The Art of the Sabre and the Épée
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1936). First American edition. Frontispiece portrait, black and white photographic illustrations, many line drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xviii, 170 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. A bit of light foxing to endpapers and preliminary leaves, Jacket has mild soil and a few chips to extremities, 1/2" closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel.
Barbasetti's excellent instruction on fencing, well-illustrated with line cuts by Ciro Barbasetti. While the noble art of swordsmanship cannot be learned entirely from a book, Barbasetti here lays out many theories and methods of greatest usefulness in practical fencing.
Item #1073
Price: $500