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SIGNED and Inscribed to a most important associate of Ayn Rand, Dr. George Walsh, Professor of Philosophy, who attended all of the sessions of the "epistemology seminars "Rand gave privately in 1970, the year of this inscription. Dr. Walsh would write a lengthy article on Herbert Marcuse for Rand's publication "The Objectivist" shortly after she presented him with this copy. Perhaps Rand's most complex non-fiction title--and most difficult to find inscribed, this book addresses the question of the cognitive efficacy of man's mind. This is the ORIGINAL First Printing monograph publication, published by Rand herself! A true Ayn Rand rarity, presented and inscribed to a most important philosophic/personal associate. Cover bears slight evidence of handling; interior fresh with (presumably) Dr. Walsh's very light pencil marks on a few pages. Book #P1126. $7500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, erotica, history, and science.

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 from most collections. Book Fine; slipcase has some darkening, soiling and a few nicks. PO's bookplate on front pastedown, No other writings or markings of any kind present. Book #vP1234. $2500 Many more Rand items, including handwritten manuscript pages from Atlas Shrugged, available. The world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript, and photographed Ayn Rand in private hands! Signed by Author(s).

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 and 3 tiny knicks near the spine. A beautiful copy in highly collectible condition at a matchless price. Book #P1244. $2250. A LIFETIME more Rare, Signed, Manuscript, and Photographed Ayn Rand available. Please inquire.

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 Countries." No, Rand was not the centerfold. In this intellectualy electric interview with Alvin Toffler, future author of Future Shock, Rand elucidates her views on everything from meta-ethics to aesthetics, from then-current events to sex and politics. Additionally, this archive includes a copy of "The Lost Parts of the Playboy Interview," written by Don Hauptman, who successfully acquired the original archive of the Ayn Rand interview from Playboy s auction in 2003. Information and illustrations here are nowhere else available. Mr. Hauptman s article details the correspondence between Rand and Playboy, revealing (and… Read More

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, or markings of any kind. Its price-clipped jacket is dazzlingly bright with only tiny hints of mild abrasions. A beautiful copy. Book #vP1301. $2600. From the world's largest collection of Rare, Signed, and Photographed Ayn Rand in private hands.

SIGNED and Perfect in protective shrink wrap as issued, Copy #208 of 225 copies of the Letters of Ayn Rand rests in a fine custom designed clamshell box with gold foil lettering hand-stamped onto European Iris linen cloth. Accompanying the book is a facsimile letter and addressed envelope of Ayn Rand written to husband Frank O'Connor in 1936 - her first letter of love. Letter in envelope kept in place inside clamshell cover with white satin ribbon as bow. Ayn Rand s surviving letters track the arc of her career from a budding playwright and novelist in the 1930s to an accomplished author of best sellers in the 1940s and 1950s to a philosopher and cultural commentator in the 1960s and 1970s. Collected and organized by editor Michael S. Berliner, the Ayn Rand Institute's first executive director, Rand s letters are consistently full of original observations, reflecting the force of her intellect and personality, as she writes to literary agents, editors, producers, publishers, directors, screenwriters,… Read More

SIGNED by Ayn Rand, a true rarity: the first revised edition of Anthem, in publisher's rare, ORIGINAL dust jacket, from Rand's British publisher Cassell, the only publisher of the first edition of Anthem. The rarest Rand title to locate signed: Anthem in dust jacket! Cassell, London, 1953. First Printing of "Cassell Cheap Editions" copy of Anthem with an alphabetical list of other titles on back panel of jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. UNMATCHED RARE SIGNED Ayn Rand in revised text the same year she revised it for American publication. Octavo; maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; Spine gilt slightly dulled, else Fine. In a bright dustjacket, absent chips or tears and still bearing the 6/- net price on the front flap. Some rubbing present to the red on the front and spine panels, a touch of dustiness at the edges of the rear panel, with a bit of minute wear at the spine ends; Near Fine. This copy -- the only jacketed copy we've seen in almost 5 decades of… Read More

"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.… Read More

"as near to an autobiography as I will ever write" (Forward). Random House edition of Rand's first novel, We the Living, which Rand revised to support her mature philosophy two years after the publication of Atlas Shrugged. A tough-find signed in any edition, signed first editions command double this price and higher. Book #Cv2303. $8800. From the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.

