, head and foot of spine ever so slightly rubbed, inner and outer hinges fine, some light offsetting to front blank otherwise VERY GOOD. The man to whom Rand inscribed this copy "with sincere admiration," Eugene D Williams, was associated with the legal firm Freston and Files, who were the regular studio lawyers for Warner Brothers and who also provided services to Ayn Rand apart from her Warner Brothers business with "The Fountainhead (1949) movie. Rarely does one find an inscription beyond her customary "Cordially." "We the Living," Ayn Rand's first novel, originally published in 1936, is set in Soviet Russia, from which Rand had fled to America… Read More