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Lot Description

RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957.

8vo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge stained dark blue (very slight sunning extreme top edge); original pictorial dust jacket (some very slight toning, a few faint spots verso, some slight rubbing).

FIRST EDITION with "First Printing" statement on copyright page. In the FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with “10/57” at the bottom of the front flap, and lacking review blurbs. Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s fourth and final novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States.

Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie

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