Richard Adams

The library of Watership Down author Richard Adams is up for auction: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/20/watership-down-authors-personal-li...

Oooh nice! And apparently from a few volumes retained by the family, this is the whole thing, except that they've bunched a whole series of lots together in big jumbles and only cataloged a few. Catalog is at https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/catalogues/73_dw101-181_listing_low_res.pdf. I wonder if we can get full listings of those miscellaneous lots! I'll write today and ask.

Wrote the auction house to ask about the group lots - will keep you posted! Hopefully there's an inventory; that would be excellent.

So, I heard back from the auction house (very quickly and kindly) - unfortunately they don't have a full list ... anybody live in Gloucestershire and want to go spend some time with Richard Adams' books? How inconvenient to be on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes. I've written back again with more questions. They also said there is some number of books not included in this sale, so I've inquired about those as well.

Curious about the Adams library, JBD1: don't know much about this author outside of reading Watership Down decades ago, but what little I've come across in recent years is intriguing. Here's hoping someone nearby has an interest and time to get more detail about the books.

Awesome!

I hate to bring down the happy fascination of this thread but now, whenever I think of Watership Down - and Richard Adams, I remember reading that James Herriot loathed Watership Down - and was a Tory who admired Margaret Thatcher.

Found it really spoiling of my feelings towards JH or Alf Something in reality... Wight?

The same reaction I had after reading and adoring Narnia, as a little girl, before being pulled up by the realisation that the last book was a quagmire of Christian PR and later, I read CSL bullied dear old John Betjeman so badly that he almost left uni...