The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane - 2020

New York: House of Anansi Press, 2020. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. First American Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris on the publisher's bound-in page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Full-page color illustrations throughout by Jackie Morris, with moth and butterfly pictorial endpapers, an illustrated ex libris page, and a sewn-in ribbon bookmark. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

The Lost Spells reconnects us with what is often lost from sight and care and evokes the wonder of everyday nature. MacFarlane's spell-poems and Jackie Morris's watercolor illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, and charms of protection.

Each "spell" conjures an animal, bird, tree, or flower — from barn owl to red fox, grey seal to silver birch, jay to jackdaw — with which we share our lives and landscapes. Moving, joyful and funny, The Lost Spells above all celebrates a sense of wonder, bearing witness to nature's power to amaze, console, and bring joy.