FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL by Ayn Rand (1961, Hardcover, Dust Jacket, 1st/1st)

Description: FOR THE NEW INTELLECTIAL :THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RANDby Ayn Rand New York: Random House, 1961, first edition/first printing stated, 242 pages. Good hardcover in good- dust jacket. Book is bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name stamped on front paste-down, preface, first page of text plus a couple of other pages within text. Six pages with some underlining and one page with a margin note. Few small, faint smudges to back board. Binding is square and sound. Dust jacket shows multiple small spots and light soiling. Some edge wear including small chips at head and tail of spine (please see photos). Not price-clipped with an original price of $3.95 on inner front flap. Now in a protective, archival cover. In answer to the requests for a presentation of Ayn Rand's philosophy in nonfiction form, this book offers the main philosophical passages from her four novels which present the essentials of her system. In the introductory essay, "For the New Intellectual"--a tour de force of psychological-philosophical interpretations--Rand offers an analysis of the development of Western culture, the causes of its progress, its decline, its present crisis, and the road to an intellectual renaissance.

Price: 60 USD

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