Halloween 2020

3 Fine New Acquisitions H alloween 2020 Featured Items First Edition Of Ayn Rand’s Anthem , In Rare Original Dust Jacket 1. RAND, Ayn. Anthem. London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney, 1938. Octavo, original mottled red cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $20,000. Click for more info First edition of Ayn Rand’s powerful anti-Collectivist novella, preceding the first American edition by eight years, in rare dust jacket. Highly controversial from its inception, Anthem was published in England in 1938 after it was refused publication in the United States. It would not be published in America until Pamphleteers, Inc. brought it to press in 1946 in pamphlet form. However, even with only the British edition available, readers worldwide came to embrace Rand’s anti-Collectivist themes and her elevation of the word “Ego” above all others. Owner signature. Small numerical notation. Bookseller ticket. Book fine; lightest edge-wear with tiny chip to upper front panel of about-fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy in the exceedingly rare dust jacket. “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.”