Search Results: Literary Criticism from Royal Books, Inc.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1974. First Canadian Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Bottom board edges briefly rubbed. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned on the extremities.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. A collection of essays. Fine and unread in red printed wrappers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. First Edition, one of 500 numbered copies (this being No. 217) SIGNED by the author. The second book in the Bech series. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, in an about Fine example of the publisher's slipcase. Faint splash on the center of the spine panel of the dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 1987. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Fine in wrappers.

Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.

Dorchester: Manifest Destiny, 1974. First Edition. First Edition. Two essays about Gore Vidal's 1968 novel "Myra Breckinridge," and an interview with Vidal conducted in March 1974. Slight wear at the front hinge, else Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.

London: William Heinemann, 1955. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all others. With a date stamp on the front wrapper reading "14 MAR 1956." Rare. About Very Good in wrappers, with dampstaining to the bottom half of the rear wrapper and correspondingly the bottom half of page 87 through page 269 (the final leaf). Pages, however, are all still separate and supple. Date stamp reading 14 MAR 1956 on the front wrapper.