Watership Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Middlesex: Penguin/Kestrel Books, 1979. Third Impression Thus. Pp, 154 with pull out map to rear. Quarter cloth, cream paper boards, in pictorial dust jacket & matching slipcase. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Signed by both the Author and the Illustrator opposite the title page. 

First published in 1972, the book was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction.

This is the third printing of the first illustrated edition, with the lovely colour illustrations by John Lawrence.

A nice presentation edition of one of the finest books ever written for children; scarce & collectable with both signatures.