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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.

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.

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

First edition, first printing. SIGNED to title-page. A superior copy indeed, and a fascinating collectable that will continue to shape up strongly. Complete with a very full range of the various official promotional items, as shown, including the scarce button badge and tote bag. Quite uncommon thus. Both book itself and lovely dust-wrapper are in Very Fine condition, and the book remains a distinctly superb and bright example. Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2019 Booker prize with her dazzling follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale", sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo. Atwood's eighteenth novel and second Booker prize win, "The Testaments", is set more than fifteen years after the events of "The Handmaid's Tale." Offered by D B WATERS RARE BOOKS: Professional, full-time booksellers of fine, select 1st editions. Established in 1998. As befits a rare book, all dust-wrappers are housed within transparent, removable protectors. All our stock is fully guaranteed as authentic, a sample of which is presented here on this website. As long-established specialist sellers, we never stock any first edition that is devalued by serious flaws such as price-clipping, dedications, remainder dots, or owner markings, etc. A small, boutique business with an enviable client base. Managed by David, a holder of a Masters degree in Modern Fiction from the UEA, and published author by Nightjar Press. Contact us for friendly assistance in building your collection of modern highlights.

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.

8vo. 338pp. Black paper boards lettered in red, white, and gray. Light rubbing to the board edges and corners, corners very lightly bumped, dust jacket and wrap-around band about fine. Signed by Atwood on the title-page. The first Japanese edition, published in 1990, and translated by Eiji Saito.

First Canadian printing of each book. Issued in 1985 and 2019 respectively. Testaments is signed by Atwood; Handmaid's Tale is not. An excellent example of The Handmaid's Tale, with light spotting to top edge of textblock, a half inch closed tear to rear panel of the unclipped jacket, and only slight rubbing of the burgundy at head and foot of spine. The Testaments is as-new. Jacket of each in a removable archival sleeve.

Maragret Atwood (1986) 'The Handmaid's Tale', UK first edition, first printing, published by Jonathan Cape. Signed on the title page by Atwood. Signed on 28 May 2018 at the Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival. We include the original event ticket as provenance. Condition: a near fine book for the harshest of judges in a fine dust jacket. Some usual browning/ ageing to the paper commensurate with age. No previous owners' inscriptions. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize; winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Adapted as a movie in 1990, and once more as a TV-series starring Elisabeth Moss which won multiple Emmy Awards. An iconic book and the Handmaid's robe used in the global women's rights movement. First and Fine