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London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHITE: PERHAPS THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A WARM AND LENGTHY INSCRIPTION TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SYDNEY COCKERELL - CONNOISEUR, BIBLIOPHILE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. T.H. White is best known for his magnificent re-telling of the Arthurian saga in his Once and Future King tetralogy - The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind. His life - as described by his biographer Sylvia Warner Townsend, and more recently in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning memoir H is for Hawk - was a sad one. He was a heavy drinker, pathologically fearful, estranged from humanity, emotionally crippled by a turbulent upbringing, troubled by dark sado-masochistic fantasies, and isolated, in a homophobic era, by his (likely) homosexuality. As an adult, he attempted to exorcise his demons through…

The Goshawk is a book by T. H. White, a British author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. In this work, White describes his attempt to train a Northern Goshawk using traditional falconry techniques. The book is a reflective account of the struggles and successes he encountered, and it has been praised for its introspective and literary prose as well as its exploration of the relationship between man and nature.

The first edition of 'The Goshawk' published by Jonathan Cape in 1951 can be identified by its characteristic green cloth cover with gold lettering on the spine.