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Author: Atwood, Margaret
Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Place Published: Toronto
Publisher:McClelland and Stewart
Date Published: [1985]
Description: 324 pp. Duotone cloth in red and cream, illustrated jacket. First Edition.The true first edition, preceding both the U.S. and U.K. editions. The author‘s most famous work, and basis for the dystopian television series.

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Some edgewear to jacket and repair of small edge tears; light rubbing at heel, minor bump to lower front corner; near fine in very good or better jacket.

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True 1st ed. of Atwood, Handmaid's Tale

Name: True 1st ed. of Atwood, Handmaid's Tale
SKU: 176563468
Price: 375 USD
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