RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: Random House, 1961.

8vo. Original black cloth, top edge stained yellow; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some very slight chipping, spine slightly soiled).

FIRST EDITION of Rand’s first non-fiction work. SIGNED BY RAND on half-title. Rand viewed the work as a “cultural commercial” for her novels which helped increase sales of then-recently-published paperback editions of Atlas Shrugged and We Are the Living.