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, and dark blue topstain; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by George Salter, with train tracks illustration to front panel, and correct $6.95 price to front flap. Fine book, with an unfaded spine, and just a touch of soiling to bottom edge of text block; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with light wear to head of spine, some soiling to rear panel, and a nick to top corner of rear flap fold. Overall, a bright and sturdy copy. Perinn A4a. Housed in a custom blue-green clamshell box. 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 For the New Intellectual (1961). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.