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March 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand. To commemorate this significant event, one of the earliest mass-market publications to offer Ayn Rand a public forum, Pen Ultimate Rare Books is offering a bibliophile-worthy copy of the original Playboy issue (March, 1964), with its cover touting a pictorial essay, "Girls of Russia and the Iron Curtain… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Ayn Rand. Missing from most Rand collections, one of only 300 copies! New American Library, New York, 1966. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Rare and Fine copy of the UNnumbered Limited Edition of Capitalism, issued immediately after (November, 1966) the original Signed, Numbered 700 copies sold. Erratum slip which itself contains an error! Most unusual Rand, missing… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Ayn Rand. A bibliophile's copy in every way! The largest selection of rare, signed and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet! UNMATCHED, UNREAD copy of Rand's Limited Edition of Capitalism, issued simultaneously with the first printing, in a limited run of 700 copies signed and numbered by Rand. Book is STUNNING. In original publisher's slipcase with light toning… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1920, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which, she once announced with unblinking immodesty, is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1963, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). "Man's life is not… Read more about this item

UNMATCHED AYN RAND VALUE! Beautiful FIRST PRINTING, what Rand called the "definitive edition" of her courtroom drama, Night of January 16. SIGNED and dated by Rand on the half-title. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Library-quality at an unbeatable price. Book #P1451. $1950. The largest selection of rare, signed and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

First Edition/First Printing of Reisman's long out-of-print first book, sections of which would first appear in Ayn Rand's periodical The Objectivist (1966-71) and later in Reisman's 1996 masterpiece, Capitalism. Reisman here demonstrates the workings of the free market, "a truly awe-inspiring complex of relationships in which the rational self-interest of individuals unites all industries, all markets, all occupations, all production,… Read more about this item

Singular (First and Only) appearance in print in her lifetime, Ayn Rand's first-published non-fiction article, 1944, one year after The Fountainhead, clarifying many ideas essential to the novel's central theme in non-fiction form. The first of its kind!. Shortly after completing TF, Rand contracted with its publisher, Bobbs Merrill, to write a systematic account of the novels ethical/political foundations. Rand… Read more about this item

Unbeatable Price! The authentic ORIGINAL First Edition/First Printing issue of Anthem, published by Cassell of London after its rejection by twelve US publishers. Your chance to read Ayn Rand s original text, which differs from her later, revised editions. Both front and back panels evidence some soiling; spine edges show some fraying. The binding is strong, a bit tender in… Read more about this item

"A woman cannot reasonably want to be a commander-in-chief." Rare Ayn Rand article in January, 1968, issue of McCall's Magazine, featuring an article by Ayn Rand (and 15 other then-prominent woman), who'd been asked: What would I do if I were President of the United States? Unlike other contributors (including Betty Friedan, Lauren Bacall, Leontyne Price, Joan Baez, Margaret Truman,… Read more about this item

RAND, Ayn: Anthem SIGNED "Author's Binding" of Anthem, the most elusive Ayn Rand acquisition. ONE OF FEWER THAN 50 COPIES DESIGNED/SIGNED/GIFTED BY AYN RAND AND INTENDED ONLY FOR HER PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. Following the success of her breakthrough novel The Fountainhead and Warner Bros purchase of its movie rights, Rand, now financially successful, ordered a custom red leather binding of Anthem… Read more about this item

First Edition/First Printing of Rand's fourth and final novel, which would secure her fame as both novelist and philosopher. "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all" admonishes the novel's moral crusader to a collapsing country. This copy, very near fine, contains no writings, bookplates,… Read more about this item

"I write a weekly column for the Los Angeles Sunday Times and I love being a girl-reporter." Autograph manuscript signed for Los Angeles Times. New York: June 26, 1962. Ten pages of white 8 12 x 10-inch paper, written on rectos only, showing Rand's word count; housed in a custom clamshell box. Accompanied by a typed version of the article… Read more about this item

SIGNED by author Peikoff and introduced by Ayn Rand, a fine, highly collectible copy of "the first book by an Objectivist philosopher other than myself" (Rand, Intro). Peikoff's thesis demonstrates that philosophy is the motor of history, the fundamental cause of history's major trends, and the power that "determines the destiny of nations." The Ominous Parallels illuminates in detail the… Read more about this item

SIGNED First Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by RAND: "To William W. Stanhope - - Cordially - Ayn Rand 12/20/74." ." In this series of essays, Ayn Rand demonstrates that art is not a luxury but a critical need for human beings, not a material need, but a need of man's rational mind, on which his material survival depends. With brilliant… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Presented by Ayn Rand, "Christmas, 1945" a second edition of The Fountainhead. A very good copy with some edgewear and faint staining to the front pastedown in a very near fine jacket. Christmas Presentation copies by Rand provide distinguished provenance only two years after the novel's original publication. Book #vP1424. $6900. From the world's largest selection of rare,… Read more about this item

Five out-of-print pamphlets by some of the most highly lauded theorists of free enterprise. Included are "The Moral Factor" by Ayn Rand, "The Minimum Wage: Who Pays?" by Milton Friedman and Yale Brozen, "Freedom of Choice and the Antislavery Amendment" by Constitutional lawyer Alfred Alvins, "History and Ideology" by economic historian R M Harmell, and "An Introduction to Value Theory"… Read more about this item

Preceding the first edition, Reisman Capitalism, his definitive argument for laissez-faire, punctuated with arguments he learned from Ayn Rand, dedicated to his teacher, Ludwig von Mises. 2 volumes, very nearly fine. Book #Cv2313. $100. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Ayn Rand's last public lecture, "The Age of Mediocrity," makes its first appearance in print in the pages of The Objectivist Forum, a bi-monthly publication for which she served as philosophical consultant. Five issues from 1980-84 offer articles by Rand and her associates Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, and more. All in very good to fine condition. Very uncommon. Book#Cv2312. $85.… Read more about this item

The United States Postal Service honored Ayn Rand on a 33¢ stamp issued April 22, 1999, the 16th stamp in the Literary Art series. Ayn Rand's recognition as a literary giant and the artistry of Nick Gaetano unite here in this unique work with 4 Original "First Day of Issue" envelopes signed by Gaetano. Not a Limited Edition release. This… Read more about this item