Very Good.

Pakenham Gazette Pakenham, Victoria 1995 First Edition Dust Jacket biography -- Cricket 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Black Cloth Very Good 1-875-475-109 450 g; 192 pages, last page blank, text illustrated with 45 paintings and photographs, statistics section at the back of the book, bibliography, index. "So revered was Ryder in this community of battlers, that he became known as "the King of Collingwood" Or More Simply "the King". Ryder, the dominant cricketer from this suburb, endeared himself to the residents not only because he succeeded to the extent that he captained Australia but because he fulfilled their wish for a home-grown hero." From the opening chapter.