The Judoka

New York: Knopf; Random House, 1973. First edition (stated). Sextodecimo in off white cloth in white DJ with color illus. on cover; 221 pp., 17 cm. Very good(+) copy in Good(+) to Very good(-), unclipped dust jacket protected in mylar; DJ is edgeworn with a small open tear to the middle of the top edge of the DJ; some open chips to spine ends and open corners of DJ; light soil from handling and age as well; o/w dust jacket is in one piece; board are lightly foxed along the bottom edge; very light foxing to the foreedge of a few pages; though very tightly and solidly bound, binding is slightly leaning (might be how it was issued it's so slight); some soil to cloth from handling, but they are still bright and clean mostly; pages are clean and bright and free of marks and creases; a gently loved copy with some well-loved spots. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394482980; 9780394482989

In English. "The Judoka is a man-an American-living on a beach. He works only when he must. He eats only what he is able to gather on his own. He lives a life of meditation, of introspection, of deeply spiritual values. He is wedded to the world around him, and he lives in peach with it. The Judoka lives the way of Judo- his life embodies a philosophy of peach grown out of the precepts of a classic martial art. In this book, W. D. Norwod, Jr. tells the story of this man- and explains the simple yet ennobling philosophy that nourishes his life." - DJ flap