Anthem
by Rand, Ayn
The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year.Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great “We”-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values-anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
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On May 29, 2012, alecb said
If you had no idea of the past, no freedom, no individuality, no love, It would seem appropriate to start asking questions. In the powerful story of Anthem one character begins to challenge not only his freedom, but his entire existence. I’ve never been so intrigued by a book I now understand the phrase “I couldn’t put the book down” simply from the high doses of suspense and mystery.Anthem is about a street sweeper named Equality 7-2521 analysing his hardships of living in a communist society. In this future setting all individuality has been forgotten, and the period were these beliefs are accepted were completely forgotten. These time are named the unmentionable times (modern day). For example, Equality 7-2521 discovered a light bulb but he gets shunned by the Council because the light bulb represents the unmentionable times. Also Equality 7-2521 falls in love with a young woman named Liberty 5-3000 or “The Golden One” is what he named her. But later in the book the two star-crossed lovers had no choice but to vanish into the forest because love is another aspect of the unmentionable times that has been forsaken by the Council. “We wish to write this name, we wish to speak it, but we dare not speak it above a whisper.” Equality 7-2521 wrote in his journal.One interesting choice of writing that Ayn Rand chose was when people referred to themselves they don’t use “I.” Individuality has been so looked down upon that when people speak their not only speaking for themselves but for all of their brothers as well. Words such as I, or Mine or Me don’t even exist to them.I’m rewarding this book with 4½ stars. It made me realize that if something in your life doesn’t seem justified, then you have the power to stand up and fight it. It’s human nature to question things greater than us and if we are silenced, then we will do anything to claim victory. Anthem portrayed that in such a way that I was sitting on the end of my seat, but in the end; I would sit back and contemplate what I just read for hours.
On Feb 17, 2009, bookfreak3 said
I highly recommend this book to everyone that would like to read about the United States future. Socialism will, sooner or later, take over America's government.
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Anthem
by Rand, Ayn
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- 1995
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Signet, 1995. Good. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. NY: Signet, 1995. 253pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Good with crease in front cover. Heavy pen notations in introduction and light notations throughout rest of book. Previous owner's name signed twice on first page. Contains facsimile of Rand's edits for the first American edition. Item Price
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ANTHEM
by Rand, Ayn
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- 1954
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The CAXTON PRINTERS ID. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 087004124X . First thus American hardcover edition by The Caxton Printers. 1953 on title page with no statement of later printings. Appears to be an Ex-Library copy with the following indications: tape ghosts to edges of green cloth boards and joining endpapers. Looks like… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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"The most lyrical of any of her work, the most abstract and stylized in its literary method. It has the beauty and cadence of a prose poem" (Branden, 14). Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Matchless Ayn Rand value! "I am. I think. I will." The very scarce true second printing of the First American Hardcover Edition of Anthem,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem [First U. K. Cassell & Co. Edition]
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37-38 St., Andrews Hill, London : Cassell and Company, Limited , 1953. Stated at copyright: "First Published 1938; This Edition July 1953". Maroon cloth boards, gilt spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine; no writing. Bind fine; moderate cant. Rare original dust wrapper, moderate shelf wear, rub; unclipped 6/- net, protected in new clear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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Pamphleteers, Inc, 1946. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. 2nd printing. Some sunning along edges. Item Price
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Anthem
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Beverly Hills, California, USA
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Caxton, 1953. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First hardcover edition, inscribed by Rand in 1963. Very good with tanned spine, with a married very good dust jacket. Previously published in pamphlet form, so this is the second edition overall. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Item Price
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Anthem
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Victoria, Texas, USA
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First edition with the words 'First Published 1938' printed on the copyright page. The book is in great shape with one small cut on the spine as shown in photos. More photos available upon request. Item Price
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Anthem: 50th Anniversary Edition
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- 1995
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Staten Island, New York, USA
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New York: Dutton, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 253 pages. The 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by by Leonard Peikoff and an appendix. The latter reproduces the entire original British edition with Ayn Rand's hand-written editorial changes. First… Read more about this item Item Price
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ANTHEM.
by Rand, Ayn.
