8vo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge stained dark blue (rubbing); original pictorial dust jacket (some very slight toning, a few faint spots verso, some slight rubbing); quarter green morocco folding case gilt. Provenance: David Hagen (presentation inscription from author).

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. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY AYN RAND TO DAVID HAGEN, "With my best wishes." Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s fourth and final novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States.