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Ayn Rand's TF Clippings Folder
$2500Attention fans of The Fountainhead and serious collectors alike: for the first time in 26 years, you can bid on and own this original Ayn Rand memorabilia.
Culled from her papers and first auctioned by ARI in 1993, on offer is a clippings folder labeled "Clippings - 'The Fountainhead' (since our return to N.Y. - 1951)" in Ayn Rand's penciled handwriting. Inside are 21 varied newspaper clippings and one piece of publishing ephemera. Many of these clippings contain her writing, such as the date or the name of the newspaper. She combined mentions of both the movie and the book in the same folder.
Notable highlights include TV Guide pages carefully saved and stapled together--with The Fountainhead movie airings highlighted; a humorous bit in an NYT column by David Dempsey about how to calculate the cost of a reprint; and a column called "What London Is Reading," by Wallace Reyburn. Reyburn's analysis of the most in-demand books at London's public libraries includes a highly favorable review of the book he's checked out the most. Spoiler alert: it's The Fountainhead.
Each separate piece has been housed in an archival Mylar L-Sleeve (and backed with acid-free paper where appropriate) for safe storage and handling. Includes a letter of provenance signed by Leonard Peikoff.
Many more photographs of the clippings are available, please contact archives@aynrand.org to request additional photographs.
Payments from successful bidders will be tax-deductible contributions to ARI, to the extent of the excess dollar amount over ARI's good-faith estimate of the item's value. Please note: due to IRS regulations, ARI is not able to accept contributions from donor-advised funds or private foundations to satisfy winning auction bids.
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Ayn Rand's Hazlitt
Live ItemOriginally 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 archives@aynrand.org to request additional photographs or arrange a bidding proxy.
RESERVE PRICE SET AT $8,500
Payments from successful bidders will be tax-deductible contributions to ARI, to the extent of the excess dollar amount over ARI's good-faith estimate of the item's value. Please note: due to IRS regulations, ARI is not able to accept contributions from donor-advised funds or private foundations to satisfy winning auction bids.