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We The Living
by RAND, Ayn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Pine Plains, New York, United States
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About This Item
"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. We carry the world's largest of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.
Synopsis
We the Living is the first novel published by the American novelist Ayn Rand. It was also Rand's first expression against communism. First published in 1936, it is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia. Ayn Rand observes in the foreword to this book that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Her working title for the novel had been "Airtight. " We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite the support it received from H.L.
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- Bookseller
- Pen Ultimate Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Pv1326
- Title
- We The Living
- Author
- RAND, Ayn
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- 553
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- AYN RAND;
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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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- Edges
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- Association Copy
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- Cloth
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