Description: The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, 1943, Bobbs-Merrill. 1st ed. / early printing - 5.75 x 8.15 inches approx., 754 pages; hdbk. - 1st edition / early printing: Book has all 6 first edition errors:•Page 9: The number 9 looks like an "o"•Page 236: Last paragraph line 1: the word "went" instead of "sent"•Page 321: Line 5: the word “refrred" instead of “referred”•Page 381: Line 4 G.W. The letter "G" is shorter than "W"•Page 480: Line 2 The name “Dominique” is misspelled "Domininque"•Page 651: Paragraph 2 next to last line The word "weight" instead of "weigh" from Wikipedia:The Fountainhead is Ayn Rand's first commercially successful novel and is centered on her philosophy of Objectivism, which maintains that individualism exists outside of consciousness and that the each person's moral life purpose should be one's own personal happiness. She continued to develop this philosophy in later novels, including Atlas Shrugged. The Fountainhead tells of protagonist Howard Roark, an architect determined to stay true to his personal ideas and ideals, even if it means rejection by mainstream society. As the dust jacket explains, "This book is based on a challenging belief in the importance of selfishness, on the provocative idea that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." Appropriately, this novel about individual struggle in the face of conformity had its own struggle to be published; The Fountainhead was rejected by thirteen publishers before being published by Bobbs-Merrill. The novel received a lack of critical success, but managed to become a popular best-seller, largely due to its fans' word of mouth. Condition:Very Good Condition for this vintage 1st edition. Cover shows only minor wear....mainly a coffee ring on front, rubbing to corners, and some fading of spine lettering. Binding/hinges are tight/strong. Very slight or no age-tanning to paper except right inside cover boards. Inside all clean...no tears, folds, marks, stains.
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