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RAND, Ayn.
We the Living.
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1936
Stock code: 36767
Price: £16,500 Currency Conversion
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's fine presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Katharine Hepburn of whom I always think as my "Kira" - with great admiration Ayn Rand August 4, 1936". Inscribed in the year of publication, Ayn Rand presented this book to Katharine Hepburn on a studio set in 1936. June Roberts, a Hollywood hairdresser who worked with Hepburn on a number of movies, was with her at the time Rand presented the book and Hepburn gave it to Roberts. Rand's inscription refers to the main character in We the Living, Kira Argounova, the young daughter of a bourgeois capitalist whose independent spirit reacts against her background. Rand later contended that Hepburn was the ideal actress to portray Dagny Taggart, the heroine in Atlas Shrugged.
Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to upper board and spine in blue. Housed in a crimson quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Endleaves lightly browned, edges of boards darkened, spine tanned and with a small puncture at the top. Very good.
