NMLP P-020608 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) · 1985

McClelland & Stewart Toronto 1985 is the true first; Houghton Mifflin Boston 1986 is the first US; Jonathan Cape London 1986 is the first UK. The 1985 Canadian issue has clear precedence and won the 1985 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020608 for "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020608, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).