Why did Ayn Rand entitle her first, non-fiction collection, The Virtue of Selfishness, you ask. “For the reason that makes you afraid of it,” she answers in her rousing full-length Introduction, simultaneously penetrating, probing, promoting. With one exception, all 19 articles are reprinted from Rand’s monthly The Objectivist Newsletter (1962-65), essays difficult to obtain in original publication. (Yes, I have them.) “The Objectivist Ethics,” its leading and arguably its most important article, was never reprinted in a Rand periodical. “The Argument from Intimadation,” which closes the anthology, is Rand’s stirring, urgent contribution to Aristotle’s enumeration of logical fallacies. See if you don’t recognize its ubiquity today. To date, this is Rand’s most highly desirable non-fiction title. A near fine copy in an extremely good jacket with a small light stain on the back panel. Book #N3003. $110 Many more Rand items, including handwritten manuscript pages from Atlas Shrugged, available.
