Night of January 16th
New York / Cleveland: World, (1968).
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Hardcover. First edition thus, the first hardcover edition and with a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1936 only in a wrappered acting edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with light soiling and a ½" tear at the bottom of the front spine fold. Inscribed by the author: "To Margaret Steinberg – cordially – Ayn Rand. 11/18/68."
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Ayn Rand
birth name: Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum
born: 2/2/1905
died: 3/6/1982
Biography
Russian-born American writer who, in novels noted for their commercial success, presented her philosophy of objectivism, which held that all real achievement is the product of individual ability and effort, that laissez-faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice. Her reversal of the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic won her a cult of followers. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore