God Machine, Signed (8 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Signed by author on half title page.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Wave to text block. Flat-signed by author on half-title page. Rubbing to wrapper, edge and tipwear. ; 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.64 inches; 288 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5 books -- The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle. Keller, Alex. Oxford. 1983. 230p. ex-library hardcover with dust jacket with the usual library stamps/marks/card pocket, text clean/unmarked + Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49. Jim Baggott. Published by Icon Books Ltd, 2015. 576p. Trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + THE GREAT AMERICAN BOMB MACHINE. Roger Rapoport. Dutton 1972. 160p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket lightly bumped/scuffed/chip back dj/price clipped, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib + With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War, Scheer, Robert, Vintage, 1983, 312p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, text clean, solid binding, SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR + America, God and the Bomb: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan, Fred H. Knelman, 0919573762 , New Star Books, 1988, 478p, pb, covers bumped/scuffed, CLEAN text, solid binding --20.00 for all 5. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on title page, water stain at lower corner of entire book. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 308 pages. Book issued in wraps without dust jacket. Book is in FINE condition. Selling quality books for over 35 years. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by Mark Richards on flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paterson, along with Ayn Rand ("The Fountainhead") and Rose Wilder Lane ("The Discovery of Freedom"), is known as one of the three founding mothers of modern American Libertarianism, each for a masterpiece published in 1943. Laid in to this (jacketless) first printing (the "copyright edition") is a five-page typed letter, on stationery of the "Books" section of the New York Herald Tribune, to aviator, author and journalist Wolfgang Langewiesche, signed in pencil by author Paterson. She had sent the aviator a review copy, hoping his practical knowledge of aviation would allow him to comment on her comparison of human liberty and the human use of power in practical matters of aviation; she here responds to his reply. Langewiesche had written "I think that there is still hope for personal liberty in America; whereas you think that there is not." She replies "I am perfectly convinced that there is no hope what ever now of averting an enormous internal convulsion - in two words, civil war - in the near future. . . . Furthermore, the democratic process can do nothing else but produce a tyranny of that type. It always did, does, and will; it must, by physical laws which are unalterable." 292 pp. Reduced from $3,850. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by Isabel Paterson, "at the request of Ayn Rand." First Edition of Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine (New York, Putnam, 1943). A very good Association Copy in original unclipped jacket, likely inscribed pre-publication. 1943--The world is at war, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan occupy much of Europe and Asia, and the tentacles of Roosevelt's New Deal hasten and intensify the trend toward an ever-expanding, powerful centralized government. As Roosevelt had declared, the function of individuals is "to serve that Government, and that fundamentally a great and strong group of central institutions, guided by a small group of able and public spirited citizens, could best direct all Government" (Campaign Address on Progressive Government at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California). Yet in that same year, the appearance of three books by three women, "Freedom's Furies," dared to defy the authoritarian tide and forever changed the course of American political thought. Only one was a novel, "a hymn to individualism" and became a blockbuster: Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The other two eventually went out of print but were reissued by different publishers decades later: Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom and Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine. "The God of the Machine is the greatest book written in the last three hundred years. It is the first complete statement of the philosophy of individualism as a political and economic system. It is the basic document of capitalism" (Ayn Rand, letter to Paterson's publisher, 1943). Before Paterson authored her magnum opus, she had been the literary critic for the New York Herald Tribune, (her satire so biting, she struck fear in many authors, including John O'Hara), secretary to Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, a pioneer aviator, and a novelist. (After she retired, doggedly independent Paterson notoriously did not claim any social security and, purportedly, kept her social security card in its original, unopened envelope, marked "Social Security Swindle." Love to get my hands on that!) But it was in The God of the Machine, "an invaluable arsenal of intellectual ammunition for any advocate of capitalism" (Rand, Introduction to The God of the Machine, 1983), that Paterson concludes with these highly celebrated words, never forgotten: "Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last." A monumental copy, linking two of the leading thinkers of the Twentieth Century, and a practical exponent of both of them. First edition, review copy, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "To DeWitt M. Emery at the request of Ayn Rand with pleasure Isabel Paterson." The recipient, DeWitt Emery, was founder of the National Small Business Men's Association, and a friend/correspondent of both Rand and Paterson. Ex-libris of DeWitt M. Emery to front pastedown. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered on a pale blue ground. With original, unclipped dust jacket. Printed Review copy slip loosely inserted. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. Dust jacket chipped along folds, with some tape repairs to verso, ring mark from a glass or bottle to front panel, short tear to front panel with tape repair to verso; a very good copy. Accompanying the book is the 1983 reissue of The God of the Machine, with Ayn Rand's 1964 review as the Introduction. Book #Bv2403. $7500. First edition copies of all three 1943 books by "Freedom's Furies" available. Signed by Author(s).