THE HANDMAID'S TALE

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Fred Marcellino illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping to the spine ends and rubbing to the extremities. The contents, with a small bookseller's label to the lower edge front pastedown, light offsetting on the front endpaper and some toning to the paper stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased, price-clipped dustwrapper, that has some tiny abrasions to the upper spine tips and some ripples in the laminate (a production flaw), and is otherwise free from fading, loss or tears.

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 television adaptations.