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OnlyAnEgg
12-15-2005, 12:50 PM
I believe I got lucky yesterday. While in Columbus, my wife pointed out a little bookshop lodged in an old church. Loving books, I stopped there and lingered for a bit.

Upstairs, in one of the used book areas, I found several tomes involving karate. I selected one to purchase. Now, I selected it for three reasons:

1) It had a linen cover

2) It was marked $1.95 (US)

3) I recognized the name, Nishiyama

I looked at it closer when I got home and checked it on the web. It is, indeed, Karate by Hidetaka Nishiyama Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0685220028/qid=1134668630/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-2370887-1897415?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). Moreover, it's marked 'First Edition, Fourteenth Printing' inside the first page.

Lucky, lucky me :)

I also bought The Essential Tao. I lost my other copy.
Navarre
12-15-2005, 12:52 PM
Wow, sounds like quite a find. Good for you!

(Makes me wish I could read.)
arnisador
12-15-2005, 12:56 PM
Good deal! I love getting old books.
OnlyAnEgg
12-15-2005, 01:36 PM
Good deal! I love getting old books.

I would've bought it for the cover alone. Now, I see it's listing for $49.95 on amazon...I'm even more tickled.
bignick
12-15-2005, 01:47 PM
Mmmmm...old book smell...hell, new book smell...books are great...
mrhnau
12-15-2005, 01:47 PM
You've got me interested in going to some of my old haunts and scouring the shelves :)
Navarre
12-15-2005, 02:03 PM
I have a book that tells me about "The Places You Will Go". It has an odd sort of rhyming canter but is apparently written as a powerful motivational tool.

The illustrations haven't been very useful but it has good self-defense advise. For instance, it cautions me to "not go down any not-so-good street".

Is this a good reference source for training?
OnlyAnEgg
12-15-2005, 02:15 PM
I have a book that tells me about "The Places You Will Go". It has an odd sort of rhyming canter but is apparently written as a powerful motivational tool.

The illustrations haven't been very useful but it has good self-defense advise. For instance, it cautions me to "not go down any not-so-good street".

Is this a good reference source for training?

I have long said, 'I will practice in a box/I will practice with a fox/I will practice here or there/I will practice anywhere'.
OnlyAnEgg
12-15-2005, 02:29 PM
You've got me interested in going to some of my old haunts and scouring the shelves :)

It's going to be a new passtime for me, as well.