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Martial Arts

Martial arts is an ancient tradition in many cultures, so there are many rare and antique books dedicated to the study of martial arts. Biblio is proud to feature several of those rare martial arts books below in the Biblio Rare Book Room. The rare and antique martial arts books range in topics from the history of Jiu-Jitsu to early Japanese sword history. If you are passionate about martial arts, be sure to check out the rare martial arts books section of the Biblio Rare Book Room.

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Fundamental Kendo: Compiled by All Japan Kendo Federation

Fundamental Kendo: Compiled by All Japan Kendo Federation

by Various

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Second Edition
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Japan Publications, 1974. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage, other than spine which is faded by sun exposure. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Martial Arts; ISBN: 0870402269. ISBN/EAN: 9780870402265. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 6935. . 9780870402265
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Ultimate Jujutsu: Principles & Practices

Ultimate Jujutsu: Principles & Practices

by Maberry, Shihan Jonathan

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New
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First Edition
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Paperback
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Doyelstown, Pennsylvania: Strider Nolan Publishing. New. 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover. 285 pages: 8 x 9 in.: 1.8: Remainder: KB#006611: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Book has neat black mark on bottom edge of page block (New Remainder Book) and has slight shelf wear at corners. "Jujutsu is an ancient battle-effective fighting art used for centuries by the Samurai and just as effective on the dangerous streets of 21st Century America. This book presents a penetrating look at the origins of this fighting art, delving into the Combat Philosophies and presenting the rarest Jujutsu combat techniques ever published in English! Subjects included in this book: The History and Development of Jujutsu * The Technical Development of the Art * Rare and Never Before Shown Jujutsu Skills * Senjutsu: The Combat Philosophies of Jujutsu * Hadaka Korosu (Art of the Naked Kill) : Use of Commonplace Objects as Weapons * Extensive Reference Material * Japanese Martial Arts Glossary * Overview of Martial… Read More
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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (Original 63mm film fragments from the 1897 film)
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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (Original 63mm film fragments from the 1897 film)

by Enoch J. Rector (director); James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons (subjects)

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N.p.: Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes, the film is the first feature length release anywhere, and, with an aspect ratio of 1.65:1, the first widescreen film ever produced. Though fragments such as this survive, the film in its entirety is considered lost. A five frame fragment is held the National Media Museum in the UK, and approximately 19 minutes are available for viewing, but OCLC locates no fragments in institutions. The heavy weight title bout took place on March 17, 1897 in Carson City, Nevada, which legalized boxing specifically to host this fight, beginning the long and storied relationship between the Silver State and the sweet science. Boxing was already a popular… Read More
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The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion. Signed Copy
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The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion. Signed Copy

by CORBETT, James J., with Foreword by Robert Gordon Anderson.

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New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, and dated in ink by Corbett on the recto of the frontis. 8vo, xiv & 329 pp. plus 16 plates. Publishers gilt-lettered green cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Page 329 roughly opened causing small losses in the margin (text unaffected), otherwise fine in moderately edge worn dust Jacket (including short tears and small loses), lightly browned at the spine and folds, otherwise very good."We cannot help but feel that The Roar of the Crowd will be read as long as the world loves a clean, honest, and courageous fighter, both within the ropes and in those harder battles of life outside the ring." (Excerpted from the dust jacket).
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Self Defense; Professional & Amateur Boxing, June-July, 1930
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Self Defense; Professional & Amateur Boxing, June-July, 1930

by Editor: Joe Burten; Assoc. Editors: Jay J. Thomas, James J. Corbett, and Jack O'Brien

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Used - Near Fine
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First Printing
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New York: Periodical Publishing Company, 1930. RARE, OCLC locates one copy, at University of Notre Dame Library. Near Fine, faint soiling rear wrapper. 48 pages with numerous black and white photographs. . First Printing. Magazine. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Ned Donnelly's art of boxing : a manual of sparring and self defense : illustrated with forty...
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Ned Donnelly's art of boxing : a manual of sparring and self defense : illustrated with forty engravings showing the various blows, stops and guards, and explaining all the modern methods of attack and defense

by DONNELLY, Ned

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1880 Art of BOXING Combat Sports Illustrated Pugilism Self-Defense Ned Donnelly
Ned Donnelly's 'Art of Boxing' is a late 19th-century instructional and training manual on boxing and combat sports. This book includes illustrated sketches depicting various moves, positions, and punches.

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DONNELLY, Ned
Ned Donnelly's art of boxing : a manual of sparring and self defense : illustrated with forty engravings showing the various blows, stops and guards, and explaining all the modern methods of attack and defense
New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [1880].

