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Richard Adams. Watership Down

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Richard Adams. Watership Down
<B>Richard Adams. </B></I><B><I>Watership Down</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1972.<BR><BR>First American edition. With a one page Typed Letter Signed by the author tipped-in vertically between the front free endpaper and the half-title page. Octavo. 429 pages.<BR><BR>Publisher's original beige boards and matching cloth backstrip with titles in gilt on the spine. Light shelf wear with some soiling to the edges. Text block ever-so-slightly skewed. Internal contents clean and tight. Dust jacket moderately soiled. Overall, a very good copy.<BR><BR>In the brief letter Adams writes in part: "I did not want to be a writer during my days as a civil servant; and I wrote 'Watership Down' simply at the behest of my two daughters, then aged nine and seven, who asked me to write down for them the story which I had told them orally." <I>From the Robert and Diane Yaspan Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)