First printing of Rand's landmark novel, in the first-issue dust jacket
Publisher and Year: Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943
Edition: First edition, first printing, with the requisite "First Edition" statement on the copyright page. First-issue red cloth binding (changed to green in the middle of the print run). In a first-issue dust jacket, priced $3.00 and with a list of Bobbs-Merrill books on the rear panel (changed to a photo of Rand and review blurbs in the second issue). One of 7,500 copies. (Perinn A3a)
Condition and Description: Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt, red top stain, 754 pp. An uncommonly well-preserved example of a book and dust jacket that are notoriously difficult to find in collectible condition, owing to wartime materials especially prone to wear and fading. Tight hinges and binding. Light wear and handling marks to the cloth. Two small and faint stains to the rear board. Fore-edge of the front board and tips bumped. Gilt bright on the front board and slightly dulled on the spine. Top stain mildly faded and with some spotting. Right edge of rear pastedown a little scraped. Clean pages with no prior owner's markings. Dust jacket mildly sunned on the spine (as usual) and with creases, small losses, and short tears to the extremities (discreetly secured on the verso with removable tissue); mild soiling; an ink stain to the lower rear panel; and "DE5" penciled to the top-right corner of the front flap. Preserved in archival mylar and a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?” / “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
Few twentieth-century novels rival The Fountainheadin ideological reach and sustained popularity. Critics have long been divided, yet public enthusiasm has kept the novel continuously in print and propelled it to enduring bestseller status worldwide. With more than ten million copies sold in over thirty languages, Rand’s story of an uncompromising architect has become a lasting touchstone for readers and designers drawn to its celebration of individual creative vision. The novel asserts that individual creative sovereignty outweighs collective demands and provides a moral basis for a free market society, a theme that helped shape modern American libertarianism, codify Rand’s Objectivism, and foster the “starchitect” ethos of architectural modernism.
Inventory ID: 818 - 816 - 796
First printing of Rand's landmark novel, in the first-issue dust jacket
Publisher and Year: Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943
Edition: First edition, first printing, with the requisite "First Edition" statement on the copyright page. First-issue red cloth binding (changed to green in the middle of the print run). In a first-issue dust jacket, priced $3.00 and with a list of Bobbs-Merrill books on the rear panel (changed to a photo of Rand and review blurbs in the second issue). One of 7,500 copies. (Perinn A3a)
Condition and Description: Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt, red top stain, 754 pp. An uncommonly well-preserved example of a book and dust jacket that are notoriously difficult to find in collectible condition, owing to wartime materials especially prone to wear and fading. Tight hinges and binding. Light wear and handling marks to the cloth. Two small and faint stains to the rear board. Fore-edge of the front board and tips bumped. Gilt bright on the front board and slightly dulled on the spine. Top stain mildly faded and with some spotting. Right edge of rear pastedown a little scraped. Clean pages with no prior owner's markings. Dust jacket mildly sunned on the spine (as usual) and with creases, small losses, and short tears to the extremities (discreetly secured on the verso with removable tissue); mild soiling; an ink stain to the lower rear panel; and "DE5" penciled to the top-right corner of the front flap. Preserved in archival mylar and a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?” / “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
Few twentieth-century novels rival The Fountainheadin ideological reach and sustained popularity. Critics have long been divided, yet public enthusiasm has kept the novel continuously in print and propelled it to enduring bestseller status worldwide. With more than ten million copies sold in over thirty languages, Rand’s story of an uncompromising architect has become a lasting touchstone for readers and designers drawn to its celebration of individual creative vision. The novel asserts that individual creative sovereignty outweighs collective demands and provides a moral basis for a free market society, a theme that helped shape modern American libertarianism, codify Rand’s Objectivism, and foster the “starchitect” ethos of architectural modernism.
Inventory ID: 818 - 816 - 796
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