This Is Karate de Oyama, Masutatsu - 1965

LOS ANGELES, CA: SELF-PUB.. VG. PICTORIAL HARDCOVER. THIRD EDITION. 1970.

Japan Publications Trading Company, 1965-01-01. eighth printing 1970. Hardcover. Good/Good. 11x8x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Binding loose at page 216. Rear hinge loose. Text and images unmarked. Vintage bookstore label on rear pastedown. Price clipped dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases, small tears & sun fading in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.

Tokyo: Japan Publications, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Tight clean book with small name sticker to front endpaper; in dust jacket with several edgetears, tacked to the boards with bits of tape. ; 9 x 12"; 368 pages .

Japan Publications Trading Company, 1966. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is an oversized, thick hardcover book with 368 pages including lots of instructional photos. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. There is a small dedication written on the first end paper and very light soiling on the last end paper. The pages are otherwise clean with no tears. The copyright page states 1966 Fourth Printing. This is definitely Not a former library book. The DJ is orange with an illustration of a black splotch. The dust jacket is about 99% intact with a one-inch chip on the top of the spine and light chipping on the corners. I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Japan Publications Trading Co, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. reprint. the jacket is scuffed and chipped. ownership inscriptions. a little marked. all pages are intact and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

UsedGood. Considerable foxing and/or discoloration around edges. Shows minimal wear such as frayed or folded edges, minor rips and tears, and/or slightly worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages.

Tokyo, Japan: Japan Publications, Inc, 1974. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large Quarto, 12 in. x 8.5 in., pp. 368. Illustrated with blaack and white photographs. Black cloth boards with gilt title and red decoration to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Shallow dent to top of front board. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket, with a couple small cllosed tear at top of spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. "In this book, Masutatsu Oyama, a karate master standing at the very pinnacle of today's karate world, makes available to everyone the essence of his thirty years of karate study and training. Mr. Oyama poured his whole being into writing this book and has included a large number of special techniques. There are two thousand photographs in this massive work, which took four years to complete from planning to final production." (from rthe dustjacket).

Tokyo:: Japan Publications Trading Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. More than 2,000 black and white photographs by Akira Kotani. Translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. Eighth printing. Very good in a very good (two short closed edge tears and some light creasing at the base of the rear panel) dust jacket.; 368 pages .

CollectibleGood. Seventh printing, 1968 black cloth. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. Without dust wrapper. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Tokyo: Japan Publications. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. More than 2000 illustrations. Translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. Second, revised edition. Boards are very slightly warped, else near fine in an about fine dust jacket. .