Originally won at an ARI auction in 1987, Ayn Rand's copy of Henry Hazlitt's The Great Idea was donated back to ARI and is now available again for the first time in more than 30 years.

This book contains more than four dozen pages of penciled comments in Ayn Rand's distinctive handwriting. Ayn Rand marginalia books rarely surface, and this one has an impeccable provenance.

Economics fans will be thrilled to see her outraged comments in the section discussing Marx's "unworkable dictum." In other places she blasts Hazlitt's equivocating language or takes umbrage at a depiction of "cupidity."

There is one small "page turning" tear at the middle bottom of pp. 319/320. Both the recto and verso of this leaf are heavily annotated, so it may have been torn by Ayn Rand, working in haste.

The poor condition original dust jacket has been protected with a Brodart cover for safe handling. Housed in a custom blue and white clamshell case that plays off the cover colors.

Many more photographs of the marginalia are available, and if you cannot attend the gala's live auction, proxy bidding is easily arranged. Please contact [email protected] to request additional photographs or arrange a bidding proxy.

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