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Positively New, UNread First Printing of Rubio's Manifesto before he sought the office of President of the United States. What may happen to the value of this book in Library-Quality condition like this? Book #3111. $88. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED and dated [4/10/77] by Ayn Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor, on the night of The Ford Hall Forum's tribute to Ayn Rand. "In honoring Ayn Rand, the Ford Hall Forum does honor to itself," opens the invitation to the Forum's "Tribute to Ayn Rand -- Sheraton Boston Hotel -- Boston Mass. -- Sunday, April 10, 1977" In recognition of Rand's commanding popularity of her annual Ford Hall Forum speeches, "a gathering that has been termed the 'Objectivist Easter'" (The New York Times), the Forum invited Miss Rand and her guests to a luncheon, followed by her lecture, "Global Balkanization." One year later at the Forum, Rand delivered her lecture "Cultural Update," (VERY RARE) which, she admits "should have been delivered last year on the occasion of the beautiful luncheon the Forum gave for me." Included are this lovely SIGNED seventh printing of the First American Hardcover Edition of Anthem, a fine copy in a near-fine jacket with edgewear, SIGNED and dated by Ayn Rand and her husband, Frank… Read More

SIGNED by Einstein, "You really hit the bull's eye with it!" Certificate of Authenticity Included! Completely Handwritten Note Signed with Initials A.E. , to Mrs. Damann, March 31, 1950. In German. 1 p., 8" x 4½ in. Professionally removed from old board and conserved. Complete Translation: "March 31, 50 Dear Mrs. Damann, I have got to write to you again to let you know just how much I am enjoying the kaleidoscope. It always sits on my table and I look into it again and again as I sit and work. You really hit the bull's eye with it! Greetings and best wishes, Yours, / A.E." Einstein sent this letter to Damann in care of Café Old Europe at 2182 Broadway in New York City, an exile café that became an international social center for displaced Austrian and German Jews, offering dining, dancing, and entertainment. Albert Einstein. Here, Einstein's genius infuses his delight. Unique Einstein, very competitively priced for a handwritten note. Book #Pv2251. $7988. *****We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand,… Read More

SIGNED first edition/first printing with the exceedingly scarce complete dust jacket, accompanied by a letter discussing language and deplorable conditions in Baltimore signed and dated by Mencken. "The American of today is much more honestly English, in any sense that Shakespeare would have understood, than the so-called standard English of England." Copy #481 of only 1500 printed copies, this American declaration of linguistic independence OF Mencken s most enduring work --the only signed copy we've ever seen -- marked a crucial new chapter in American prose. The publication of The American Language summoned the emergence of American lexicography as a distinct field. Mencken's work inspired subsequent dictionaries, such as the Dictionary of American English by the American Dialect Society. These dictionaries focused on documenting the unique vocabulary and expressions of uniquely American English, thus cementing The American Language as a pioneering work in the study of American linguistics. Royal… Read More

SIGNED First Edition of Hazlitt's rarest title. Unknown to many and missing from most Hazlitt collections, this 1933 title, out-of-print for many years, was published just before Hazlitt succeeded H L Mencken as editor of The American Mercury, which attracted many conservative contributors. Hazlitt was not yet an Austrian economist or a supporter of Ludwig von Mises, but one can first discern here in Anatomy his earliest inclinations in that direction. As early as 1933, Hazlitt radiated here the kind of intensity that one can imagine changing the course of history. Anatomy is not merely a work critical of literary formalism; it also exposes the hypocrisy and contradictions of Marxist literary criticism, specifically of the notion of "economic privilege" as the basis of literary texts. Thus, Henry Hazlitt the ground-breaking economist was yet unknown but was emerging. Exactly 24 years after Hazlitt's The Anatomy of Criticism was published (and rapidly went out of print), Canadian literary theorist… 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

