"Atlas Shrugged is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment." 

--Alan Greenspan, in a letter to the New York Times Book Review, October, 1957.

First edition of Atlas Shrugged,
An excellent copy 

Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. Thick octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $1900.

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

First edition, first issue of one of the most influential books of the century. Book near-fine with only slight fading to spine; original un-restored dust jacket with very minimal signs rubbing to spine extremities.  An excellent, bright copy, rare in this condition.