Atlas Shrugged [Eleventh Printing] Tapa dura - 1957

New York: Random House, 1957. Stated eleventh printing. Rare printing in red full-cloth boards, crisp gilt cover initials and spine titles on black field, slight shelf wear. This is the rare red cloth version of original first edition design. Deckled pages near fine, bright, clean. Charcoal colored top exterior text block. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Matching first edition facsimile jacket protected in new, clear sleeve. Striking cover art by George Salter. Scarce near fine early printing in same facsimile wrapper. In Rand's greatest achievement - and last work of fiction - she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, and sexuality. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life. Endowed w/larger-than-life characters and charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a revolutionary epic. 1184 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.