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Boldly SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated in 1951 by Ayn Rand! Rare, ORIGINAL (unrevised) text of We The Living! London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1947.PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed and dated on the front blank endleaf by Rand: "To Eugene D. Williams - - with sincere admiration - Ayn Rand July 21, 1951". Bound in the publisher's original blue/gray cloth, head and foot of spine ever so slightly rubbed, inner and outer hinges fine, some light offsetting to front blank otherwise VERY GOOD. The man to whom Rand inscribed this copy "with sincere admiration," Eugene D Williams, was associated with the legal firm Freston and Files, who were the regular studio lawyers for Warner Brothers and who also provided services to Ayn Rand apart from her Warner Brothers business with "The Fountainhead (1949) movie. Rarely does one find an inscription beyond her customary "Cordially." "We the Living," Ayn Rand's first novel, originally published in 1936, is set in Soviet Russia, from which…

We the Living is the first novel published by the American author Ayn Rand. Originally completed in 1930, it was first published in 1936 by Macmillan Publishers. The novel is a depiction of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand’s criticism of the Soviet system. It follows the story of Kira Argounova, a young woman who struggles for her individuality in a collectivized society.