[Rand, Ayn]

Cigarette box (92 x 78 mm), containing 3 unfiltered cigarettes, each stamped in gold with a dollar sign. Box with cream paper wrap-around label printed in gold with "Who is John Galt? They know at Random House", and with 1 blue 10¢ federal cigarette tax stamp, 1 - ½¢ tax stamp for New York City,  1-1½¢ tax stamp for New York State, inside of box with cream colored label "Random House Inc., 457 Madison Avenue, New York 22" printed in gold with light wear and some faint stains. 

Heller, Ann Conover, Ayn Rand and the World She Lived in. Anchor Books, 2009.

A promotional item distributed by Rand's agent Alan Collins and Bennet Cerf (one of the founders of Random House) at the banquet given in Rand's honor at the Plaza Hotel. In the novel, Galt's Gulch Cigarettes were manufactured by the Mulligan Tobacco Company in Galt's Gulch and smoked by John Galt's fellow strikers.

Rand's protagonist Dagny Taggart searches for the cigarettes for much of the novel after being offered by Dr. Hugh Akston: "She had driven far down the winding road, and the lights of the diner were long since out of sight, when she noticed that she was enjoying the taste of the cigarette that he had given her: it was different from any she had ever smoked before. She held the small remnant to the light of the dashboard, looking for the name of the brand. There was no name, only a trademark. Stamped in gold on the thin, white paper there stood the sign of the dollar."