Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957 [but 1967]



8vo (8 x 6 ins; 227 x 145 mm). Publisher's gilt-titled blue cloth, top edge stained blue in gray card slipcase as as issued; darker blue title panel on spine rubbed, front hinge tender. Quarter gilt blue morocco and marbled boards folding case.

Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (New York, 2009)

darker blue title panel on spine rubbed, front hinge tender. Quarter gilt blue morocco and marbled boards folding case.
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Tenth anniversary edition signed by the author. Number 12 from an edition of 2,000, this is a heavily annotated copy from a member of her select circle, Erika Holzer. Erika and her husband Henry Mark ("Hank")  Holzer were Rand's attorneys, joining her close-knit group in the early 1960s. When this Anniversary edition was issued, those closest to Rand, the famed "inner circle" (including her lover Nathaniel Branden and his wife, Alan Greenspan, etc.) were given the chance to purchase low-numbered copies.

In a detailed included letter Holzer describes many late night discussions of fiction-writing with Rand and her creative process. It was during these personal "tutorials" that the numerous passages herein were underlined and/or commented on in pencil, as Holzer listened devotedly to Rand.

Holzer subsequently abandoned law entirely and devoted her energies to writing full time, producing numerous articles on Objectivism and two full-length novels. Her husband was a key member of Rand's campaign against the Draft during Vietnam, but as so often happened, Rand broke with them in the early 1970s after a decade-long association as perhaps her closest legal advisors.