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ATWOOD, Margaret (b. 1939). The Handmaid’s Tale. [Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, [1985]. 8vo. 324, [4, blank] pp. Publisher’s brown cloth backstrip over cream boards, spine lettered in off-white, publisher’s unclipped (“$22.95) dust jacket (minor rubbing to cloth spine, minor chipping to jacket spine at head- and tailcap, light rubbing to jacket panels). Fine. THE TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ATWOOD’S MAGNUM OPUS, a multiple-award winning and nominated title, and the basis of the 1990 film starring Natasha Richardson, and the hit television series (2017-2024) starring Elizabeth Moss.