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Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: the boards are shelf rubbed and worn, and the spine has been neatly repaired the top of the spine is frayed.the spine is faded almost totally. the book has no inscriptions and the binding is square and tight. some darkening and age related marks. fair to good first UK edition. (R*30.5.21). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Rand, Ayn. Fountainhead. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are a bit rubbed and edgeworn. There is some tanning and light foxing. The ffep is a bit scarred. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cl., edges sl. rubbed, dent to back cover. Backstr. black with black lettering, design, sl. faded, corners sl. rubbed. Gift inscription ffep. 644pp. STATED SECOND EDITION.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
RAND, Ayn.. The Fountainhead.. Cassell and Company Limited London, 1947.
Price: US$153.84 + shipping
Description: Cassell and Company Limited, London. 1947. First edition in the UK. Hardback NO DW. Black cloth gilt. Marked, faded and rubbed along edges. Type on spine also faded. End papers browned with house library stamp to front. Pages edges soiled but contents clean.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1947.
Price: US$512.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 644. Original black cloth lettered & decorated gilt to spine. Light rubbing to spine edges but a very decent copy. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
RAND Ayn. THE FOUNTAINHEAD. Cassell, 1947, 1947.
Price: US$512.79 + shipping
Description: 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (casing with slight lean; small nick at head of spine and spotting on top and fore-edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (covers partly spotted with tears and creases at edges and partial loss at top corner of upper cover - in protective wrapper). Pp. 643 (endpapers partly tanned and some spotting on front and rear prelims; previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell, London, 1947.
Price: US$512.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover without jacket; first British printing (Cassell, 1947). 643pp; gilt titles and laurel wreath design on spine. Spine ends are lightly bumped; one or two faint imperfections on exterior; endpapers tanned. Pages are clean and sound throughout; a very good copy. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Rand, Ayn. The fountainhead / by Ayn Rand. London : Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$574.55 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 643 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Ayn Rand. 20th-century literature. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Rand, Ayn. The fountainhead / by Ayn Rand. London : Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 643 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Ayn Rand. 20th-century literature. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell & Company Limited 1947, London, 1947.
Price: US$769.19 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 644 pp. Recently bound in dark blue full morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. New marbled endpapers. early ink owner's inscription to title-page. Internally clean. A handsome copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand (1st UK edition). Cassell and Company Ltd., 1947.
Price: US$865.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket has edge and surface wear, 1.5" tear top edge rear, wear head of spine and on edges, no price to clip. Grey cloth boards are rubbed at the corners and lightly worn, rubbed head/tail of spine. Gift pen inscription front endpaper. First UK edition 1947. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man" (Rand, 1963). The Fountainhead, First UK edition in jacket of Ayn Rand's "confirmation of the spirit of youth, proclaiming man's glory, showing how much is possible." A Very Good copy with no markings or writings of any kind. Toning to front and rear endpapers. The jacket has a small chip on the front panel and minor edgewear. One of an estimated 5,250 copies. Perinn A3d. Book #v5a251n. $895. We offer the world's largest collection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands. Do please inquire.
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.
Rand (Ayn). The Fountainhead. Cassell, London, 1947.
Price: US$961.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 15/- and with the 'Voice of Britain' to rear inside flap. Small split to gutter at title, but overall very good, in VG jacket. Ayn Rand's classic story of money, power and a man's struggle to succeed on his own terms, a paean to individualism and humanity's creative potential.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
RAND AYN. The Fountainhead. Cassell, London, 1947.
Price: US$980.72 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. The objectivist philosopher/novelists classic American statement of individualism. A neat name and contemporary date on the front free end-paper. The boards are marked in places and the gilt lettering is rather rubbed and faded. Overall a near VG copy. The D/W is priced 15/- net to the spine (as called for). It appears to have been kept separately from the book as there is a vertical crease to the spine. The fragile D/W is rubbed to the spine edges and is a little creased at the head and tail of the spine. All-in-all a very good D/W, which is seldom seen in better condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Cassell, London. 1947 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition. Light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few small nicks and tears with light creasing to head and foot, extremities a little rubbed. Overall, a very good and better than usual copy of the first UK edition of Rand's seminal novel.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
RAND, Ayn. We the Living. Cassell, 1947.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boldly SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated in 1951 by Ayn Rand! Rare, ORIGINAL (unrevised) text of We The Living! London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1947.PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed and dated on the front blank endleaf by Rand: "To Eugene D. Williams - - with sincere admiration - Ayn Rand July 21, 1951". Bound in the publisher's original blue/gray cloth, head and foot of spine ever so slightly rubbed, inner and outer hinges fine, some light offsetting to front blank otherwise VERY GOOD. The man to whom Rand inscribed this copy "with sincere admiration," Eugene D Williams, was associated with the legal firm Freston and Files, who were the regular studio lawyers for Warner Brothers and who also provided services to Ayn Rand apart from her Warner Brothers business with "The Fountainhead (1949) movie. Rarely does one find an inscription beyond her customary "Cordially." "We the Living," Ayn Rand's first novel, originally published in 1936, is set in Soviet Russia, from which Rand had fled to America ten years earlier. Astonished by the intellectual trends of America's "Red decade," the immigrant Rand set out to uphold and defend the American ideals of individualism and freedom. Rand resolved to expose the "noble ideal" of collectivism through the story of three young people whose lives are sacrificed by an all-powerful state. Originally titled "Airtight," this unvarnished account of communism details the methods by which the spirits of its best citizens are suffocated by the collectivist state. The initial American publication of "We the Living" was not a commercial success. Macmillan did not expect the novel to sell and did little marketing. Initial sales were slow and although they picked up later, Macmillan destroyed the plates before the first printing of 3000 copies had sold out. Eighteen months after its release, the novel was out of print. Rand's royalties from the first American edition amounted to $100. An edition revised by Rand was published in 1959, following the success of Atlas Shrugged (1957). This volume contains Rand's original, unrevised text. Lacks the scarce dust jacket. The best inscribed Rand value on the market! Book #Pv5b155. $4500. We specialize in Rare, Signed, and Manuscript Ayn Rand.
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.