Ness by Robert Macfarlane, Used (20 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Condition: Very Good. 1776693002. 4/20/2026 1:50:02 PM.

Condition: good.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. Author: Robert MacfarlaneFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 96Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words What happens when the land comes to life? Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a concrete-and-iron structure called The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass. He plans to detonate a thermonuclear missile. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human figures - or forms, or forces - are traversing the landscape, moving steadily towards a point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness is the land awakened. Ness is lichen skin and willow-bones, condensing mist and tidal drift. Ness has hagstones for eyes and Ness speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. Paperback.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Orford Ness, een landtong voor de oostkust van Engeland die het Britse leger ooit gebruikte als kernwapentestcentrum, is prijsgegeven aan de natuur. In een vervallen bunker, de Groene Kapel, leidt De Wapenmeester een rituele ceremonie met een verschrikkelijk doel. Vijf natuurkrachten, het, hij, ze, zij en als, naderen over land, zee en door de lucht de Groene Kapel om het plan van De Wapenmeester te verijdelen. In de gedaante van natuurelementen (zwammen, korstmossen, stenen, vogels) nemen ze Ness en De Wapenmeester en zijn volgelingen langzaam in bezit. De natuur, Ness zelf, heeft het laatste woord, ook als de mensheid allang is verdwenen, ook in de diepe tijd. Robert Macfarlane en Stanley Donwood schiepen in woord en beeld een moderne mythe (deels novelle, deels prozagedicht, deels mysterieus toneelstuk) in een unieke taal met een duizelingwekkend effect.; Scheurtje geplakt hoek voorkant stofomslag; snee in rug stofomslag geplakt.

Condition: Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition thus first printing and signed by Robert MacFarlane without dedication to exclusive signed edition page tipped in before half title. Book fine with tight corners and clean text block. Dustjacket has no visible flaws. Unread and as new. Not price clipped at £14.99. Nice collectable signed first edition. Small book. Thanks for looking and please check out my other books and signed books on Abe. 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 dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY ROBERT MACFARLANE - Pictures of the book are 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 dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & LINED BY ROBERT MACFARLANE - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Usado- bueno.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Stanley Donwood (illustrator). Limited Edition. Excellent condition copy of the misprinted Quive-Smith limited edition of "Ness" by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Stanley Donwood. This was to be a limited edition of 525 copies, however the first set mailed out had pages bound in the wrong order, making it more of a perplexing read than it is even in its right order. Replacements were issued, bound in the correct order. I have taken the liberty to use coloured post-it tabs which will, if you follow the instructions on each tab as you reach it, take you through the book in the correct page order. This was quite some work, as the pages are not numbered. In summary, this book is scarce. Who knows how scarce, because who knows how many of these misprinted copies were kept? Not me. But there are a maximum of 525 of them. I have decided that I do not need a second, misprinted copy of this beautiful book - and beautiful it is indeed, the paper, the illustrations, the binding, the dust-cover, the writing is all utterly magnificent. It equally seems a huge waste for it not be enjoyed properly as it should be - or perhaps almost as it should be. Perhaps, indeed, it has found a form that allows it to be enjoyed as a strange journey in itself through the mis-placed pages, echoing in an unexpected and unintended way, the strange as the journey that the text itself describes? If the copies of this limited edition were individually numbered, then I haven't yet found where the numbering was placed. I suspect they were not. However if you look it up you can find the details online. Do take a look in all the usual places for a copy of this Quive-Smith edition (NOT the 2019 Faber trade edition) - even the misprinted ones. They do not tend to pop up . their owners, just like me, are reluctant to let go of them. Even as I write this, my resolve to let go of this copy is weakening! However, let it go I will. As this copy came effectively free, I will not profit from its sale - the proceeds will be donated half to the British Heart Foundation in memory of my beautiful wife, who was shockingly taken from us two years ago at 47, and half will be donated to the Migrant Offshore Aid Station - the beneficiary of the proceeds from Robert Macfarlane's "The Gifts of Reading" mini booklet, which she and I both loved (and a cause that we also both thoroughly approved of) - and I will also include a copy of this mini-booklet in your package.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. First printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Dust Jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

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.