Now We Are Sixty by Matthew, Christopher - 1999

John Murray, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: David Eccles. introduction by author. Illustrated endpapers and interior decorations have all been drawn by David Eccles. Orange coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by David Eccles, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The author at age 6 loved the poems of A. A. Milne. He is now 60, he taken up his pen again to rewrite some more of his favoured A. A. Milne poems to thumb his nose at ageing. As the rear panel poem goes: – " 'They're changing sex at Buckingham Palace!' Murgatroyd mutters with undisguised malice. 'Roger is marrying one of the guard – Bugger whose bearskin reeks of pomade, Called Alice." A hint of rubbing to the book corners. Some rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 111, [1]pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: David Eccles. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Humour. ISBN: 0719559790. ISBN/EAN: 9780719559792. Inventory No: 0286079. . 9780719559792