{"product_id":"watership-down-richard-adams-first-illustrated-edition-1976-4","title":"Watership Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarmondsworth: Penguin Books \/ Kestrel Books, 1976. First illustrated edition, first impression. Sized 24 x 16cm, pp.550, plus folding map. With full colour plates by John Lawrence, and numerous marginal sketches in black and white. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with black titles and gilt ruling to spine, cream paper over boards, and orange endpapers. With the price-clipped illustrated jacket, and the matching publisher's slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good copy, binding with the lightest lean but firm, with mildest crushing to foot of spine and lower-front corner, an inscription in pen to front pastedown and slight break to gutter to rear (before page 541). In the slightly worn dust jacket that is price-clipped to front flap, lightly creased and nibbled to extremities and sunned to spine, with a small nick to rear panel and with two short closed tears to front (one a little longer than the other). Contained in a good slipcase that is a tad worn and marked, and is slightly discoloured to rear. Still a lovely copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first printing of the first illustrated edition of Adams' famous tale about a group of rabbits escaping the destruction of their home to seek safety and freedom, facing trials that test their courage and unity. First published in 1972, 'Watership Down' began as a story told by the author to his daughters and grew into a modern classic. It won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53310616404307,"sku":null,"price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/Watership-Down-RICHARD-ADAMS-John-Lawrence-FIRST-Illustrated-EDITION-1976_25.webp?v=1774360188","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/watership-down-richard-adams-first-illustrated-edition-1976-4","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}