Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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An remarkable inscribed copy of Atlas Shrugged
RAND, AYN
Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, (1957). First edition, first issue, inscribed and signed on the half-title to the guide for her speaking engagement at West Point: "To Lieutenant Colonel Herman V. Frey—my 'commanding officer' on the occasion of the most thrilling engagement of my speaking career—Thank You—Ayn Rand 5/7/74." Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket, top edge blue. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 14.5 cm); [8], 1168, [4] pp. The jacket rubbed at the extremities, several short tears, the cloth slightly stained at the head of the front cover, book a trifle overopened, in all a very decent copy.
The dust jacket is unclipped ($6.95 price) with the expected 10/57 code at the bottom of the front flap and without reviews. The speech referred to in the inscription was an important one for Rand. It was given on March 6, 1974 to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Rand was the first woman to speak at West Point, and her address, (in which she attacked, among other targets, the "Kantian-Hegelian-collectivist establishment that dominates our cultural institutions at present"), is reminiscent of similar pronouncements of the "culture wars" of our present era. It makes for fascinating reading; one wonders how it was received.
Sold for $10,240
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
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RAND, AYN
Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, (1957). First edition, first issue, inscribed and signed on the half-title to the guide for her speaking engagement at West Point: "To Lieutenant Colonel Herman V. Frey—my 'commanding officer' on the occasion of the most thrilling engagement of my speaking career—Thank You—Ayn Rand 5/7/74." Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket, top edge blue. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 14.5 cm); [8], 1168, [4] pp. The jacket rubbed at the extremities, several short tears, the cloth slightly stained at the head of the front cover, book a trifle overopened, in all a very decent copy.
The dust jacket is unclipped ($6.95 price) with the expected 10/57 code at the bottom of the front flap and without reviews. The speech referred to in the inscription was an important one for Rand. It was given on March 6, 1974 to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Rand was the first woman to speak at West Point, and her address, (in which she attacked, among other targets, the "Kantian-Hegelian-collectivist establishment that dominates our cultural institutions at present"), is reminiscent of similar pronouncements of the "culture wars" of our present era. It makes for fascinating reading; one wonders how it was received.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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