RAND, AYN.
Photograph Inscribed and Signed (Ayn) n.p., December, 1958, 8 x 10 inch silver print, white ink smudged with some paint loss, light age toning, else fine.
The publicity photo used on the rear panel of the first edition dust wrapper of Atlas Shrugged, inscribed to both parents of Nathaniel Branden, dedicatee of that book: To Dinah and Joe, the parents of the kind of genius I write about affectionately Ayn, and dated 12/58. Branden had been estranged from his parents for a number of years, but seemed to reconcile during this period of his intimacy with Rand.
See illustration.