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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper, "To Helen Astor - with profound gratitude for her patience and fair judgement - March 31, 1936." 570pp. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth stamped in turquoise; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, spine slightly mottled, and light soiling to cloth; spine darkened. Top edge of rear board gnawed. Blue lettering quite crisp. Contents slightly musty and lightly foxes. A rather presentable copy of the author's first book, of which only 3,000 were printed.

Signed "Ayn" only, from Ayn Rand's library, and inscribed by Rand to her actor-husband Frank O'Connor on August 6, 1934, a First Edition Presentation Copy of Noel Coward's Play Parade, which includes seven of Coward's plays; O'Connor had roles in a few. Rand's charming, affectionate inscription reads in full: "To my little Cubby -- one of his future parts --but not the only one! Ayn 8-6-34." ("Cubby" was Ayn's nickname for husband Frank.) Book has handwritten notes by O'Connor on front flyleaf and highlighting of the characters' names in 2 plays. Original publisher's cloth binding. Soiling and edgewear to spine and boards. Hinges cracked but holding. Very rare book inscribed by Rand to her husband, two years before she published We the Living. Book #v1151. $9800. *****We carry the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands! *****All our books are sanitized for your protection before mailing.

Signed First Revised Edition of Ayn Rand's first novel, We the Living (New York: Random House, 1959). A fine copy in a very bright jacket.
We the Living follows young Kira Argounova, as close to an autobiographical character as Ayn Rand ever created, from her arrival in St. Petersburg, excited about the "streets of a big city where so much is possible," to her death near the Latvian border, where she smiles "her last smile, to so much that had been possible." Her journey in between contrasts Kira's determined passion for living her life with the living death of the brutally collectivist state which impedes her escape.
Originally published by Macmillan in 1936 (after twelve publishers rejected it), We the Living was Rand's fulfillment of a promise to a guest at her farewell party just before she left the Soviet Union. "One of the guests, a man whom Ayn knew only slightly, said to her, with the sudden, tense earnestness of desperation: "If they ask you in America—tell them that Russia is a huge… Read More

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.