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[AYN RAND] Gollivud, amerikanskiy kino-gorod [i.e. Hollywood, An American Movie-City]

Rosenbaum, A.

Item #2112

Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1926. 48 pp.: ill., portr., ads . 16.5x13 cm. Original photomontage wrappers. Very good, staples slightly rusty.

First edition. Scarce.

This is the second and the last book written by the famous Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982) before emigrating to the United States of America.
On October 2, 1921, Alisa Rosenbaum enrolled at the Petrograd University in the department of social pedagogy that combined history, philology, and law. Along with many other bourgeois students (Alisa was to a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family), she was purged from the university shortly before graduating. After complaints from a group of visiting foreign scientists, however, many of the purged students were allowed to complete their work and graduate, which she did in October 1924. Alisa then continued her studies at the State Technicum for Screen Arts, where she, as a part of an assignment, wrote a 2,500- word monograph on the Polish actress Pola Negri. In 1925, her writing came out as a separate edition in the Popular Cinema Library series. A year later, Alisa printed her second and the last work Hollywood, An American Movie-City before
emigrating to the United States. She became a permanent American resident in July 1929 and an American citizen on March 3, 1931. Rand’s first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay Red Pawn to Universal Studios in 1932, although it was never produced. This was followed by the courtroom drama Night of January 16th, first produced by E. Clive in Hollywood in 1934 and then successfully reopened on Broadway in 1935. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, the Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged.
Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
This edition, with remarkable photomontage wrappers and illustrations throughout, is dedicated to ‘the city of happiness’ - Hollywood and the 1920s movie industry stars.

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