RAND, AYN
Atlas Shrugged. A novel. New York: Random House. (1957). The dust jacket bears the correct $6.95 price, has the 10/57 date at the foot of the front flap, and the publisher's full address on the back flap. Original green cloth in dust jacket, top edge green. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (21 x 14.5 cm); (vi), 1168, (iv) pp. Jacket with small losses at the head of the spine, some minor edge defects, the spine a bit toned (more noticeably on the interior), but an unrestored example. A minor stain affects the cloth at the head of the spine, though generally this is a tight, sound copy.
Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-316. Atlas Shrugged is "so filled with hate that it is hard to imagine even the anti-utopian most opposed to collectivism as able to accept its worship of selfishness. Forester, Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, after all, rejected utopia for what they thought was the good of mankind"; Hillegas The Future as Nightmare, pp. 146-47; Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 156. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 268.
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