Atlas Shrugged

New York: Random House, 1957 First edition, first printing. Publisher's bright green cloth, stamped with author's initials in gilt to front board, stamped in black and gilt to spine, top edge stained dark blue; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by George Salter, with train tracks illustration to front panel. Very good or better book, with a touch of toning to spine, very light soiling to cloth, and mild wear to corners; very good or better unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine folds, a few small marks to panels and spine, and light wear and creasing to head of spine. Overall, a beautiful, bright copy. Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's fourth and final novel, and her longest published work. Set in a fictional dystopian future, Atlas Shrugged paints a picture of what the United States would look like if its best skilled workers, in refusal of being taxed, simply stopped doing their jobs. The title comes from the mythological figure of the Titans named Atlas, who was charged by the gods to hold up the sky and is often depicted as carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Of all Rand's novels, Atlas Shrugged is the most infused with her personal philosophical system called Objectivism, which she would later outline in her 1961 For the New Intellectual. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.