We the Living.
“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing": Rare First Edition of Ayn Rand's We the Living; in the rare original dust jacket
We the Living.
RAND, Ayn.
$15,000.00
Item Number: 125765
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936.
First edition of Rand’s debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
We the Living details the heroine’s struggle for individualism under Soviet communism and is the most autobiographical of Rand’s novels, published ten years after she fled the Soviet Union for the United States. When the work was re-issued in 1959, Rand noted in the book’s forward that “for those readers who have expressed a personal curiousity about me, I want to say that We the Living is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write.”