"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.*****

RAND, Ayn: Anthem SIGNED "Author's Binding" of Anthem, the most elusive Ayn Rand acquisition. ONE OF FEWER THAN 50 COPIES DESIGNED/SIGNED/GIFTED BY AYN RAND AND INTENDED ONLY FOR HER PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. Following the success of her breakthrough novel The Fountainhead and Warner Bros purchase of its movie rights, Rand, now financially successful, ordered a custom red leather binding of Anthem she would sign and send to colleagues, friends, and associates. According to Rand's bibliographer, Vincent Perinn, the number of copies Rand ordered was "fewer than 50, most of which are inscribed for presentation." Rand had revised Anthem in 1946 for American publication, editing for style, rewording some passages, and cutting some excessive language. "No idea or incident was added or omitted; the theme, content and structure are untouched" (From Rand's Foreword). This bespoke copy of Anthem has the same pedigree as the First American Edition, Second Issue, which had a first printing run of 1500 paperwrap… Read More

Unbeatable Price! The authentic ORIGINAL First Edition/First Printing issue of Anthem, published by Cassell of London after its rejection by twelve US publishers. Your chance to read Ayn Rand s original text, which differs from her later, revised editions. Both front and back panels evidence some soiling; spine edges show some fraying. The binding is strong, a bit tender in the middle of the book, but still holding. No writings, bookplates or markings in the text of any kind. Closer to a novelette than a novel, closer to poetry than prose, and written as a diary, Anthem unwraps the hero s struggle to identify this word for which he felt torn. Rand s immortal dystopian novel was published well more than a decade before Orwell s 1984. As relevant today as it was during its publication in America s Red Decade, Anthem is here offered as ORIGINALLY written by Rand at an unmatched price! Discover the differences between Rand's ORIGINAL WRITING and her edited version, published 8 years later, after the… Read More

"If you are really wondering about it, Anthem is a poem" (Rand to Rose Wilder Lane, 1946.) First Edition, one of only 3500 copies of Ayn Rand's only "poem." Anthem was submitted to Rand's American publisher, who rejected it on that grounds that she "did not understand socialism." Rand's British publisher earned the distinct honour of publishing the first, unrevised edition of the poem. A very good, slightly cocked copy, lacking the rare dust jacket, with no writings or markings save for "Printed in England" on the second fly leaf in pencil. Book #P1102. $3500. From the world's largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands. Just ask!

Inscribed to pianist Van Cliburn on Title page. First Edition of the actress' intense personal memoir recounting her dedicated journey from the NY stage to her Oscar-winning performance in Moonstruck and beyond, punctuated with memorable bumps in the road. A beautiful UNread copy in an UNclipped jacket with minor soiling at the top of the front right panel. Book#Pv4318. $125. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Finest First Edition of Rand's masterpiece, of which she proclaimed with unblinking immodesty: "I know that I am challenging the cultural tradition of two and a half thousand years." Thick 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth with spine label, faint mottling to rear board and top half of front board; first issue dust jacket with 10/57 printed on lower front flap, unclipped. Unrestored and dazzlingly bright jacket with a few soft creases, thin line of toning to top of flaps; small stains to front and rear endpapers. No writing or markings of any kind. Housed in a lovely custom clamshell box. Book #Cv2101n. $5200. We offer the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand including photographs. Do please inquire.

.SIGNED Presentation to the only inscriptee whom Rand herself collected and published an entire article about. "Capuletti has the passionate intensity of Spain, the elegance of France, and the joyous, benevolent freedom of America. The first impact of his work…is a sense of enormous clarity. It is as if the air were washed clean and things stood out self-assertively, demanding recognition, in an intensely heightened reality. His work is enormously, overwhelmingly joyous; its irrepressible self-assertiveness has a quality of childlike purity and innocence. The most revealing indication of a painter's sense of life is his way of painting human beings. Capuletti's nudes are so innocent a glorification of the body that they make sensuality spiritual. Such is his view of man" (The Objectivist, December, 1966). Ayn Rand inscribed to several famous people, but wrote an entire article about only 1: Jose Manuel Capuletti. First Edition, First Printing of Rand's Atlas Shrugged in blinding first issue dust… Read More

