[PW] Re: Ayn Rand Books

[Michael Hart]

Sorry, Mr. Hadden, but you did not do even the most preliminary research:

All the early editions of The Fountainhead have RED covers, both binding,
and the dust jacket.

In addition, the artwork for Atlas Shrugged early editions had red, as so
many of the later editions.

I would go go on, but. . . .

As for gold, it has little intrinsic value.

By the way, all the refined gold in worldwide circulation would fit in a
cube that was about 6 stories high.

One gold asteroid would be enough to upset our monetary system.

We're still trading with virtual beads and trinkets.


Thanks!!!

Give the world eBooks in 2006!!!

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg

Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org


On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Hadden, Robert L ERDC-TEC-VA wrote:

> 	Identify any Ayn Rand book? That's easy. They are the ones which are
> cold to hold in your hand; they all have hard edges; the spine doesn't give
> at all, and they all have real gold (24k) leaf, not gilt paint. The corners
> of the book, and all the pages, remain sharp and unbowed before society's
> criticism; and the pages are neither dog-eared nor folded nor double-folded
> (eat your heart out, Nicholson Baker!). The color "Red" in any form, whether
> red rust or in the foxing of pages, avoids these books.
> 	At least, that's my objective opinion. And I give you this objective
> opinion out of my own altruistic desires to respond in public to your
> request, and not from any need to respond to your request as any sort of
> social obligation or professional requirement applied to me by others.
> 	Anyone can forward my remarks, as long as they obey all the copyright
> and property laws and ethics which forbid anyone else to indulge in this
> particular form of sarcasm in emulation of me.
> 	And if you think my sentences in this message are too long, and that
> they run along forever as if found in a Russian novel of interminable length
> but of dense intellectual comprehension, and weird syntax that the sentences
> they all have, then fortunately (in an objective concept of fortune, not in
> the discredited socio-religious concept of an animist projection of "Fortune"
> as a conscious divine being) you aren't familiar with Ms. Rand's writings,
> neither, gospodin!
> 	And BTW, all the Ayn Rand books used to be found in the
> "intellectual's pornography section" of the library, if they haven't been
> replaced by Gary Jennings's newer works. 8-)
>
> Lee
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> Roger Carswell wrote:
>
>> How would one identify a first edition of Ayn Rand's "The
> Fountainhead",
>> published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1943?
>
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