There is a Season.

New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1966. First Edition, stated. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), lavender endpapers, 191 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Seven decisive days in the life of a young clergyman are powerfully and dramatically chronicled in Faith Baldwin’s story of an intelligent young man torn between the ministry and medicine. Assistant Pastor in a Protestant church, Ira Stevens doubts his calling to the ministry; as his life unfolds pleasantly enough in a small New England town, he is plagued by the loneliness of indecision and by an increasing sense of isolation -- from his work and from his own desires. He wonders if he should return to the medical training he once found so rewarding. In a week filled with introspection, bewilderment, and intense activity, Ira seeks an answer, his objectivity confused by his deep, troublesome involvement with one woman, and by his affection for another. He must, of course, tend to his parishioners as usual, among them, Mrs. Armstrong, who flaunts a menacing grip on the parish, and Ella Downing, whose lonely existence masks a tragic secret. As Ira touches extremes of joy, misery, tenderness, and even violence in these lives, he also confronts -- and accepts -- surprising elements in his own nature. At the end of seven days, he has made a final decision.