This typescript is from his personal collection. Mr Hessen had been Ayn Rand's personal assistant and typed seevral pages of the manuscript of Atlas Shrugged. Apart from Rand's Brief Comments, never reprinted elsewhere, This issue contains the last part of Ayn Rand's lecture on the papal encyclical Populorum Progressio, with quotations from The Fountainhead and Atlas a critique of the newly formed National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities and a review of Jacques Barzun's The American University by historian Robert Hessen.

A copy of The Objectivist, where Rand's comments originally appeared, accompanies the Rand Typescript. Ayn Rand's 'brief comments' on Apollo 8's elucidates 'mankind's tragedy: a demonstration of man's epistemological double standard in the fields of science and of the humanities.' The typescript offers a rare glimpse into Ayn Rand's literary and philosophic mind at work, condensing, cutting, adding, recasting her own words to achieve painstaking precision. On Christmas Eve, 1968, in the most highly watched television broadcast of its time, Apollo 8 crewmembers read from the Book of Genesis, King James Version, as they orbited the Moon. Handwritten and typed on verso of The Objectivist letterhead. 11, November, 1968, but published January, 1969. Corrected in Ayn Rand's pen, Rand's ORIGINAL Typescript for her occasional column, 'Brief Comments,' in her magazine The Objectivist, Vol 7, No. SORRY: too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without substantial (at least double) postage increase per USPS. Same Day Shipping on all orders received weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time) weekends & holidays, next business day. Please see our photos they show the Exact set you will receive, never 'stock' images of books we don't actually have on hand! Description & photos property of Gargoyle Books. The box is downgraded to only Good due to heavy rubbing along one edge & bumping/slight tearing of the paper covering at all corners. Flaws: pages are all lightly tanned around edges, but white inside. Former owner's name in pen on first page in 'Capitalism' only NO other writing/underlining/highlighting not ex-lib.

All 4 books are Near Fine & obviously never opened! Complexly clean, bindings straight & tight, no creasing (except for very lightly to spine on 'Capitalism.'). Boxed set from the late 1960s-early 1970s (pre-ISBN) of 4 Rand classics from New American Library/Signet.

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