Made into the 1990 film and the basis for the 2017 television series. Book club edition. Foxing on top edge, small impression from a removed sticker on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (age toning to rear panel edges) dust jacket.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover, 311 pages. Good +/Poor. Fred Marcellino. First Edition. Half cloth bound with gilding on outer spine. Bumping to top and bottom of outer spine with minor bumping to corners. Light bowing to front board. Soiling to boards and to text block. Foxing to text block. Light scuffing and soiling to back paste-down and inlay page. Small folds to upper corners of pages 309 to end pages. Heavy foxing and soiling to inner and outer dust jacket. Creasing and scuffing to dust jacket. Chipping to top and bottom of spine with small pieces missing. Chipping to flap folds.
BCE with red spine and gray boards dated 1986. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with sharp corners and light creasing. looks nice in its new mylar cover. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. BCE with red spine and gray boards dated 1986. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with sharp corners and light creasing. looks nice in its new mylar cover. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.
Clean, unmarked text with a tight binding. Blue cloth spine and gray paper-covered boards. Second printing. Slight edge wear. Keywords: Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's Tale, Dystopia, Theocracy, Gilead, Offred, New England, Totalitarian, Dictatorship, Religion, Christianity, Speculative Fiction, Infertility, Satire.
first U.S. edition first printing hardcover in correct publisher's dust jacket; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; clean 1/4 cloth cover bright titling; little rub wear at spine ends and corner tips; dj has some sunning along spine and top panel edges; dj edge wear:small nicks at spine ends, short tear at spine heel; flap price present M76Dambib
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Full number line 10-1 of the cult phenomenom. Includes publisher's promotional postcard with perforated bookmark. In grey boards with turquoise spine cloth and silver type. Hard bumps to bottom corners with split at bottom front and crease to rear board. A couple spot stains to rear board and small moisture stain to top of rear spine cloth. Clean interior and tight binding. Jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with some paper/lamination loss (perhaps one eighth inch in spots) to top edges - especially front panel. Some tiny chips/nicks to bottom edges as well. Light fading to front panel.
Very good, clean, tight condition. First printing, full number line. Price clipped jacket in mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. First printing, full number line. Price clipped jacket in mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1986 Houghton Mifflin FIRST edition of Atwood's acclaimed futuristic novel. This book is in VG/VG condition. The HB is clean with a long inscription on the ffep. The DJ is unclipped and has minor wear at the spine ends. BONUS BOOK: "The Testaments", 1st Edition in F/F Condition. **Brenbooks specializes in first edition books made into films.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. :: A scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force- set in the near future, it describes what was once the United States, now called The Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. :: Bound in publisher's cerulean blue & gray paper-covered boards, author, title, and publisher are lettered down the spine in silver. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 233 x 158 millimeters). 311 pages. Condition: Good+, in a Very Good- dust jacket. Boards are worn, stained, and corners are significantly rubbed. Spine is cocked and has collapsed a bit. Textblock foxed. Dust jacket is thoroughly toned with moisture staining. Innermost front panel has diagonal crease at top corner.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986. 1st U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fred Marcellino. The book cover and the edges of the page block are slightly soiled. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and unclipped ($16.95). V 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line.
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