The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · Jonathan Cape, 1986 · uncorrected proof · Uncorrected Proof Copy · trial dust jacket
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How to identify this edition
These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of The Handmaid's Tale.
✓ Wrappers: original red printed card wrappers, UNCORRECTED PROOF repeated along the foot of the front, under a row of Jonathan Cape devices.
✓ Preliminary leaf: a provisional publication date of 13 March 1986.
✓ Trial dust jacket: the unused Ian Hands design (a handmaid in red with a winged white bonnet), PROOF ONLY – Provisional Publication Date June 13 1986 on the rear flap, a photograph of Atwood and a blurb from The Times on the verso.
✓ Price: £8.95 on the trial jacket (unclipped).
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