THE DAY GONE BY : An Autobiography

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.