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“A STAMP ALBUM IS A MIRACULOUS BRAIN-RESTORER”
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RAND, AYN. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, draft of her article entitled “Why
I Like Stamp Collecting,” published in a 1971 issue of Jacques Minkus’s
Stamp Journal
(vol.
VI, No. 2), with extensive corrections throughout, many in red ink. 16
1
/
2
pages, 4to, pale
blue paper; minor scattered soiling.
Np, 13 February 1971
[3,000/4,000]
In addition to an account of her own experiences as a collector, Rand’s article includes some
characteristic social commentary: “There is a sense of ‘brotherhood’ among stamp collectors . . . :
the brotherhood of holding the same values. In the midst of today’s cynical inversion and corrup-
tion of all values, one seldom meets a person with whom one has any interest in common; most
people today do not actually value or enjoy anything.”