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viii, 127, [1]
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Illustrated throughout
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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On Boxing
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On Boxing

by Oates, Joyce Carol

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Used - Fine, as Issued
Edition
Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition
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Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana
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Garden City: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987. #191 of 250 copies specially bound and boxed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Fine in Fine slipcase. Photographs by Joe Ranard. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour
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A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour: as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II.

by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick

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Used - Very Good+
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1st
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Tokyo, Tokyo
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Beautiful copy of the rare first edition of this standard work on medieval European armour. With 80 fine illustrations drawn and engraved by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (some engraved by Richard Bridgens and William Maddocks). Complete with three frontispieces with calligraphic titles and engraved vignettes drawn by Richard Bridgens and engraved by Charles Heath, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates drawn by Meyrick and engraved by himself or William Maddocks, 10 engraved plates drawn by Meyrick and etched by Richard Bridgens, and 27 illuminated chapter initials.Volume I: 22 hand-coloured plates (VIII to XXX) & 8 b/w etchings (I to VII, XXVI), pp. lxxvii, 206Volume II: 35 hand-coloured plates (XXXI to LVI), 1 b/w engraving (XLIV), pp. 297 Volume III: 13 hand-coloured plates (LVII to LXXIX) & 1 b/w (LXXX) , pp.147, unpaginated 132-page glossaryThe plates are essentially a catalogue of the collection of ancient armour collected by Samuel and his son Llewelyn, with a few items drawn from illuminated manuscripts… Read More
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L'Art Militaire Francois
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L'Art Militaire Francois: Pour l'Infanterie

by Pierre Giffart

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Ist
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Tokyo, Tokyo
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Rare first edition of this 17th century French military exercise book covering mostly musket drills, but also pike, sword and grenade. L'art militaire françois, pour l'infanterie. Contenant l'exercise et le maniement des armes, tant des officiers que de soldats, réprésenté par des figures en taille-douce dessinées d'après nature.
Frontispiece, iv, 174 (of 178), and 83 (of 85) engraved copperplates, each captioned within the plate. Missing title page, a page of the "epistre," pages 87-90 with plates XLIV and XLV.
Pierre Giffart (1637-1723), was a gifted engraver who was appointed engraver to the king in the 1680s. He is both artist, engraver and publisher.Incomplete disbound copy, but with 83 fine copperplate engravings with strong impressions, slight toning and dust to edges, some repairs to paper.
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The School of Fencing
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The School of Fencing: with A General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art

by Domenico Angelo

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1st octavo
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Tokyo, Tokyo
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Good copy of the first English octavo edition with plates by Thomas Rowlandson of this classic fencing manual.Complete with 47 engraved plates of classic fencing positions on 44 sheets. The original 1787 edition, the first to include plates redrawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson. All plates dated 1783.The first octavo edition of Domenico Angelo's renowned guide to swordsmanship, first published in folio with illustrations by James Gwin in 1763. Edited by Domenico's son and fencing master Henry Charles William Angelo who "endeavoured to render it of more general use, by reducing it both in size and price." The original plates and text were featured in the Escrime (Fencing) section of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie and praised with "Had we known of any work more perfect in its kind, we should have made use of it."Angelo's school in Carlisle House, Soho, London was popular with English royalty and celebrities including Lord Byron, artists Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and George Stubbs, actor… Read More
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Shinkage-Ryu Sword Techniques. Vol. 1

Shinkage-Ryu Sword Techniques. Vol. 1

by Watanabe, Tadashige

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Tokyo: Sugawara Martial Arts Institute [0-87040-887-9] 1993, 1st printing. (Trade paperback) 140pp. Near fine. Photographs. Minor wear to the corners and minor rubbing to the spine. (Martial Arts, Martial Arts, Sinkage-Ryu, Sword Fighting).
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Taiji Push Hands: The Secret of Qi in Taiji Quran (English and Chinese)
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Taiji Push Hands: The Secret of Qi in Taiji Quran (English and Chinese)

by Ping-Siang Tao

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Blue Mountain Feng Shui Instit, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Master Ping-Siang Tao's Taiji Push Hands how-to. Bound in flexible tan vellum with gold page ribbon. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photos. Review excerpt: "The famous masters of earlier generations were able to throw attackers away as soon as they contacted them. People thought that there was magic power in their hands. Master Ping Siang Tao, renowened for his mastery of the subtleties of Push Hands training, wrote this book to record the insights he gained through a lifetime of practice and teaching. Without any mystification, he sets out the methods and goals of Push Hands practice in terms of basic principles of physics: momentum, inertia, and leverage. At the same time, he shows how these principles reinforce the traditional account of Chinese natural philosophy in terms of Yin and Yang, and softness overcoming hardness. What is practiced in Push Hands? What makes Push Hands… Read More
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph

by Lawrence, T.E.

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Used - Good
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First American Edition
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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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Judo Kyosho (Judo Textbook)
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Judo Kyosho (Judo Textbook)

by Ito, Kazuo

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Used - Very Good
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1st
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Hardcover
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Tokyo: Shin Senshaban, 1956. First edition. Hard cover in publisher's slipcase. Text in Japanese. Published Tokyo: Shin Senshaban, 1956, first printing with errata slip laid in. 8vo., 6 1/4" x 8 1/2", 158pp., illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Blue cloth with gilt cover and spine titles. Wear at the spine ends, tips rubbed, light soil spotting to covers, spine titles faded but legible, mild foxing along fore-edges, else very good in very good slipcase. Kazuo Ito (Kodokan 9th Dan) was a personal student of Kyuzo Mifune, and dedicated his life to promoting Judo and traditional Japanese culture. His work significantly helped to restore Judo to the Japanese national education curriculum following WWII. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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The Girondin
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The Girondin

by Hilaire Belloc

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Used - Very Good
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First Edition
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Hardcover
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Hilaire Belloc The Girondin Thomas Nelson and Sons, London. FRENCH REVOLUTION. Copyright page states: First Published 1911. VG/ No DJ included. Used. Green boards with gold gilt titling on spine. Titles are bright but some chipping off of gilt. 372 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 ½.
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