First edition, first issue red cloth, in a partially restored first-issue dust jacket
Publisher and Year: Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943
Edition: First edition, first printing (per the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page), first issue red cloth. All later printings lack the first edition statement. The publisher began producing the first printing in red cloth (first issue) but switched to green cloth (second issue) in the middle of the print run, likely due to wartime material scarcity. In a partially-restored first issue jacket, with a list of Bobbs-Merrill books on the rear panel (changed to a photo of Rand and review blurbs in the second issue), and retaining the price of $3.00 on the front flap. One of 7,500. Bibliographic reference: Perinn A3a.
Condition and Description: Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and front board, dark red top stain, 754 pp. A radiant example of the book, with bright gilt, clean cloth, tight binding, and unmarked pages. A couple of bumps to the edges of the back board. Subtle offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps. The original jacket is partially restored; a triangular area of loss to the front panel has been replaced, with the immediately surrounding area color-corrected for visual consistency, including the bottom half centimeter of the spine. Refer to the final four images for before-and-after views. The rest of the jacket is original, but with several closed tears reversibly secured on the verso, general surface wear, soiling, a one-inch crease just under the U on the front panel, and a blue ink stamp to the upper-right corner of the rear panel. The jacket fits a touch loosely around the boards. An uncommonly sharp copy of the book in the scarce first issue jacket.
“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 Fountainhead in 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: 269 - 030 - 149
First edition, first issue red cloth, in a partially restored first-issue dust jacket
Publisher and Year: Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943
Edition: First edition, first printing (per the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page), first issue red cloth. All later printings lack the first edition statement. The publisher began producing the first printing in red cloth (first issue) but switched to green cloth (second issue) in the middle of the print run, likely due to wartime material scarcity. In a partially-restored first issue jacket, with a list of Bobbs-Merrill books on the rear panel (changed to a photo of Rand and review blurbs in the second issue), and retaining the price of $3.00 on the front flap. One of 7,500. Bibliographic reference: Perinn A3a.
Condition and Description: Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and front board, dark red top stain, 754 pp. A radiant example of the book, with bright gilt, clean cloth, tight binding, and unmarked pages. A couple of bumps to the edges of the back board. Subtle offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps. The original jacket is partially restored; a triangular area of loss to the front panel has been replaced, with the immediately surrounding area color-corrected for visual consistency, including the bottom half centimeter of the spine. Refer to the final four images for before-and-after views. The rest of the jacket is original, but with several closed tears reversibly secured on the verso, general surface wear, soiling, a one-inch crease just under the U on the front panel, and a blue ink stamp to the upper-right corner of the rear panel. The jacket fits a touch loosely around the boards. An uncommonly sharp copy of the book in the scarce first issue jacket.
“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 Fountainhead in 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: 269 - 030 - 149
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