Atlas Shrugged. by RAND, Ayn - 1957

New York: Random House, 1957. An attractive copy First edition, first printing, of Rand's fourth and final novel, offering her most extensive exposition of her Objectivist philosophical system: "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute" (from Rand's self-penned About the Author section).
Rand's philosophical movement launched here had a lasting impact on American culture with the novel named by a 1991 Library of Congress survey as the second most influential book in the US, following only the Bible. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, monogram to front cover in gilt, cream endpapers, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Minor bumps to spine ends, cloth bright, contents clean; an excellent copy in the very good jacket, not price-clipped, small mark to front panel, extremities a little browned and rubbed with a couple of small nicks and chips to spine ends and tips.