"…AND TOGETHER THEY SLIPPED AWAY, RUNNING EASILY DOWN THROUGH THE WOOD, WHERE THE FIRST PRIMROSES WERE BEGINNING TO BLOOM"
ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London: Rex Collings, 1972. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Adams' first and best-loved book, a beautiful copy with fine color folding map at rear and in lovely unrestored original dust jacket.
"An outstandingly popular animal story… in a few years the book's popularity in English-speaking countries had come to rival that of The Lord of the Rings" (Carpenter & Prichard, 563). "Here is the Odyssey and Iliad of rabbits, for people of all ages—a splendidly written adventure story" (New York Times Books of the Century). Awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's fiction.
Fine condition.