RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: Random House, 1961. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edge stained yellow; original pictorial dust jacket (minor soiling to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RAND on half-title of Rand's first non-fiction work. Rand viewed the work as a "cultural commercial" for her novels which helped increase sales of recently-published paperback editions of Atlas Shrugged and We are the Living.