The Fountainhead

by RAND, Ayn

$7,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

First printing paperback edition of The Fountainhead. Perinn A.3e. Inscribed by Ayn Rand to her Signet publisher: "To Kurt Enoch - wishing you a great success on your triple volumes, with pleasure at being the first of them - Cordially - Ayn Rand 5/6/1952." An historic inscription by Rand within a month of publication. Book Near Fine with only slight wear at the spine. "I know the nature of this novel. I do not care to become famous for any other" (Ayn Rand, speaking of The Fountainhead shortly after publication with New York Herald Tribune columnist Isabel Paterson, 1943). The Fountainhead, her third novel, became Rand's breakthrough novel and first bestseller, the novel that would indeed make her famous. The Fountainhead chronicles the life of an independent architect of genius, struggling to make a career against a society committed to tradition and mediocrity. It celebrates the glory of personal integrity and defines a new morality of individualism. What she became famous for was Ayn Rand - the Individualist -- Ayn Rand - Liberator of the inviolate, creative, reasoning mind -- Ayn Rand - Champion of stainless personal integrity -- Ayn Rand - Creator of the first unbowed man of unborrowed vision. Originally published in 1943 by Bobbs Merrill, The Fountainhead first became a bestseller in 1945, and it reappeared as a bestseller in 1949, when Warner Bros. released its motion picture The Fountainhead. By 1952, when this Signet Triple Volume paperback edition appeared, The Fou

• Publisher: Signet
• Year: 1952
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: paperback

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