This paperback is Brian Aldiss's novel 'HELLICONIA SPRING' published by Granada Books in the UK in 1983.  Book is in reasonable condition. 555 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth's observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent novels of scientific romance.