Seasons Difference by Frederick Buechner, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The author's uncommon second novel. About fine in black cloth boards in a near fine dw with mild wear and rubbing to the edges and spine folds, and the original $3.50 price intact. INSCRIBED in Greek on the front end paper to Joseph McCrindle, philanthropist and founder of the prestigious Transatlantic Review. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce second book; slight rubbing and wear to dust jacket; o/w NF/NF; signed bookplate by Frederick Buechner laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of The Seasons' Difference by Frederick Buechner, with an inscription to the Duchess of Buccleuch. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [12], 303pp, [1]. Full black cloth, title in silver on spine. Yellow topstain. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $3.50 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, with rubbing to corners. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For the Duchess of Buccleuch with a Merry Christmas and my love. Fred [1952]." In his memoir Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation (1983), Buechner recalls a stay with friends at the Drumlanrig Castle, during which he met the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. With nearly thirty years between the publication of The Seasons' Difference and his memoir, it is clear the pair made a lasting impression on Buechner. Signed.

First edition of Frederick Buechner's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, with a full page inscription by the author on the front free endpaper, "This was the most insincere of all of my books. Following hard on the heels of my most successful. I wrote a good deal of it in the small village of Great Milton, near Oxford, where I would get so cold that I would have to get into bed to write, and then I'd fall asleep instead. With all best wishes to Patrick, Christopher, Celia, and Greg Ross. -Frederick Buechner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph by Elliott Erwitt. As in A Long Day's Dying, Frederick Buechner's first brilliant novel, the plot of The Seasons' Difference is less important than the characters, the atmosphere, and the complexity of the writing. The story tells of the effects of one man's sudden conviction that he has had a supernatural visitation and his attempt to to make his close friends and their small children realize that vision with him a second time.