WATERSHIP DOWN

First illustrated edition, first printing. Publisher's beige paper covered boards and brown cloth spine, in dustwrapper and slipcase. Illustrated by John Lawrence in colour and black and white throughout. With a fold out map at the rear. A very good or better copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, lightly spotted to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. The map is in fine condition. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a few short closed tears (without loss) at head of the mildly toned spine. Not price-clipped (£8.75 net to the front flap). Housed in the original cloth and paper covered illustrated slipcase.

Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. A modern children's classic about a group of rabbits that must strive to save themselves when their warren is destroyed, evoking the structure and themes of classical heroic quests. The basis for several adaptations, most notably the 1978 animated film of the same name.