So Was Your Old Man. A Commentary on Joys, Jobs, and Jackasses.

Boston: Branden Press, (1976). Signed & inscribed by author on dedication page. Octavo, red leatherette (hardcover), 351 pp. Fine, in a Good dust jacket with light soiling and two hairline tairs. From jacket: In an age where anyone over sixty is thought to be ‘over the hill,’ Hillary G. Bailey takes a hard look at history to discover that neither young folks nor old have ever been immune to human frailty: for all its accomplishments, humankind is still very much a babe in the woods. Bailey -- who has traveled the world with camera in had, observing the monuments and wreckages of human endeavor -- blends compassion with satire in this richly illustrated, highly quotable dissertation...