AFTER I WAS SIXTY – A Chapter of Autobiography

Thomas Nelson & Sons, (Don Mills) Toronto, 1975, believe First Canadian Edition.  ISBN 0-176-05008-6.  Hard cover, 224 pages including Appendix and Index.  Good to very good condition; blue boards with silver lettering on spine; light edge and shelf wear; lower corners and spine ends lightly bumped; crease on spine with a very slight lean.  Red top stain; binding sound.  Dust jacket shows some edge wear, no tears; some light rubs, scratches and impressions; light creases and age-toning.  Interior pages clean and unmarked; mustard end papers; illustrated with black & white photos.  INSCRIBED by Lord Thomson to prior owner "with best regards Thomson of Fleet".  ‘When he first came to Scotland twenty years ago no one had ever heard of Roy Thomson.  Today he owns more newspapers than anyone else in the world.  Though endlessly discussed, dissected, pilloried and profiled, and although already the subject of a full-scale biography which took the story to 1965, Roy Thomson has never told his own version of this extraordinary metamorphosis.  Now he does so with his usual candour.’ (from front flap)  (Roy Herbert Thomson - June 5, 1894 to August 4, 1976).