John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, edited by Sydney H. Pardon, London: 1897, 8°, 34th edition, photographic plate of K. S. Ranjitsinhji and four other "Cricketers of the Year" (tissue guard spotted and with pin-sized hole), ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S HARDBACK CLOTH, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine (lightly rubbed on spine and corners, front lower corner bumped), yellow wrappers used as endpapers.