8vo. Original gilt-lettered black cloth; dust jacket (light wear to extremities, some faint discoloration to rear panel, small area of ghosting from a former price label on spine). Provenance: gift inscription on front free endpaper; Alberts Bookshop (booksellers' ticket at foot of front pastedown).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Rand’s first major literary success, which was adapted to film in 1949 starring Gary Cooper, and to stage by Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove in 2014.