Watership Down. New York: Macmillan, 1972. First American Edition. Quarter cloth over paper boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, with author’s signature embossed in gilt to upper cover. Original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Ownership name to front free endpaper, a nice bright copy.

A book that was initially rejected by major publishers, now regarded as a cornerstone work in modern fantasy literature.

Richard Adams’s Watership Down was first published in the UK in 1972 by Rex Collings, a small London publisher. The novel’s initial success, selling over 100,000 copies in its first year, paved the way for the American edition.