Mountains Mind by Macfarlane Robert, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, SECOND impression, signed to the title page by Robert Macfarlane; his first book. Near Fine+: tight and square binding in sharp blue boards; very bright, crisp and clean, and certainly unread; Fine but for a bump to the heel of the spine. The unclipped dustwrapper is likewise Near Fine+: crisp and vibrant; minor wrinkling to the spine tips; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. All orders are sent carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the Author on the title page. A very small amount of wrinkling at the head and tail of the spine else as new. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustwrapper - fitted with a removable clear mylar cover - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & DOODLED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustwrapper - fitted with a removable clear mylar cover - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & LINED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second impression. 8vo. Pp 306. Illustrations. Original cloth. Unclipped d/w. With a nice personalised inscription, dated (27/03/04, Cromarty) and signed by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth, fine pages, in equally fine dustjacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page with the date of 15.xi.08 and the words 'Rucksack Club Dinner/Disley'. The book was owned by Arthur Howcroft, Honorary Vice-President of the European Ramblers Association, a passionate walker and climber, and a member of the Rucksack Club (founded in 1902), who died in February 2023. His small booklabel is on the lower verso of the half-title and on the lower rear flap. The author was guest speaker at this dinner in Disley, a small village near Howcroft's home in Stockport, whence came his signature. A nice association copy, in excellent condition, of Macfarlane's first, award-winning book, already a classic in the literature of mountains.

First editions, all signed by the author, four works additionally signed by the contributors Jackie Morris, Stanley Donwood, and Luke Adam Hawker. This representative collection of Macfarlane's writings includes his first book, Mountains of the Mind, winner of the 2004 Somerset Maugham Award; his acclaimed work of linguistic preservation, The Lost Words; and his latest publication, Firefly. From perilous peaks to ancient woodlands and the subterranean world, Macfarlane's explorations of nature and culture have received widespread popular and critical acclaim. The Lost Words, championing terms such as acorn and bramble which were dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary due to lack of use by children, inspired fundraising which placed a copy in every Scottish primary school and British hospice. "Swimming down a tidal cave in Wales, [Macfarlane] saw at the end of it 'a vast white boulder. shaped roughly like a throne', undocumented, unexplained. A cave in Cumbria, in northern England, was framed by two great guard-stones with a holly tree across the entrance, just like the entrance to Moria in Tolkien. But what he sees is not fantasy. Nor is his whole project to 're-wild' our vocabulary. It is also to stretch our shrunken imaginations, even (he hopes, in the end) to 'irrigate the dry meta-language of modern policy making'. He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation" (Shippey). Holloway (2013) and Ness (2019) are both first trade editions, each published the previous year in a limited edition by Quive-Smith. The Lost Words and Firefly are signed on the publisher's bookplate. Tom Shippey, "Why You Can't Say Where You Are", Wall Street Journal, 5 Aug. 2016. Together, 11 works, octavos and a quarto. Many illustrations, including colour and photographic. Original bindings with dust jackets (Lost Words and Firefly issued without jacket). Barcode sticker on jacket rear panel of Lost Spells. Overall, a fine set in fine, unclipped jackets.