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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Overlook Martial Arts Reader, Vol. 2. Edited by John Donohue. Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 2004. First edition, first printing (number line 10-1). 8vo hardcover, 352 pp. Brown cloth, black spine, silver titles. Book: Fine, tight, square, crisp; small prior-owner note on front endpaper (Baltimore Zen Center), else clean and unmarked. Jacket: Near Fine, unclipped ($27.95 / $40.00 CAN), just a touch of edgewear. A superb anthology of classic and modern martial-arts writings with Donohue's introductions, featuring Laozi, Confucius, Xunzi; Musashi (Five Rings), Yagyū Munenori, Tesshu; Kano Jigorō (Judo), Funakoshi Gichin (Karatedo), Ueshiba Morihei (Aikido); plus essays by Donn F. Draeger, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Salzman, John Stevens, Dave Lowry, James Grady, and others. Jacket design by Yellowstone Ltd.; front image after a self-portrait of Miyamoto Musashi. John Donohue is an American anthropologist and noted scholar of Asian martial arts. He holds black belts in karate/karatedo, has served as associate editor of the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, and is the author of both scholarship and fiction (Sensei). His selections and notes frame the classic and modern texts gathered here with clarity and authority. Yellowstone Ltd.; front jacket illustration: self-portrait of Miyamoto Musashi (illustrator).…

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