WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (bookplate covering text of advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance : H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper). SUPERLATIVE HARDBACK COPY of the 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'. The binding and endpapers of this copy are as new.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (bookplate covering text of advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance : H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper). SUPERLATIVE HARDBACK COPY of the 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'. The binding and endpapers of this copy are as new.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (bookplate covering text of advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance : H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper). SUPERLATIVE HARDBACK COPY of the 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'. The binding and endpapers of this copy are as new.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1917 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1917. 8° (162 x 97mm). Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (bookplate covering text of advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance : H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper). SUPERLATIVE HARDBACK COPY of the 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'. The binding and endpapers of this copy are as new.
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