8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt on a black background, top edge stained dark blue (small white smudge to upper cover); dust jacket (3-in closed tear to front panel near spine, light wear at ends).

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.