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Ayn Rand. Anthem. Caxton Printers, Caldwell Idaho, 1953.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.S. hardcover edition (see brief publication history below). Near fine green cloth hardcover with black titles in VG- price-clipped dust jacket. DJ has some chipping and creases, but remains bright in a mylar sleeve. Tanning to page edges; but cover and tips are excellent. There is a Queens NY address on FEP, otherwise NO markings on pages. (Incidently, the Jamaica Hills address on 86th Rd. is just blocks away from Donald Trump's childhood home on Midland Parkway near St. Johns University and Captain Tilley Park. There is also a phone number: JA6-6971). Rand wrote this novella while working on The Fountainhead in 1937. Unable to find an American publisher, it was printed in hardcover by Cassell (London) in 1938. A paperbound edition came out in the U.S. in 1946, printed by Pamphleteers Press. The first U.S. trade hardback was published by Caxton Press in 1953. Ships fast with tracking.
Seller: A Book Preserve, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
AYN RAND. ANTHEM. CASSELL & CO, LONDON, 1953.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST REVISED EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE PRESENT, NO JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 6 INCHES WITH 147 PAGES. SOME MINOR WEAR AT TOP OF SPINE WITH A FEW MINOR MARKS TO BOARDS, SMALL FELT TIP PEN LETTERING TO TOP CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER, OCCASIONAL FOXING MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES & FIRST & LAST FEW TEXT PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
RAND, Ayn. Anthem. Cassell, 1953.
Price: US$8800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by Ayn Rand: Anthem in dust jacket! Second Edition, Cassell, London, 1953. First Printing of Revised Anthem, the only copy we've ever seen with its ORIGINAL dust jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. UNMATCHED RARE SIGNED Ayn Rand in the revised, text the same year as its 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 one of its kind we've seen in almost 5 decades of locating rare Rand -- has been inscribed to author, bibliophile and noted science fiction collector Jack Cordes on the front endpaper: "To Jack Cordes - Cordially - Ayn Rand. 12/4/67." Remarkably rare Ayn Rand, not listed in Perinn's thorough bibliography of Ayn Rand! Book #C1222. $8800. We offer the world's largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.