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Published by Kodansha USA, 1987
ISBN 10: 087011798XISBN 13: 9780870117985
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!.
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Published by Kodansha USA, 1987
ISBN 10: 087011798XISBN 13: 9780870117985
Seller: Martin Nevers- used & rare books, Oxford, FL, U.S.A.
Association Member: FABA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gray binding with silver lettering on spine. First eight pages are in color. Numerous B/W photos and drawings throughut the book. Top edge of binding worn. Front and back covers heavily rubbed with some loss of color. Ffep is heavily stained. Dust Jacket has remains of sticker on front flap. Photos of book on request.
Published by Dietikon, Verlag Stocker-Schmid o. J.
ISBN 10: 3613306301ISBN 13: 9783613306301
Seller: Versandantiquariat Boller, Staufenberg, Germany
Book
Condition: Gut. 176 S. Mit s/w Abb. und mit einigen farb. Abb. Die Fußecken sind bestoßen. Der Rücken ist etwas leseschief. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 790 Gr.-8° Groß-Oktav, Hardcover/Pappeinband.
Published by Tuttle Publishing, 2012
ISBN 10: 4805312408ISBN 13: 9784805312407
Seller: Bellwetherbooks, McKeesport, PA, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover with Jacke. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.
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Published by Tokyo, New York u. London, Kodansha International, 1991
ISBN 10: 3931425010ISBN 13: 9783931425012
Seller: Antiquariat Dennis R. Plummer, Bingen am Rhein, Germany
Book
167 SS. mit vielen Abbildungen. Sauber und gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650 Gr.-8°, Original-Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.
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Published by Kodansha International, 2012
ISBN 10: 1568364318ISBN 13: 9781568364315
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new.
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Published by Kodansha International, 2013
ISBN 10: 1568365187ISBN 13: 9781568365183
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new.
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Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1987
ISBN 10: 4770012985ISBN 13: 9784770012982
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. (JPN) 1st eidtion, No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 165pp, over 200 B&W and colour photos and illus. The sword, polishing, the Habaki, the scabbard. Includes printed booklets from a Japanese museum laid in; one booklet is in Japanese; the other in English: "Manual for Appreciting eht Japanese Sword from the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozen Kyokai (The Japanese Sword Museum) (2.3 JM LVR 206/b4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN 10: 150777012XISBN 13: 9781507770122
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1987
4°. 167,(1) S., mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Orig.-Leinen mit Umschlag. Umschlag etwas berieben und mit kleineren Randläsuren; Ecken etwas bestoßen.
Published by Kodansha International, 1987
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Sixth Printing. 8vo. Bound in grey cloth with silver title to spine. Dust-jacket with spine discoloured, from orange to pink.
Published by Kodansha International, Japan, 1987
ISBN 10: 4770012985ISBN 13: 9784770012982
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, first printing. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have very light wear. paste down pages and free end papers have some very light soiling. mylar-covered dust jacket has a tear along back upper edge and some wear at corners. jacket wear is visually mitigated by mylar covering.
Published by Kodansha International (15 juin 1987), 1987
Seller: BOOKIT!, Genève, Switzerland
Condition: Used: Like New. In-4 cartonné, jaquette illustrée, nombreuses illustrations, comme neuf.
Published by Kodansha USA, Tokyo, 1987
ISBN 10: 087011798XISBN 13: 9780870117985
Seller: St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1987. A superb hardback copy in Fine jacket. Broad 8vo sized book. This book takes the reader into the workshops of four of Japan's leading sword craftsmen. Each craftsman has a different role in the manufacture of a blade. Yoshindo Yoshihara, the swordsmith, begins with raw steel made in a traditional charcoal-fueled smelter and refines it by folding and forging, gradually shaping it into a sword with a hardened edge. Okisato Fujishiro then sharpens and polishes the sword with fine stones to reveal the color and texture of the steel. Metalworker Hiroshi Miyajima makes the small copper-and-gold habaki collar that fits between the blade and the scabbard. Finally, Kazuyuki Takayama carves the hilt and the scabbard out of a single piece of wood. Black-and-white photographs show every stage of the manufacture, while important information on history, metallurgy, and modern-day appraisal is presented in an extensive introduction.
Published by Kodansha USA, 1987
ISBN 10: 087011798XISBN 13: 9780870117985
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in grey cloth boards, light shelfwear, bump on top corner, otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, p168, dustwrapper with slight fading to spine but otherwise complete, unclipped and in Very Good condition, in a clear protective archival dustwrapper. From raw steel to tempered blade, this text presents a visual account of the ancient craft of swordmaking as practiced in modern Japan. Well over a thousand years old, the tradition of swordmaking in Japan is one of the most highly regarded metal crafts in the world. When all sword manufacture was prohibited in Japan for seven years after World War II, the age-old techniques were in danger of being lost forever. Today, in the hands of a new generation of practitioners, the craft is making a startling comeback. Connoisseurs say that the swords being produced.
2. Tokyo / New York / London, Kodansha International, in-8°, 1987, 167 pp, 218 ills., some in colour, bibl., index, grey publisher's cloth, no dustwrapper, grey endpapers.
Published by Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1987
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Kishida, Tom (illustrator). 1st Edition. 167 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs, figures and drawings. White pages clean, good condition. Grey endpapers spotless. Grey cloth with silver title on spine. Edges very lightly worn. Black and orange pictorial dust jacket shows very light wear at edges. One small tear at top edge. VG+/VG.
Published by Kodansha USA, 1987
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1stedn; Small 4to. Original gray cloth, silver gilt spine titles, VG/vgdj unclipt: 167pp. Over 218 illus., 11 in color., bibl, index, Jap colophon, numerous bw illus; 'This book takes the reader into the workshops of four of Japan's leading sword craftmen'.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Kodansha USA, 2002
ISBN 10: 4770019629ISBN 13: 9784770019622
Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 224pp with b/w photographs.
Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, 2006
ISBN 10: 4770024940ISBN 13: 9784770024947
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. 10.5 x 7.75". 192pp. Incl. index. Profusely illustrated from b&w photographs and line drawings.
Published by Kodansha USA, 2002
ISBN 10: 4770019629ISBN 13: 9784770019622
Seller: Corner of a Foreign Field, Tokyo, TOKYO, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2002.Hardcover.Very good,very good.223 pages.Ships from Japan.Usually ships in 1-2 working days.
Published by Kodansha USA, 2013
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 4to blue cloth, silver gilt titles, prevowner to fep ow VG/vgdj: 192pp, index, bw illus, glossary; To understand Japanese sword polishing is to understand the Japanese sword. Down through the years, the great sword connoisseurs in Japan have been sword polishers. A swordsmith can spend a large amount of time forging a classic sword, but refining and bringing out its final shape, colour and texture so that all the details of the steel and hamon (the temper line) are clearly visible is the responsibility of another craftsman - the sword polisher. .
Published by Kodansha International, 2002
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1stedn, 2ndptg of 2002 1stedn; 4to 2tone gray imitation leather over bds, prevowner to fep, appears unread, ow NF/nfdj unclipt: 223pp, index, Jap colophon, numerous bw illus,
Published by Kodansha International, 2013
ISBN 10: 1568365195ISBN 13: 9781568365190
Seller: Corner of a Foreign Field, Tokyo, TOKYO, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 2013.Hardcover.New,new.223 pages.Ships from Japan.Usually ships in 1-2 working days.
Published by Kodansha USA, 2006
ISBN 10: 4770024940ISBN 13: 9784770024947
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
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