NMLP P-020607 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) · 1985

The key first-issue jacket point is the descriptive blurb likening the book to 'A Clockwork Orange, as seen by women,' set in a near-future locale resembling Cambridge, Massachusetts; a first-state jacket carries its original printed price on the flap

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-020607 for "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020607, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).