The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000245
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good Plus
- Jacket condition: Good
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
- Place: Indianapolis & New York
- Date published: 1943
Description
Indianapolis & New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1943 Seminal work by famed author Ayn Rand using architectural themes to develop her ideas on the importance of selfishness as a way of life. Precursor to later Libertarian Movements. Binding has black boards in fine condition. Side pages are deckle edged. Pages tight and clean of markings. Detraction is the age yellowing of page edges and end pages. DJ shows edge, fold and spine yellowing plus some edge wear. All pieces intact. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
book club edition : A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the overall quality of the book's materials is lower than the same book as printed by a traditional publishing house.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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