Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1985). First edition, 2nd printing. 8vo. 311 pp. Original bone white cloth-covered boards over crimson cloth, spine stamped in white, in original price-clipped dust-jacket. Light edge wear, a few nicks, a closed, taped tear to top panel corner. Handling and shelf wear to jacket. Spine ends with some chipping, fray. Spine mildly faded. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges, corners, particular to spine crown. Corners lightly bumped, curled. Page edges with light vintage toning. Interior is clean and unmarked sans previous owner’s name and date to front free end paper.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "Handmaids", women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead. The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award.“