WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1918 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1918. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. (P. 191 a little soiled.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners slightly bumped, bookplate covering front advertisment). Provenance : H.D. Swan (ink signature on front free endpaper). HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-fifth edition. This edition continued the roll of deaths in the war. It is said of Rear Admiral the Hon. H.L.A. Hood that he ‘was a very keen if not very distinguished cricketer. When in command of a battleship he always endeavoured to secure good cricketers as the officers of his ward and gun-rooms .’ A BRIGHT, UNBLEMISHED EXAMPLE.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1918 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1918. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. (P. 191 a little soiled.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners slightly bumped, bookplate covering front advertisment). Provenance : H.D. Swan (ink signature on front free endpaper). HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-fifth edition. This edition continued the roll of deaths in the war. It is said of Rear Admiral the Hon. H.L.A. Hood that he ‘was a very keen if not very distinguished cricketer. When in command of a battleship he always endeavoured to secure good cricketers as the officers of his ward and gun-rooms .’ A BRIGHT, UNBLEMISHED EXAMPLE.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1918 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1918. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. (P. 191 a little soiled.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners slightly bumped, bookplate covering front advertisment). Provenance : H.D. Swan (ink signature on front free endpaper). HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-fifth edition. This edition continued the roll of deaths in the war. It is said of Rear Admiral the Hon. H.L.A. Hood that he ‘was a very keen if not very distinguished cricketer. When in command of a battleship he always endeavoured to secure good cricketers as the officers of his ward and gun-rooms .’ A BRIGHT, UNBLEMISHED EXAMPLE.
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1918 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1918. 8° (162 x 97mm). Half tone plate. (P. 191 a little soiled.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners slightly bumped, bookplate covering front advertisment). Provenance : H.D. Swan (ink signature on front free endpaper). HARDBACK COPY of the fifty-fifth edition. This edition continued the roll of deaths in the war. It is said of Rear Admiral the Hon. H.L.A. Hood that he ‘was a very keen if not very distinguished cricketer. When in command of a battleship he always endeavoured to secure good cricketers as the officers of his ward and gun-rooms .’ A BRIGHT, UNBLEMISHED EXAMPLE.
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