Tuttle Publishing 2005 Hardcover Good Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

ISBN10: 0804836809, ISBN13: 9780804836807, [publisher: Tuttle Publishing] Hardcover Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Stated first edition, complete number line. Black cover with silver print on the spine, encased in a bright dust jacket showing very little wear. Includes some historical information. Filled with illustrations in color or black and white. The pages are unmarked, clean and tight. Makes one wonder if the Japanese Museum has a display of British swords? This is a rather rare book. Date: 2005. Tuttle Publishing ISBN 0804836809 9780804836807 [US]

ISBN10: 0804836809, ISBN13: 9780804836807, [publisher: Tuttle Publishing] Hardcover First Edition Blk paper over boards with silver; one inch bump on top front edge; seems unread; DJ is not; No marks or writing,; clean tight binding; 160 pages Very Good- spine lettering clipped and has minor edge bump at top front edge clean tight binding;
[Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0804836809, ISBN13: 9780804836807, [publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., Rutland, VT] Hardcover Book & dust jacket are in AS NEW condition - still in sealed plastic wrap.
[Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0804836809 9780804836807 [US]

North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle, Date: 2005. 1st ed., first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in fine(-) to near fine(++) very gently edge-worn jacket. Please see photos./near fine. Folio in red and black pictorial jacket; 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm; bibliographical references (page 159). A superb production. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, September 2004 to March 2005. "In no other culture has the sword been developed to such a level of technological excellence and attained such a position of spiritual importance as in Japan. As a cutting weapon, the fully developed curved sword of the samurai is extremely effective. Complex traditional methods of forging, conducted according to the ancient precepts of reverence and cleanliness of the Shinto religion, impart these special qualities, producing countless varying hues and patterns in the crystalline structures of the steel. The Japanese sword has been appreciated as an art object since its perfection some time during the tenth century AD. Fine swords have been more highly prized than lands or riches, those of superior quality being handed down from generation to generation. Well-documented swords, whose blades are signed by their makers, survive from nearly a thousand years ago, making the study of the sword a guide to the flow of Japanese history." "This book catalogues over 160 swords and mountings dating back as far as the fourteenth century, arranged chronologically by sch ...