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RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). We the Living. New York: Macmillan, 1936.
8o. Original cloth (soiled, spine with small hole). Provenance: KATHARINE HEPBURN (1907-2003), American actress (presentation inscription, given to:) June Roberts; by descent to the present owner.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY AYN RAND TO KATHARINE HEPBURN on the front free endpaper: "To Katherine Hepburn-- of whom I always think as my 'Kira'-- with great admiration Ayn Rand August 4, 1936." Inscribed in the year of publication, Ayn Rand presented this book to Katharine Hepburn on a studio set in 1936. June Roberts, a Hollywood hairdresser who worked with Hepburn on a number of movies, was with her at the time Rand presented the book and Hepburn gave it to Roberts. Rand's inscription refers to the main character in We the Living, Kira Argounova, the young daughter of a bourgeois capitalist whose independent spirit reacts against her background. Rand later contended that Hepburn was the ideal actress to portray Dagny Taggart, the heroine in Atlas Shrugged. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
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FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY AYN RAND TO KATHARINE HEPBURN on the front free endpaper: "To Katherine Hepburn-- of whom I always think as my 'Kira'-- with great admiration Ayn Rand August 4, 1936." Inscribed in the year of publication, Ayn Rand presented this book to Katharine Hepburn on a studio set in 1936. June Roberts, a Hollywood hairdresser who worked with Hepburn on a number of movies, was with her at the time Rand presented the book and Hepburn gave it to Roberts. Rand's inscription refers to the main character in We the Living, Kira Argounova, the young daughter of a bourgeois capitalist whose independent spirit reacts against her background. Rand later contended that Hepburn was the ideal actress to portray Dagny Taggart, the heroine in Atlas Shrugged. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.