THE HANDMAID'S TALE

First Folio edition, first printing and first edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original grey cloth with red and black titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour, with frontispiece and six full page plates by Anna and Elena Balbusso. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps, complete with the lightly rubbed slipcase.

Winner of the first Arthur C. Clarke Award, shortlisted for The Booker Prize and nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, Atwood's futuristic feminist dystopian novel has been the basis for film and Emmy Award winning screen adaptations.