The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [CA FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1985  ❧ McClelland & Stewart ❧ True 1st!

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1985] MCCLELLAND & STEWART

Rare TRUE First of this dystopian classic, published in Canada in 1985 by McClelland & Stewart. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Minor shelf / edge wear to Dust jacket; which is overall stunning.  Now housed in a HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is near mint.  Stunning immaculate boards w/ gilded title on spine.  * 4 pages have stains to corners. [see last photo] - visible on text block as well. Otherwise reads as new. 

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...