We the Living.
RAND, Ayn.
We the Living.
“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing": Rare First Edition of Ayn Rand's We the Living; Signed by Her
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936.
$9,800.00
In Stock
Item Number: 151216
First edition of Rand’s debut novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
We the Living details the heroine’s struggle for individualism under Soviet communism and is the most autobiographical of Rand’s novels, published ten years after she fled the Soviet Union for the United States. When the work was re-issued in 1959, Rand noted in the book’s forward that “for those readers who have expressed a personal curiousity about me, I want to say that We the Living is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write.”
