H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald, Jonathan Cape, 2014, Fine First Edition First Impression Helen MacDonald had yearned to be a falconer as a young girl. Years later when her father died suddenly she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, driven on by the memories of reading T.H.White's "The Goshawk" and his description of the struggle to train the goshawk as a spiritual contest. The book was adapted for film in 2025 with Claire Foy in the title role. H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson and Costa Book of the Year prizes. The judges were particularly attracted to the clever interplay of themes - the spiritual journey and outpouring of grief, the biographical referencing to T.H.White and the simple depiction of nature at its most beautiful. The book is in fine condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is a very slight indentation to the bottom edge of the front board. The end papers and pages are free from marks, tears and inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in near fine condition with slight nibbling to the bottom edge of the back cover. As an unproven writer the first print run was rather small and therefore first impressions of the first edition are exceedingly rare. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.