THE DAY GONE BY : An Autobiography
by Adams, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679401172
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401179
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First American Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/ price-clipped else Fine; under mylar. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper/lower text edges. Autobiography of English novelist and writer Richard Adams (1920 -). Best known for Watership Down, an epic tale of a group of rabbits, possessing a rich culture, language (Lapine), proverbs, poetry, and mythology, as they escape the destruction of their warren to seek a new place of home; there aim is to re-settle in Watership Downs, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. This autobiography, covering childhood to the end of World War II in which Adams served, is a narrative of happy childhood in idyllic England nutured by a father who inspired a keen love of nature, and maturity when that way of life ceased to be. Another story about Watership Down. Fine copy.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE DAY GONE BY : An Autobiography
- Author
- Adams, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0679401172
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401179
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Autobiography/Memoir/Watership Down
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