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ADAMS, Richard (1920-2016). Watership Down. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., [1972].
Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ADAMS on the title-page. Adams’s first novel Watership Down was initially turned down by the major publishing houses, before publication by Rex Collings in 1972, and it was quickly established as a major work of British post–war literature. Sales exceeded 100,000 copies in the first year, and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction. It was also the source of numerous adaptations for film and television including the 1978 British animated adventure–drama that was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.