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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.

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.