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The Complete Kano Jiu-Jitsu (Jiudo).
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red illustrated boards. Photogravure frontispiece with 505 half tone illustrtions from life & 4 charts of pressure points. A very good copy with edgewear to extremities. No tears, nicks or chips to cloth. A number of small marks to boards. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. Endpapers original & unsplit.
A first edition of an historical important martial arts manual - a seminal work. Marketed in 1905 as the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese Government & the definitive system of Professor Jigoru Kano (The founder of modern Judo). An invaluable book and an historic time capsule of how Eastern martial arts were first marketed for Western audience.
Item #103758
Price: £850.00