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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936. First edition of Rand's debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.

MacMillan, 1936. 1st. near fine. INSCRIBED first edition, published April 1936, stated on copyright page. Inscribed to Rand's friend Rabwin who was the executive assistant to David Selznick on Gone With The Wind. Book near fine. Rabwin's name written on front free end paper and rear pastedown.Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

We carry the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet! Rand's first novel, We the Living Macmillan, New York, 1936. Hardcover. SIGNED/DATED by Rand in a beautiful Facsimile First Edition dust jacket. Astonished by the intellectual trends of America's "Red decade," immigrant Rand set out to uphold the American ideals of individualism and freedom. Rand resolved to expose the "noble ideals" of Communism through the story of three young people whose lives are sacrificed by an all-powerful state. Originally titled "Airtight," We the Living was not a commercial success. Eighteen months after its release, the novel was out of print. Rand's royalties from the first American edition amounted to $100! This volume contains Rand's original UNrevised text. Covers soiled; No writings or markings of any kind, save for previous owner's barely visible embossed name. Encased in a handsome red cloth clamshell box embossed with a red star like the jacket. A handsome addition to any Ayn… Read more

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.

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.

New York, 1936. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MATCHLESS Value! Rand's first novel, one of only 3000 copies, "as near an autobiography as I will ever write" (Rand, 1959). A very good copy with the ORIGINAL, UNrevised text, stripped of Nietzsche's influence. PO's name on front pastedown and toning to back panel. But a highly collectible example of Rand's first novel at the best price on the market. Book #N6232. $1895. We carry the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

WE THE LIVING, Cassell, 1936, first English edition, some light foxing, else a tight vg copy of this, the authors most desirable first novel. 

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. [iv], 570 pp. Original tan cloth with blue lettering. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Spine cloth foxed, edges slightly foxed as well; corners lightly bumped. A very straight, study copy. The author's first book, of which only 3,000 were printed.

MACMILLAN, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST PRINTING FIRST EDITION IN FINE FACSIMILE DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "Setup and printed. Published April, 1936." in custom made tray case..

Kobenhavn: Berlingske Forlag, 1942. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First translation by Else Brudenell-Bruce. First Foreign Language Edition. 455pp. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over marbled paper covered boards; internally clean. Upper joint starting, but not broken through. A very good copy. Perinn, A1c.

First 1941 Edition, Kobenhaven: Berlingske Forlag. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in 3/4 red leather over red star motif paper covered boards. Black leather bands with gilt titles. First printing of the Danish language edition. Book is in very good condition, generally crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. 8vo. 455pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

[No place]: Angelika Films, 1988. First edition thus. Italian film with English subtitles. Originally released in 1942 as two films, "Noi Vivi" and "Addio Kira," directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, and Fosco Giachetti. After their release in Italy during World War II, the films were banned by the Fascist government. Lost and forgotten for decades, they were finally found and restored with Rand's involvement and released for the first time in the U.S. in 1986. This 1988 VHS double-cassette set in its original clamshell case also contains material that tells the story of making the films, their loss, and re-discovery through photographic memorabilia, 6 informational packets, and "Ayn Rand's 'We the Living': New Life in a Restored Film Version" by Michelle Marder Kamhi in "Aristo: The Journal of Esthetics" (whole issue, Vol. 4 No.4, Dec. 1988)--all of which are housed in a pocket inside the case. Glassine envelope holding photos and stapled 8.5 x 11" informational… Read more

New York: The Macmillan Company [1936, Book Date], 1936. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Not A Book/No Jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company [1936, Book Date], 1936. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Rand, Ayn. WE THE LIVING. Custom Clamshell Case Only. New.....

New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally rubbed and toned, a few small chips and closed tears at the back panel. Blue buckram, rubbed at the edges and corners, with black ink panels and gilt lettering. Square, bound with a dark blue top stain and some reading wear, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Rand's debut novel, one that introduced a theme relevant to most of her work: the individual against the collective. "WE THE LIVING is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive and which of them remain as the ultimate winners.

New York: Random House, 1959. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book has prev. owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper, bumping to spine ends, light soiling/shelfwear, dj has price clipped, creasing, chips/tears (mainly on spine ends/flap folds), shelfwear. Author's first novel was originally published in 1936.

RANDOM, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST PRINTING IN DJ . NOT PRICE CLIPPED.

New York: Random House, 1959. First printing thus. First published in 1936 in a very small printing. Author wrote the foreword to this edition and made slight changes to text. Blue boards with gold and black stamping to spiine and front board. Name of former owner in rubber stamp to front end paper. No other markings. There are a few faint black line at edges of same fep. Price intact jacket has minor edgewear but is still bright and clean. In mylar. . First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1959. Stated second printing. Fine blue, full-cloth boards, gilt stamped spine titles and A. R. cover initials on black fields, lt. shelf wear, rub; some spine discoloration. Pages fine. Bind fine; hinges intact. Dj moderate edge wear, rub, some spine sunning; unclipped 4.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Code 1/59 at front flap. The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century. Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel, We the Living, "It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not... The specific events of Kira's life were not mine: her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are." We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman's passionate love, held… Read more

New York: Random House, 1959. 1st Ed thus. hardcover. Very Good-/Good-. 1959 Random House, First Printing, blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket, DJ is faded and rubbed with tears, foxing spots on fore-edge, interior pages are clean, a novel, 433 pages

Of We the Living, Ayn Rand wrote to H L Mencken, "I do not know of a better way to make my entrance into the battle. I believe that man will always be an individualist, whether he knows it or not, and I want to make it my duty to make him know it." First Edition copy of the 60th Anniversary Edition of Rand's first novel, a stunning pre-publication copy with publisher's sheet laid it. Unread and just about in As new condition. Book #C3127. $60. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.