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.