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.