Signed book: Watership Down. First UK edition. London: Rex Collings, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 413 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page in black ballpoint, "To Nicholas Tucker, with every good wish from Richard Adams." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/G+, with an ownership inscription to the first free end page, and several small splits, tears, and stains to the dust jacket.
Includes two ALSs by Richard Adams, totaling three pages on two sheets, 5.25 x 7, May 12 and 20, 1982, both to Nicholas Tucker. The first, in part: "I remember your review. It was, as Mr. Toby Weller would have said, 'a very good 'un.' Odd to think 'Watership Down' is ten years and four books ago. I personally always preferred Shardik but perhaps that's wrong. Who is to tell?…Yes, I will sign the book for you, if you'll send it. I'm told the current market value of a signed first edition is about £200 so I leave it to you to decide whether to register or not. I seem to remember that in your review you used 'nix' as a noun. This is a bête noire of mine. You might drop the nasty practice, as a quid pro quo!" The second, in part: "Everything here in turmoil, so will not write more at the moment, but I acknowledge your cheque with thanks. I hope we meet one of these days." The letters are in fine condition. Accompanied by a copy of Tucker's review of Watership Down, published in the New Statesman on December 22, 1972, as well as a custom-made quarter-leather clamshell case.
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