Atwood, Margaret — Lady Oracle

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound simply in a brick-red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated paper dust jacket, lighter wear to panels, heavier edge-wear, and price-clipped. This novel, Lady Oracle, is Margaret Atwood's third, one that savagely parodies Gothic romances and fairy tales. True First Edition, published simultaneously also in the U.S. It became a co-winner with Margaret Gibson's short story collection, The Butterfly Ward, of a Toronto-specific literary prize. The protagonist, Joan Foster, a romance novelist, is investigated in flashback and in scenes from the present as she becomes a feminist poet and that gains her some degree of fame, so much so that she must fake her own death and flee in exile. 345 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,