1968 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - First Edition Library FEL Facsimile

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The First Edition Library. First Edition FACSIMILE 754 pages, in slipcase measuring 8.75 x 6," 8vo. In very good condition. Feather grey slipcase with minimal small spots of soiling. Dust jacket clean. Red cloth boards with gilt title label on spine and front board. Text-box clean and bright. Please see photos. Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system.Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism and hedonism. First Editions Library (FEL) is a series of exact facsimile replicas of the first editions published by Collectors’ Reprint Inc. Founded in 1968 by Henry Reath, a former president and publisher of Doubleday; his wife, Mary; and Kemp Battle, who also worked at Doubleday, the company prided itself on publishing the best of American literature as it first appeared. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as well as points of issue as the originals. In many cases, the Reaths and Battle waded into debate amongst themselves about which editions were indeed the first. With the mission of duplicating the originals as closely as possible, the publisher hired engravers to reproduce typefaces that are no longer used. They dyed both sides of paper to create a shade of green no longer available for the dust jacket on Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The sewn bindings, stamping and even the original price on the jacket flap of FEL facsimiles are all exact replicas. The heart of the FEL series is literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, including modern classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, and William Faulkner’s Absalom Absalom. However, there are four categories of exception: James Bond series (14 titles), mystery series (13 titles), science fiction series (12 titles), and Published in Paris series (3 titles). In total, FEL produced 112 titles. Sometime in the 1990s, FEL stopped production and sold the rights for 49 of its facsimiles to Easton Press. However, the remaining 63 titles are out-of-print. RAREN1968ABCB - 01/26 - EF5.…