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- 1946
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Fort Bragg, California, USA
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Los Angeles: The Pamphleteers, 1946. Second issue. Paperback. Covers moderately toned, staple rust stains to covers, else very good. vii, 98 pp., stapled wrappers, 7.75 x 5.25 inches.
"Book store edition" of Vol. III No. I of "The Freeman" , the Los Angeles based libertarian journal. Item Price
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Anthem
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. A first edition of Ayn Rand's dystopian fiction novella,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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- 1989
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA
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New York, N. Y., U. S. A.: New Amer Library, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Good +. Good. No DJ Issued Classic Literature. Has library pocket and no other library markings. 123 pages.
Anthem by Ayn Rand (Signet Paperback, about 1995) Very Good condition, book shows mild wear only.
Ayn Rand's Anthem is a hymn to man's independent spirit… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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- 1946
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Bedford, New York, USA
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$125,000.00
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RAND, Ayn: Anthem SIGNED "Author's Binding" of Anthem, the most elusive Ayn Rand acquisition. ONE OF FEWER THAN 50 COPIES DESIGNED/SIGNED/GIFTED BY AYN RAND AND INTENDED ONLY FOR HER PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. Following the success of her breakthrough novel The Fountainhead and Warner Bros purchase of its movie rights, Rand, now financially successful, ordered a custom red leather binding of Anthem… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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SIGNED by Ayn Rand, a true rarity: the first revised edition of Anthem, in publisher's rare, ORIGINAL dust jacket, from Rand's British publisher Cassell, the only publisher of the first edition of Anthem. The rarest Rand title to locate signed: Anthem in dust jacket! Cassell, London, 1953. First Printing of "Cassell Cheap Editions" copy of Anthem with an alphabetical list… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
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- 1961
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Alliance, Ohio, USA
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NY: Signet Books #D1985. VG+. 1961. 1st Printing. Paperback. Vintage Signet 1st Printing Paperback in VG+ condtion. Covers are clea n, bright. Book has a faint reading crease on the spine seam & minor t anning to the paper. Small, unobtrusive date stamp on the 1st page. No t perfect but a very nice copy of this uncommon paperback book.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition with a New Intro
by Rand, Ayn (Alissa Rosenbaum); into by Leonard Peikoff
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- 1995
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Hamilton, Ontario, CAN
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New York: Signet, 1995. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Glossy pictorial hard cover, (Perma-Bound). 253 pages plus a readers guide at rear of book, Very Good Plus condition with an ink # on top corner of ffep (small but there) & two stamps of previous owners on ffep and rfep & one page has been dog… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Oak Point, Texas, USA
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$175.00
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Caxton, Caldwell, ID, 1954. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Second printing of the American Edition. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 105 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Also has a scribble on the front inner flap, and some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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Very beautiful book.
Thank you for purchasing from Grandma Bonnie's books. She had a huge collection and we are looking to put them into the hands of people who would appreciate them, as she did.
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ANTHEM: Signed Tribute to Ayn Rand Archive
by RAND, Ayn
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Bedford, New York, USA
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SIGNED and dated [4/10/77] by Ayn Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor, on the night of The Ford Hall Forum's tribute to Ayn Rand. "In honoring Ayn Rand, the Ford Hall Forum does honor to itself," opens the invitation to the Forum's "Tribute to Ayn Rand -- Sheraton Boston Hotel -- Boston Mass. -- Sunday, April 10, 1977" In recognition… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
by Rand, Ayn
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1938
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$6,500.00
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London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red marble-affect cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with lean to spine, bookseller rubber stamp to verso of front free endpaper and owner bookplate to following blank, Time Book Club stamp to recto of rear free endpaper and hinge exposed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthem
by RAND, Ayn
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- First
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- 1938
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Bedford, New York, USA
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$3,500.00
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"If you are really wondering about it, Anthem is a poem" (Rand to Rose Wilder Lane, 1946.) First Edition, one of only 3500 copies of Ayn Rand's only "poem." Anthem was submitted to Rand's American publisher, who rejected it on that grounds that she "did not understand socialism." Rand's British publisher earned the distinct honour of publishing the first, unrevised… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00