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Ayn Rand. The Objectivist Newsletter, Vol. 1-4 (New York: 1962-1965) – First four volumes of The Objectivist Newsletter (the only issues with the word Newsletter in the title) published by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden, 12 issues per volume.
Quarto. 56, 50, 52, 62 pages. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth-covered boards stamped in silver on front cover and spine. Blue endpapers. Probably the 1965 issuance as there is no publication date on the title page.
Condition: VG. Tiny note on upper right corner of first free endpaper. No other writing noticed.
“The Objectivist Newsletter
“The first Objectivist periodical was The Objectivist Newsletter, a four-page newsletter that began publishing in January 1962. The newsletter was co-published by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden and grew out of the previous success of the Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI), which Branden had founded in 1958 (originally as Nathaniel Branden Lectures) to promote Objectivism. By late 1961, NBI had accumulated a mailing list of over 10,000 people, which was used to announce the newsletter.
“A number of different writers contributed articles to The Objectivist Newsletter, including Martin Anderson, Barbara Branden, Edith Efron, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen, and Leonard Peikoff. However, the majority of the articles were written by either Ayn Rand or Nathaniel Branden.
“In 1965, Rand and Branden decided to change the format of the publication. In October 1965, they announced that The Objectivist Newsletter would become The Objectivist. This was purely a change of name and format, with business operations, including subscriptions, continuing unchanged.” – Wikipedia
