Anthem
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1960. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Item #2329888
1960 3rd printing of 1953 Caxton reissue. Boards stained, underlining on a few pages, bottom jacket corner stained, chips from two jacket corners, newspaper clippings taped to front endpapers with name and date in ink (tape has since toned).
105 pp., biographical sketch of author follows text. A man leaves an oppressive society to find himself. "It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the use of the word "I" is punishable by death). Rand, as a teenager living in Soviet Russia, initially conceived Anthem as a play. This is a novel upholding Rand's central principles of her philosophy and of her heroes: reason, values, volition, individualism."
Price: $75.00