Price crossed out and new price faintly written on spine.īook near-fine, with light wear to bottom edge and spine end. First-issue dust jacket, without "Colonial Edition" on flap. Thus Rand is destined to be one of the most controversial writers-and thinkers-of her time" (ANB). "It is virtually impossible to be objective about objectivism. Through Anthem and her first book, We the Living, Rand started a movement that she would continue to build through The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and which would shape the lives of many of her readers. However, even with only the British edition available, readers worldwide came to embrace Rand's anti-Collectivist themes and her elevation of the word "Ego" above all others. brought it to press in 1946 in pamphlet form. It would not be published in America until Pamphleteers, Inc. Highly controversial from its inception, Anthem was published in England in 1938 after it was refused publication in the United States. It has the beauty and cadence of a prose poem" (Branden, 14). "The most lyrical of any of her work, the most abstract and stylized in its literary method. Octavo, original mottled red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Ayn Rand's powerful anti-Collectivist novella, preceding the first American edition by eight years, in rare original dust jacket. London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cassell, (1938). "THE SACRED WORD: EGO": FIRST EDITION OF AYN RAND'S ANTHEM, IN RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
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