Description
VG First Printing Second Issue in a VG dust jacket. 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 had the spelling errors/ typos corrected.
The book is in VG condition with bright, green boards with a few spots, very strong gilt on the front, and moderately strong gilt on the lightly sunned spine. Also with a few light spots and smudges on lightly toned page blocks, heavy spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, moderate edge wear and rounded and strong, lightly rubbed corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean, supple and slightly toned. The first printing typographical errors as follows: Page 9: The page number “9” looks like an “o;” Page 321 LIne 5: “refrred” instead of “referred;” Page 381 Line 4: ” G.W. , the “G” is shorter than the “W;” Page 480 Line 2: Dominique misspelled “Domininque.”
Very Good dust jacket with mild surface wear, mild toning heavy seam wear, and heavy edge wear with chips and small gaps. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
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.
