Watership Down by Richard Adams 1974 Macmillan Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Watership Down by Richard Adams is a 1974 Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. hardcover with its illustrated dust jacket, 429 pages, and ISBN 0-02-700030-3.

Adams follows a band of rabbits forced from their home and searching for a safer place to build a new warren, turning their journey into a story of survival, leadership, loyalty, and resistance. This substantial early American hardcover is a strong reading copy for someone looking for the classic novel in its recognizable 1970s Macmillan format rather than a later paperback or modern reissue. 

Details

• Title: Watership Down
• Author: Richard Adams
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York
• Publication Year: 1974 U.S. issue, with 1972 Rex Collings Ltd. copyright
• Edition and Printing: Macmillan U.S. edition, later printing. Exact printing not confirmed from photos
• Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
• Pages: 429
• ISBN: 0-02-700030-3
• Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 2 inches

Condition: Very Good

Clean, sound copy with crisp, easy-to-read pages. Dust jacket is clean overall with some fading and light age and edge wear. There is a very small tear at the lower dust jacket spine edge. A previous owner's handwritten name appears on the red front endpaper. The Richard Adams signature printed in the jacket design is not an author autograph.

Collector's Notes

The copyright page credits Rex Collings Ltd. 1972, while this American Macmillan issue dates to 1974. The photographed copyright page does not confirm a first printing, so this copy is conservatively identified as a later Macmillan U.S. printing.