Atlas Shrugged [35th Anniversary Edition]

Rand, Ayn

Published by A Dutton Book / Penguin Group, New York, 1992

About this Item

Fine unread condition light silver gray boards, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Titled by Ayn Rand; Author Dedication; Introduction to the 35th Anniversary Edition by Leonard Peikoff, September 1991; and About the Author. Per the copyright page: "This 35th anniversary edition is a facsimile printed from the original hardcover edition." The blank first free front endpaper contains a vintage neatly scripted gift inscription plus two unused 33 cent Ayn Rand stamps affixed to the middle of the same endpaper. "Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than three decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Ws he a destoyer or the greatest of biberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor - and the motive power of every man? These are the questions behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy .to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction . to the philosopher who becomes a pirate .to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph .to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad .to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. This is a riveting mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events - with a ruthlessly brilliant plot and irresistible suspense. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villians, male and female, charged with awesome questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a giant novel - the supreme triumph and ultimate testament of one of the towering geniuses of our time. This special 35th anniversary edition of Ayn Rand's masterwork contains an illuminating Introduction by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and legal heir." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 005768

Bibliographic Details

Title: Atlas Shrugged [35th Anniversary Edition]

Publisher: A Dutton Book / Penguin Group, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Hasselberger, Richard (jacket design); Gaetano, Nicholas (jacket illustration)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: Anniversary Edition