📚 Swordplay

Books with swordplay on their catalogue record, first published between 1850 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject swordplay in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 417 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Gorin no sho	Miyamoto Musashi	1963	237
	Old sword-play	Alfred Hutton	1892	14
	Zen in the art of archery	Eugen Herrigel	1953	8
	Italian Rapier Combat	Jared Kirby	2004	7
	Swords and swordsmen	Mike Loades	2010	6
	Giving up the gun	Noel Perrin	1979	4
	Dynamic power of karate	Hirokazu Kanazawa	1986	4
	Sword fighting	Keith Ducklin	2001	4
	Art of Sword Combat	Joachim Meyer	2016	4
	Qing ping jian	Lianke Mi	1981	3
	Northern Shaolin sword =	Yang, Jwing-Ming	1985	3
	Shinkage-Ryu Sword Techniques	Tadashige Watanabe	1993	3
	The art of Japanese swordsmanship	Nicklaus Suino	1994	3
	Persimmon wind	Dave Lowry	1998	3
	By the sword	Richard Cohen	2002	3
	Chinese Swordsmanship	Scott M. Rodell	2003	3
	The Art of Combat	Joachim Meyer	2006	3
	Strategy in Japanese Swordsmanship	Nicklaus Suino	2007	3
	Mastering the samurai sword	Cary Nemeroff	2008	3
	Soul of the Samurai	Thomas Cleary	2011	3
	Sword of Zen	Peter Haskel	2012	3
	The sword exercise	Henry C. Wayne	1850	2
	Katsu Kaishū no genten	Yasushi Namiki	1974	2
	Tu jie tai ji shi san jian =	Li, Zhen.	1980	2
	The martial artist's book of five rings	Steve Kaufman	1994	2
	The encyclopedia of the sword	Nick Evangelista	1995	2
	Kendo	Hiroshi Ozawa	1997	2
	Personal growth through martial arts	Minoru Kiyota	1997	2
	Japanese sword drawing	Don Zier	2000	2
	Saijutsu	Katsumi Murakami	2000	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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