Fine Books & Manuscripts

RAND, Ayn (1905–1982). Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, [1957]. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt (few spots of fraying at ends, joints starting; lower inner hinge cracked), top edges stained blue; facsimile dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Rand’s fourth and final novel of her Objectivist philosophy, depicted in a dystopian United States. –– [Together with:] RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. New York and Indianapolis: The Bobbs–Merrill Company, [1943]. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth titled in gilt (spine darkened and rubbed at ends, upper joint starting), lacking dust jacket. Early edition. –– Together, 2 works in 2 volumes.