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Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
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Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
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The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes
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- PublisherRex Collings Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0901720313
- ISBN 13 9780901720313
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages413
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 9th printing. BP 3.95 publisher's price present on the dust jacket or book. Visually checked for defects and deviations -- Found: general edge-wear ~ library discard ~ pocket and stamps removed ~ page block quite soiled. Map attached to the rear free end paper. Seller Inventory # QC4747
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 6th printing. BP 3.95 publisher's price present on the dust jacket or book. Visually checked for defects and deviations -- Found: general edge-wear. Map attached to the rear free end paper. Seller Inventory # QC4746
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown boards with gilt titles to the spine. Cean pages. Firm binding. Jacket is price clipped. Map intact. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # s15855
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown boards with gilt titles to the spine. There is a date written on the front end page, otherwise clean pages. Firm binding. Jacket is price clipped. Map intact. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # s15856
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 8th edition 1975 - dust jacket showing a colour photograph by Jane Burton - DJ spine and upper front edge lightly sunned/faded - DJ surfaces and extremities showing slight wear - slight sunning to board edges - a few small, faint spots to the upper edge of the page block - tight and clean - VG/VG. Seller Inventory # ABE102
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Watership Down. Second Edition
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. London. Rex Collings. 1976. Originally issued by this publisher in 1972, this is an early reprint; second edition, sixth impression. Hard Cover. Sage green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Sunning to the spine and minor fading along the top and bottom edge. Faint tone to the front endpaper and flaps. Jacket is unclipped at £3.95. Colour photography to the jacket by Jane Burton. Jacket and book are at least very good plus approaching near fine and this is an attractive printing of this classic story. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way. The novel was rejected many times before Rex Collings who was a one man band publisher took it on. An uncommon reprint in attractive condition. The dust jacket will be covered with a new inert archival protective sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK are for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.35). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # 2318MAR005
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket photo by Jane Burton (illustrator). Reprint. First published in 1972 in this second edition, this is a eighth impression of 1977, a tribute to the book's popularity. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, spine very slightly faded. Not price clipped (£3.95), small previous owner's inscription to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 413pp, foldout map to rear. A worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic 'Watership Down' is one of the best loved novels of all time. Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival follows a band of very special rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout hearted pair of brothers, they leave the safety of Sandleford Warren in search of a safe haven and a mysterious promised land, skirting danger at every turn. Seller Inventory # 007801
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WATERSHIP DOWN
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Previous owners inscription on ffep. No chips or tears to dj. Internally clean & crisp. Scan available on request. Seller Inventory # 016688
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Book has a slight lean with light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight toning. Complete DJ with little wear and light toning. Ex Library. Seller Inventory # 9999-9994054325
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WATERSHIP DOWN
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(1974)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Australian edition. First Australian edition. Hard cover, with dust wrapper. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Board edges are moderately rubbed at the edges. Covers bear some light scuffing and signs of use. Head of spine rubbed. Binding is neat and tidy. Head and tail of spine bumped. Small signs of use and discolouration on free endpapers, pastedowns and half-title page, some foxing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Fold out map at the rear of book intact. This book is in fair condition. Dustwrapper has been covered in plastic contact, which is non-removable. Moderate rubbing at the corners and spine. Back cover bears light scratches and some scuff marks, also well rubbed and discoloured. Some creasing and small chips along the edges (see image). All round discoloration, else in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound. Seller Inventory # FIC1638
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