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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth stamped in turquoise; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light toning to spine and light foxing to cloth, former owner inscription to front free endpaper, pages lightly toned. A rather presentable copy of the author's first book, of which only 3,000 were printed.
Synopsis
We the Living is the first novel published by the American novelist Ayn Rand. It was also Rand's first expression against communism. First published in 1936, it is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia. Ayn Rand observes in the foreword to this book that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Her working title for the novel had been "Airtight. " We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite the support it received from H.L.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140943974
- Title
- We the Living
- Author
- Rand, Ayn
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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