"What is at stake here is the cognitive efficacy of man's mind" (Ayn Rand ITOE Foreword, July, 1966) Rare Ayn Rand at unmatched value! All 24 issues of the first 2 years of The Objectivist, 1966-67, in the blue green binder sold by The Objectivist to subscribers. Included is the first appearance in print of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking work on the nature, source and validation of concepts, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 8 issues running from July, 1966 to February, 1967. In addition, these issues notify subscribers of two Rand Ford Hall Forum lectures, the Signed Limited Editions of Capitalism and Atlas, and the triumphant move of The Objectivist headquarters to NYC's Empire State Building, "the city of The Fountainhead." Issues range from good to fine condition. Binder is about good minus, but still holding strong. Sequential issues of The Objectivist, particularly those issues containing an entire Ayn Rand book are very uncommon, unheard of at this price. Book #Pv3307. $198. We specialize in… Read More

Typed Letter Signed, explaining Atlas Shrugged: "This is precisely the manner in which capitalism was defeated by altruism--as I have shown you in ATLAS SHRUGGED. Remember that the morality presented in ATLAS SHRUGGED is new, unprecedented and radically opposed to all the traditional versions of morality. You cannot expect it to be accepted by everyone at once." Typed Letter Signed by Ayn Rand, to a college student, pointing out how her novel, Atlas Shrugged, illustrates the impracticality and immorality of collectivism, explaining that modern philosophy is the cause of the broken spirit of students today, encouraging her to learn to defend the "right ideas" and persuade others in order to build an "intellectual Renaissance," and enclosing a brochure concerning the lectures of objectivist Nathaniel Branden [not present]. 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery, written on separate sheets; horizontal folds. With the original envelope. New York, 28 June 1960. Unparalled Ayn Rand, explaining some of the… Read More

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" by economist F A Harper. All published bt 1964 and 1976 in very good to fine condition. First appearance in print for some items, all belong in a fine Library of Free Enterprise. Book #Cv2315. $75. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

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 she would sign and send to colleagues, friends, and associates. According to Rand's bibliographer, Vincent Perinn, the number of copies Rand ordered was "fewer than 50, most of which are inscribed for presentation." Rand had revised Anthem in 1946 for American publication, editing for style, rewording some passages, and cutting some excessive language. "No idea or incident was added or omitted; the theme, content and structure are untouched" (From Rand's Foreword). This bespoke copy of Anthem has the same pedigree as the First American Edition, Second Issue, which had a first printing run of 1500 paperwrap… Read More

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.

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 is the only one we've ever seen. Nick Gaetano is a prolific illustrator known for his distinctive art deco style. In addition to his Ayn Rand postage stamp, he has designed for magazines, advertising, book covers, logos, posters, and hooked rugs. Other Ayn Rand related works of Gaetano include covers for Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, We the Living, Philosophy: Who Needs It, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, The New Intellectual, The Early Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, and The Virtue of Selfishness. In 2002, the original art for the Anniversary Editions of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged sold at auction, by QCFA, for $118,000. Measures 12" x 23"… Read More

"To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I'." Immortal and unanswerable Ayn Rand. Presented is a very handsome copy of the 29th Printing of The Fountainhead, 1962, so before its 25 Anniversary Edition six years later. Much in common with the original 1943 first issue jacket. The only copy other than Easton press I've ever seen with a ribbon! No writing or markings inside book. Toned line across front/back endpapers. Else a beautiful copy in an especially bright jacket. Book #Pv5a228. $89. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Four first printing copies of early Ayn Rand lectures at the nation's leading universities, before she owned her own imprint (The Objectivist). All in near-fine condition. Book # P5a299. $75. From the largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands on the planet.

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!

Finest First Edition of Rand's masterpiece, of which she proclaimed with unblinking immodesty: "I know that I am challenging the cultural tradition of two and a half thousand years." Thick 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth with spine label, faint mottling to rear board and top half of front board; first issue dust jacket with 10/57 printed on lower front flap, unclipped. Unrestored and dazzlingly bright jacket with a few soft creases, thin line of toning to top of flaps; small stains to front and rear endpapers. No writing or markings of any kind. Housed in a lovely custom clamshell box. Book #Cv2101n. $5200. We offer the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand including photographs. Do please inquire.

"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, Diana Trilling), Rand's answer addresses principles (recognizing individual rights and the banning of the initiation of force) and its applications (abolishing the draft, repealing antitrust legislation). This issue of McCall's also features an article on Jacqueline Kennedy (before Jackie O) and then-married Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton who insist "We re really just like any other couple." Rare Rand article not reprinted in any of her books. Accompanying this issue of McCall's is the December 1968 issue of Rand's monthly periodical, The Objectivist, in which she explains, with a reference to Atlas Shrugged, why a… Read More