"AS NEAR TO AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS I WILL EVER WRITE": RAND'S FIRST NOVEL
RAND, Ayn. We the Living. London: Cassell, 1936. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers.
First English edition of Rand’s first novel, one of 3000 copies, handsomely bound.
Rand's first novel details the heroine's struggle for individualism under Soviet communism. First published ten years after she fled the Soviet Union for the United States, it was issued in a very small first edition of 3000 copies in New York in April 1936. In the Foreword to the 1959 revised edition, Rand writes: "For those readers who have expressed a personal curiosity about me, I want to say that We the Living is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write." First published in New York, 1936; as with the American edition, 3000 copies were published in the English edition. Perrin A1b. Owner ink signature on front flyleaf, dated 1938.
A handsomely bound copy in fine condition.