Search Results: the pleasures of age musings by morley robert

Mercury House Inc, San Francisco, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by author. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. 1/4 blue coloured cloth covered back strip with silver coloured titles. 3/4 blue coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and white and orange coloured titles to the back strip. As the author says from the front fold over panel blurb "To enjoy old age one must never be impatient with fingers grown clumsy or bladder unreliable. To grow old gracefully is not always easy; to grow old ungratefully is always unforgivable." Softening to the back strip edges with rubbing of the top book corners and lower book edges. Offset tanning to the end pages. Creasing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the panels. Sunning of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 159, [1]… Read More