RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. 8vo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge stained dark blue; original pictorial dust jacket (minor chipping to edges, some minor rubbing, darkening to folds). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with price $6.95 and "10/57" at the bottom of the front flap, and with the publisher's name and address at the bottom of the rear inner flap. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's fourth and final novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States.