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"To Linda -- with love and admiration -- Ayn -- November 3, 1942" Incomparably rare Association Copy, early printing of We the Living with original text, presented to a lifelong friend of Ayn Rand, whom Rand had earlier called "the nicest woman I've ever met." Linda Lynneberg is mentioned several times in Ayn Rand's letters to Isabel Paterson and others. Linda is the only one who lasted from We the Living to Atlas and beyond! Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, with red lettering on lightly sunned spine, corners bumped. Publisher's Original pictorial dust jacket: spine panel darkened with large chip to bottom portion, more chips along top edges, several punctures, flap folds with tears, dust soiling. Seventh English edition, published by Cassell, London, 1940, inscribed by Rand on the front flyleaf only four months before the publication of The Fountainhead. 553 pages, 8 1/4" H x 6" W x 1 5/8" D. Unique Rand inscription with incomparable association with the Original (unrevised) text. Book #Pv1326. $6000. We carry the world's largest of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand in private hands.

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.