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Smith, Ali.
Seasonal Quartet: Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer [and] Companion Piece [All SIGNED by the author].
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, [London];
Date of Publication: 2016
Stock Code: 15533
Five volumes. First editions, first impressions of ‘Winter’, ‘Spring’, ‘Summer’, and ‘Companion Piece’, ‘Autumn’ is a first edition second impression. Octavos, pp., [viii], 263, [1]; [viii], 321, [5]; [viii], 339, [1]; [viii], 384, [2]; [viii], 229, [1]. All in publisher’s original blue, yellow, ochre, grey, and purple cloth; titled to spines and upper board; coloured and pictorial end-papers. All in the original pictorial wraparound bands priced at £16.99. ‘Autumn’ with bookseller’s band to wraparound; all else with ‘Signed Copy’ sticker to the same. All signed by the author ‘Ali Smith’ to to title-page in ink. Minor scuffs to cloth; small bump to head of ‘Autumn’; a few spots of toning to head of textblocks. Internally clean. A very good or better set. A complete set of Ali Smith’s experimental quartet of interconnected novels set in contemporary Britain. The novels span the fallout following the Brexit campaign, the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the ongoing climate crisis. Contemporary reviews were glowing: ‘Reading the four books together is a deeply affecting experience, in which we understand the huge ambition that underlies them, the profound and compassionate intelligence that sits at their heart. Ali Smith has completed something truly remarkable in her seasonal quartet, a work that has risen to the challenges of the era...’. A near fine set, individually signed by the author. £575.00