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Fencing: Techniques of Foil, Epee and Sabre
by Pitman, Brian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 1852231521
- ISBN 13
- 9781852231521
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Later Impression.* Date of Publication: 2007 (1988).* Publisher: The Crowood Press.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper with blue ground and white titles. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 134 pp. text. x pp. appendices. glossary & index at rear.* Description: This guide to fencing includes over 100 action photographs, demonstration sequences, and line drawings to help the reader put its advice into practice. It introduces the weapons and clarifies the rules governing them, explains the basics of the grip and the on-guard position, covers the strokes used in attack and defense, and explores tactics in depth.* A FINE copy with minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5464
- Title
- Fencing: Techniques of Foil, Epee and Sabre
- Author
- Pitman, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 2007
- ISBN 10
- 1852231521
- ISBN 13
- 9781852231521
- Publisher
- The Crowood Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Marlborough UK 144
- This edition first published
- March 1, 1989
- Size
- 19.3 x 1.7 x 25.1 cm
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