ATLAS SHRUGGED     A NOVEL BY AYN RAND

RANDOM HOUSE      NEW YORK      1957

Stated first printing.  Green full-cloth boards, crisp gilt cover initials and spine titles on sharp black field, light shelf wear.  Deckled pages near fine, clean; slight discoloration at lower text block.  Signature at front endpaper: "Joyce Dunn".  Paperclip mark and slight tear (see photo). Price clipped. Bind fine; hinges intact.  Matching first edition facsimile jacket (a small part torn off the rear side – see photo) protected in new, clear sleeve.  Striking cover art by George Salter.  Very attractive.  Rare, very good first printing.

In Rand's greatest achievement - and last work of fiction - she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, and sexuality.  Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life.  Endowed w/larger-than-life characters and charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a revolutionary epic.