1978 Watership Down

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper, With Slipcase

Later printing, originally published in 1972. Illustrated with numerous colour and black-and-white images, with a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. An adventure novel set in Hampshire in southern England. The story features a small group of anthropomorphized rabbits who live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, but possess their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. The action follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home. Written by Richard George Adams, an English novelist best known for this work, his debut novel, which achieved international acclaim. Illustrated by John Lawrence, an English illustrator and wood engraver.