Description
Good First Edition, Second Issue of the First Printing. First Edition unstated, 1943 Bobbs-Merrill. First Printing unstated with green boards and all four spelling errors. The first print, first issue has red covers with the same errors. A third issue of the first printing has one error corrected. Subsequent early printings have the spelling errors/ typos corrected.
The book is in Good condition with unevenly faded, green boards with a moderately strong gilt on the front. Heavy spotting partially obscures the author’s name,but the front title is clearly legible. The spine is sun-faded with no gilt present, and both author and title only visible up close as an imprint in the cloth. Also with spots and marks on lightly toned page blocks, moderate to heavy spine tilt, rolled and rubbed spine ends, moderate to heavy edge wear and rounded and rubbed corners. Previous owner’s bookplate on the front paste down with a price or other name cut off with a 2″ diagonal cut on the ffep. No other marks or inscriptions inside, but both end papers have some spots and binding stains. Several pages have creases from straightened corners and a few small tears. Pages otherwise are clean and slightly toned.
No dust jacket.
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite…of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy…and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
