RAND, Ayn.

£45,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Fountainhead. First edition of the author's breakthrough novel. Alongside Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead is one of the foundational fictional texts of Objectivism, Rand's philosophy of uncompromising individualism.Writing in the New York Times, Lorine Pruette praised Rand's novel as "a hymn in praise of the individual... Whether her antithesis between altruism and selfishness is logically correct or not, she has written a powerful indictment". This copy has the first issue red cloth and the first state dust jacket, with no author photo on the rear panel. The Fountainhead was a wartime production: the size is slightly larger than the average novel, it was printed on dense paper, and the jacket was printed in colours that fade easily. Consequently, copies are often found in poor condition.

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