Ali Smith – SEASONAL QUARTET [AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER] – First Editions 2016-20
£375.00
First UK editions, first printings of Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith, published by Hamish Hamilton, London: Autumn published 2016, Winter published 2017, Spring published 2019 and Summer published 2020. Autumn and Winter in fine condition with fine condition wrap-around bands. Spring in near fine condition with damp-stain to head of spine and upper corner of front board, Summer in similarly near fine condition with bumping to upper edge of front board, both with fine wrap-around bands, boards bound in multi-coloured cloth with metallic, white, and black lettering and all copies free from internal inscriptions.
Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith is an ambitious four-novel cycle—Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer—written and published rapidly between 2016 and 2020. Responding to Brexit, migration, climate anxiety and pandemic-era disruption, the books blend political urgency with lyrical playfulness. Smith experiments with time, voice and form, weaving art, memory and friendship through Britain’s changing seasons to show how connection, hope and imagination persist amid fracture. Humour, tenderness and formal daring anchor its vision of ethical attention today globally.
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First UK editions, first printings of Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith, published by Hamish Hamilton, London: Autumn published 2016, Winter published 2017, Spring published 2019 and Summer published 2020. Autumn and Winter in fine condition with fine condition wrap-around bands. Spring in near fine condition with damp-stain to head of spine and upper corner of front board, Summer in similarly near fine condition with bumping to upper edge of front board, both with fine wrap-around bands, boards bound in multi-coloured cloth with metallic, white, and black lettering and all copies free from internal inscriptions.
Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith is an ambitious four-novel cycle—Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer—written and published rapidly between 2016 and 2020. Responding to Brexit, migration, climate anxiety and pandemic-era disruption, the books blend political urgency with lyrical playfulness. Smith experiments with time, voice and form, weaving art, memory and friendship through Britain’s changing seasons to show how connection, hope and imagination persist amid fracture. Humour, tenderness and formal daring anchor its vision of ethical attention today globally.
