Wisden Cricketers' Almanack willing to pay for any given edition. Rarity arguably has the strongest influence on value as editions known to be very rare (e.g. those published in the periods when paper restrictions applied during both World Wars) are very much more expensive than comparable editions from the surrounding decades. Editions such as the 1916 containing the obituary and career details of W. G. Grace; 1934, detailing the 'Bodyline' series of 1932–33; 1949, the Australian 'Invincibles' tour of 1948; 1965, the first to have a yellow dust jacket: All are rare and expensive for specific reasons. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
A Child Is Born (book) that the book was so culturally influential as to have mediated and to some extent determined the way pregnant women understand their own pregnancies. Images from the book were sent into space aboard the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" space probes. The American Library Association regards it, alongside "Gray's Anatomy", as a core medical reference work for libraries. The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus "in utero". In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's "The First Nine Months Of Life" had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. The images played