square peg vintage penguin random house london (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Laura Barrett (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean square and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 322pp. When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy, and played by the tracks with the Railway Children. With Charlotte's Web she discovered Death and with Judy Blume it was Boys. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket money on amassing her own at home. In 'Bookworm' Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love and gratitude. She relives our best beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. She also disinters a few forgotten treasures to inspire the next generation of bookworms and set them on their way. Quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Stephen Parker (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some minuscule edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£17.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks almost unread. 264pp. It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines, the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape. In 'Linescapes', Hugh Warwick unravels the far reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn, as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments. Hugh Warwick has travelled across the country to explore this linescape from the perspective of our wildlife and to understand how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our flora and fauna to flourish. 'Linescapes' offers a fresh and bracing perspective on Britain's countryside, one that proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope, for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife. Scarce in this first impression.