As New. 1st Edition. SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1963, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). "Man's life is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic--not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement" (Atlas Shrugged). Octavo, original sumptuous blue cloth, original slipcase. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, measuring 6" x 8.75". Fine in the original slipcase, with the original acetate in fine condition. An exceptionally well-preserved example, this is a Bibliophile's Copy in Every Way. Book #vP1221. $4800. (One photo shows the original advertisement for the book in Rand's periodical, The Objectivist. Available separately.) From the world's largest collection of Rare, Signed, and Manuscript, and Photographed Ayn Rand in private hands.