First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 43 halftone plates. 4to, one of 250 copies on handmade paper, signed Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar, this copy number 197. Quarter back cloth over green cloth boards, gilt, good only pictorial dustwrapper (foxed and soiled, with closed tears at head and tail of front joint) T.e.g., other edges untrimmed, internally bright and clean. xviii, 138pp. Edinburgh, William Blackwood ands Sons, 1931.
Maharaja Shri Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, was one of cricket’s greatest ever players, playing for Cambridge University, Sussex, and England. A trade edition was issued in the same year.
