Author: NADI, ALDO & LANCE C. LOBO & WILLIAM M. GAUGLER
Title: The Living Sword a Fencer's Autobiography
Description: Sunrise, FL: Laureate Press, 1995. Paperback. ISBN: 1884528201. B&W Photographs; 8.50 X 5.40 X 0.90 inches; 412 pages; Soft cover has rubbing/scuffing, light shelf wear, bumping. White spine with black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Ilustrated with b/w photographs. Nadi, born in Italy [1899--1965, died in Los Angeles] was an Italian fencing champion, winning 3 team golds and 1 silver individual medal in the Antwerp Olympic Games. He later came to the USA, where he taught fencing, as well as a technical advisor, sometime actor, for Hollywood movies. Afterword; 2 appendices; index.. Very Good .

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