Stanford University Press, Date: 1997. 1. Hardcover. Good. Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with just minor edgewear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; Light pencil notations to about 35 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Dark red and tan dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1997, Stanford University Press; 436 pages; "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship," by Joan Piggott. 1997. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804728321 9780804728324 [US]

Stanford University Press 1997 Hardcover Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Dark red and tan dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1997, Stanford University Press; 436 pages; "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship, " by Joan Piggott.

ISBN10: 0804728321, ISBN13: 9780804728324, [publisher: Stanford University Press] Hardcover Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Dark red and tan dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1997, Stanford University Press; 436 pages; "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship," by Joan Piggott.
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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, Date: 1997. Very Good condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very light shelfwear). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. The book itself would be FINE but for margin notes in pencil and a little light pencil underlining. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Bright, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Illustrated with 9 maps and 16 figures. Glossary. List of chapter notes, Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an archeology of kingship that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy. The book then traces sovereignty and polity through a series of temporal cross sections, analogous to an archaeologist's trenches, to reveal artifacts from seven historical epochs, including an array of chieftains, kings, and sovereigns variously styled as Son of Heaven, Polestar Monarch, and Heavenly Sovereign. These sacral and increasingly courtly rulers (both men and women) first presided over confederate chieftainc ...

California: Stanford University Press. Date: 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0804728321 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 5 X 1.3 X 8 inches; 436 pages . 1997. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804728321 9780804728324 [US]