THE COMPLETE KANO JIU-JITSU BY H. IRVING HANCOCK & KATSUKUMA HIGASHI 1905 FIRST EDITION

[HANCOCK, H. IRVING; HIGASHI, KATSUKUMA]. The Complete Kano Jiu-Jitsu (Jiudo). The Official Jiu-Jitsu of the Japanese Government With the Additions by Hoshino and Tsutsumi, and Chapters on the Serious and Fatal Blows and on Kuatsu the Japanese Science of the Restoration of Life. Illustrated by over Five Hundred Plates from Life and Four Charts. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1905.

First edition, first print; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (22.5cm x 15cm x 4cm); pp. xv, 526, [6] advertisements; English text; bound in publisher's original pictorial covers; initial and terminal blanks present; portrait frontispiece of the authors with tissue-guard; title-page printed in red and black; illustrated by over Five Hundred Plates from Life and Four Charts. Condition: FINE. A wonderful tight and clean copy, previous owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper. A scarce title - rarely found in such bright condition.