8vo. Original green cloth gilt, top edge stained navy (some minor scuffing); dust jacket (clipped, some toning, some chipping or scuffing). Provenance: unidentified Marvin David Davis, gifted to; Sara Lee Davis Sigoloff (1928-2020) (gift inscription, 1957).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the words “First Printing” on the copyright page, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with “10/57” at the bottom of the front flap, and with the publisher’s name and address at the bottom of the rear flap. Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s fourth and final novel, is her most extensive statement of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States.