May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) ADAMS, RICHARD. Watership Down. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, cocked, front wrapper cleanly separating along joint, light soiling and tanning; with original pictorial dust jacket from the trade edition supplied. uncorrected proof copy. Reg Sones's copy (indicated in his hand in black pen on front wrapper margin) with numerous editorial annotations comprising suggested deletions, additions and other emendations to the text. London: Rex Collings, 1972

Additional Details

Includes ALS from the author to Sones laid-in; contents include an invitation to visit, his eagerness to begin a new chess match with Sones, and an aside that makes clear Adams's dislike of the 1978 animated film version of his book.