Atlas Shrugged. Rand, Ayn.

First edition, first printing, of Rand's 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" (Rand, "About the Author"). Its huge influence on American conservative and libertarian thought continues to be felt. Octavo, pp. 1168. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, author's initials stamped on front cover within gilt frame, cream endpapers, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Binding firm and unfaded, faint mark to prelims; unclipped jacket rubbed in places, with a few nicks, colours bright, faint marks on verso: a fine copy in an excellent jacket.