WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). (Light creasing to top corners.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners a little frayed, top corners bumped).
Fifty-fourth edition, described by the editor as 'rather a mournful volume', so long was the 'roll of honour' or war dead which F.S. Ashley-Cooper had compiled. Even apart from the war, writes Pardon in the preface, 'death has been very busy among cricketers'. GOOD HARDBACK COPY OF THIS SCARCE EDITION.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). (Light creasing to top corners.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners a little frayed, top corners bumped).
Fifty-fourth edition, described by the editor as 'rather a mournful volume', so long was the 'roll of honour' or war dead which F.S. Ashley-Cooper had compiled. Even apart from the war, writes Pardon in the preface, 'death has been very busy among cricketers'. GOOD HARDBACK COPY OF THIS SCARCE EDITION.
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