WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1919. London: John Wisden and Co., 1919. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (two bumps to fore-edge of front cover, bookplate covering front advertisement, rear free endpaper creased at corner). Provenance: H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper).
A WELL-PRESERVED HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-sixth edition. Cricket was once again 'something like its old self' but 'the roll of honour' was 'again a terribly long list'. The price for ordinary copies had gone up to 2/- in 1918, and now shot up to 2/6d. Hardback copies priced at 3/4d in 1918 now reached 4/4d.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1919. London: John Wisden and Co., 1919. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (two bumps to fore-edge of front cover, bookplate covering front advertisement, rear free endpaper creased at corner). Provenance: H.D. Swan (pencil signature on front free endpaper).
A WELL-PRESERVED HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-sixth edition. Cricket was once again 'something like its old self' but 'the roll of honour' was 'again a terribly long list'. The price for ordinary copies had gone up to 2/- in 1918, and now shot up to 2/6d. Hardback copies priced at 3/4d in 1918 now reached 4/4d.
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