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New York: Nan A. Talese (2019). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. GW/F2600.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed paper boards, decorative endpapers. Printed price of £20.00 to rear board, no dust-jacket as issued. Fine. A graphic adaption of Atwood's chilling dystopian classic.

293 pages. Printed in Canada; cover printed in USA; September 1986. Full numberline. Spine crease. Interior is unmarked. Publisher's number stamp, and date stamp, to top edge.

About the book: Hardcover. No jacket. First Printing Thus, in collaboration with Indigo Books. Book is in very good condition with some wear/bumping to top of spine. Interior clean. A unique copy -- unable to find another copy online. Additional photos available upon request.

The very bottom and very top of the binding at the spine are rubbed. Dust jacket has a small irregurlar shaped tear bottom of front panel, is slightly faded on the spine panel, and has a short tear bottom of rear panel, otherwise the dust jacket is clean and is not price-clipped. A novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize and basis of 1990 film of the same name, and the highly successful TV series. 324 pages.

The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition with Original Dust Jacket. 311 pp, 9 x 6". In good condition. DJ exhibits general shelf wear & light soiling to rear cover. Head and tail of DJ are also scuffed & beginning to chip. DJ is also price clipped. Blue cloth spine is lightly toned around head and tail from sun exposure. Gilt lettering bright and clean. Paper boards scuffed at edges & corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed. Previous ownership signature and blind stamp found on front end-page: Liz Whaley. Light toning throughout text-block; no known marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics." She is also the founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. This is a very clean copy of Atwood's most famous work The Handmaid's Tale. Would make a lovely gift.

The book is in good condition. The lettering to the spine is bright and unrubbed. There is a scrape to the bottom of the spine. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. There are no signatures, bookplates, or markings of any kind. This book is a First Edition / First Printing printed by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1986. The book comes with its rare original dustjacket. The Jacket is in good condition with some light rubbing and light wear to its edges. A rare copy of Atwood's classic work.

Excellent, only very minimal signs of wear to the unclipped dust jacket, the book itself is in excellent condition.

The book comes with a protective mylar cover. All our books are second hand and as so may have slight wear, creasing or scuffing. They have each been examined and are complete to the best of our knowledge. If you require more detail on condition, please do not hesitate to contact us for additional photos and description.



Octovo hardcover full number line tight and solid binding, clean and fresh pages a hint of rub to tips of covers else FINE in very bright and glossy dustcovering with faint texturing at base of spine else a FINE DJ now in clear mylar jacket protector. Very bright and scintillating copy. Made into a tv series a companion novel to Orwell's 1984 a visionary novel.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

Octovo hardcover full number line tight and solid binding, clean and fresh pages a hint of rub to tips of covers else FINE in very bright and glossy dustcovering with faint texturing at base of spine else a FINE DJ now in clear mylar jacket protector. Very bright and scintillating copy. Made into a tv series a companion novel to Orwell's 1984 a visionary novel.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.