Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986
Margaret Atwood's best-known novel; The Handmaid's Tale is a dark & disturbing vision of a future all too readily believable, set in the monotheocracy of Gilead and following the misadventures of Offred, attached to the Handmaid class and made to suffer various injustices and indignities.
First American edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket with artwork by Fred Marcellino, slight toning and a few tiny spots to white ground but overall a fine, sharp and unclipped example.
First American edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket with artwork by Fred Marcellino, slight toning and a few tiny spots to white ground but overall a fine, sharp and unclipped example.
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