Wilfrid Sheed — The Critic
London , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Wilfrid Sheed's compelling and controversial novel The Critic. This is a scarce first edition copy of Wilfrid Sheed's sixth book. The novel follows the career of one critic with a column in a national periodical and reveals the critical process and the impact of a lifetime of criticism.A controversial yet powerful novel. Wilfrid Sheed was a novelist and essayist. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light fading to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. The spine is faded and there is some bumping to the spine and extremities Near Fine . Ill.: none. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.