Description: Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, spine darkened and rubbed at ends, upper joint starting, pictorial dust jacket with Ain Rand photograph portrait on the back, unclipped ($3,00).

Title-page: The | FOUNTAINHEAD | By AYN RAND | THE BOBBS–MERRILL COMPANY, INC. | Publishers | INDIANAPOLIS {space} NEW YORK ||

Pagination: [1-6] 9-753 [754].

Edition: First edition, later printing; lacks “First edition” statement; blue cloth; photo on the back of DJ, p. 321 line 5 “referred”, p. 480 “Domininque” twice.