First Edition/First Printing of Rand's fourth and final novel, which would secure her fame as both novelist and philosopher. "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all" admonishes the novel's moral crusader to a collapsing country. This copy, very near fine, contains no writings, bookplates, or markings of any kind. Its price-clipped jacket is dazzlingly bright with only tiny hints of mild abrasions. A beautiful copy. Book #vP1301. $2600. From the world's largest collection of Rare, Signed, and Photographed Ayn Rand in private hands.

UNMATCHED AYN RAND Collectible! A beautiful First Edition copy of Atlas Shrugged in a dazzling jacket with only minor chipping at edges. Accompanying the book is a Typed Letter Signed by Ayn Rand, (November 23, 1957, the month following publication) to theatrical producer Ralph Roseman, thanking him for his appreciative letter to her about Atlas and for liking it "for the right reasons." In the second paragraph, Rand explains that she enclosed a "circular about a course of lectures by Nathaniel Branden," which she is sending "to all those who have expressed themselves as friends of Atlas Shrugged." A jaw-dropping Ayn Rand acquisition! Book#P1440. $17,500. We carry THE largest selection of rare, signed and manuscript Ayn rand on the planet!

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1963, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). "Man's life is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic--not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement" (Atlas Shrugged). Octavo, original sumptuous blue cloth, original slipcase. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, measuring 6" x 8.75". Fine in the original slipcase, with the original acetate in fine condition. An exceptionally well-preserved example, this is a Bibliophile's Copy in Every Way. Book #vP1221. $4800. (One photo shows the original advertisement for the book in Rand's periodical, The Objectivist. Available separately.) From the world's largest collection of Rare,… Read More

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1920, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which, she once announced with unblinking immodesty, is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). "Man's life is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic--not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement" (Atlas Shrugged). Octavo, original blue cloth, original slipcase. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, measuring 6" x 8.75". Very good copy, hinges a tad tender but holding, in the original slipcase with evidence of wear, toning and handling. Some Rand collectors acquire only her two Signed Limited Editions because of their self-guaranteed authenticity. (Rand's other Signed Limited Edition title is Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal,… Read More

We carry the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands. Unbeatable value! Signed. inscribed, and dated beautiful early printing of Atlas Shrugged. Red cloth gilt in dazzling pictorial price clipped dust jacket.This copy inscribed by the author "To --Cordially--Ayn Rand 6/25/70" on the front flyleaf. Library-Quality copy with very minor jacket edge wear and a closed tear to back panel of dj. Book #P1202. $3950. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Unpublished Manuscript by Alexandre Dumas pere, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, often called the greatest French Romantic novelist.. "He had great gifts of narrative and dialogue, a powerful imagination… [and] a genius for seizing the situations and characters that would best render historical atmosphere. He wrote with unflagging gusto and an instinctive conviction… that 'l'action et l'amour' were the essential things in life, hence in fiction" (Reid, 196). Dumas' reputation as France's premier adventure writer and a forefather of popular fiction is evidenced in this manuscript which makes spectacle of Nero's "taste for debauchery" and briefly recounts the story of Sporus, the teenage boy whom Nero gelded, dressed up as a female, and later married. Fascinating full-page fragment of Dumas' take on the "infamous gossips and adulterers" of Ancient Rome. A few chips and repairs. Book #Cv1111. $4500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very Near Fine First Edition of Axel in a Near-Fine jacket. First Edition in English of Bo Carpelan's tribute to his father's friendship with the great Finnish musician, Jean Sibelius. "When Axel Carpelan died, Sibelius was deeply distraught, writing in his diary to whom should I now write music?" This novel was written in part to address that question. A highly collectible copy of the first English translation in jacket. No markings or writings of any kind. Book #v5a121. $30. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.