8vo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge stained dark blue; dust jacket (light chipping and short creases to extremities).

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.