Wisden Cricketers' Almanack activity among cricket followers, and early editions command high prices. The first edition, only 112 pages long, sold for one shilling. Rare copies of the early editions can sell for thousands of pounds. Although devoting most of its pages to a survey of the contents of Wisden from 1864 to 2010, the last 44 pages of "The Wisden Collector's Guide" contains a significant amount of information of interest and practical use to the collector. The two main UK-based on-line resources for "Wisden" collectors are the Wisdens.org (www.wisden.guru) and "Wisden" Collectors Club websites (see External Links). Facilities offered by the former
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack facsimile offer was repeated in 2014 for those willing to subscribe to the "Almanack" by direct debit. This is not a true facsimile as the back cover does not reproduce the "List of Articles" of the original, but instead on the inside there is an advertisement for "Wisden" reprints from the Willows Publishing Company and on the back a celebration of 150 years of "Wisden". At the bottom of the back cover information is provided about the reprint: "This reprint of the first edition of "Wisden" was produced in 2013 for the publisher, John Wisden & Co, an imprint of