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This page was last updated: February 8, 2010

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Arts of the Samurai - Christie's New  York  sale  catalogue 23.10.09, 8.5"x10.5", 66pp  stiff  paper covers, illustrates  in colour 70 lots of swords, fittings & armour plus 17 lost of associated items. With a list of priced realized. GBP12

USED BOOKS

FULLER  & GREGORY. Military Swords  of  Japan 1868-1945, 1986  hard covers  &  dust  wrapper. 7.5"x10", 127pp. Illustrates  Army, Navy,  Air Force & Civil  swords, Arsenal  marks, sword  belts  &  hangers  and  much  else on  nearly every page.     SOLD        GBP55

Another copy, 1993 reprint, 7.25"x9.5" soft covers.    GBP35

Lundgren Collection of Japanese Metalwork, 8.5"x12" paper bound, 121pp. Christie's Sale Catalogue of 1997. 49pp of colour and 3pp b&w plates illustrating 173 tsuba, 59 kozuka, 93 fuchi-kashira, 15 mounted  swords and other metalwork including  superb examples  of  Miochin  animals. Some  of  the  attributions to  unsigned  pieces in the original Japanese catalogue of 1992 have been changed.With prices realised.          GBP35

ROBINSON.The Arts of the Japanese Sword. 1961 first edition, 6.25"x102,110pp plus 100 full page plates (4 in colour), This book explains the various schools of sword and sword fittings makers. A well used copy    GBP35

NIHONTO  KOZA Volume 9 (Koto part 3)  Transliteration  by  Harry Afu  Watson, 8.5"x11", 414pp. About a  third  is illustrations of blades and tangs. Covers Bizen on 249pp and also the smiths of Chikuzen, Nagato, Kii, Awa, Sanuki. Iyo & Tosa. Long out of print. SOLD    GBP250    

SLOUGH. The Oshigata  Book of  Modern Japanese Swordsmiths  1868-1945. 8.5” x11" paper  covers, 272pp illustrat-ing the oshigata of 170 post 1868 smiths, mostly  wartime, giving  biographical  details and  much other detail about war-time blade manufacture.   GBP80

HAWLEY'S   JAPANESE  SWORDSMITHS  by Hawley. 2  volumes  8.5"x11"  soft  covers, 1100pp. Lists  over  30000

sword -smiths in romaji  and kanji, with relative values, typical  signatures & dates and page references to smiths listed in 'Toko Taikan' and 'Nihon Toko Jiten' (#1 on the Japanese page, now out of print) There is  a 90pp  reference section on inscriptions, personal names, titles, nengo and  sword terminology including  hamon, carvings, etc. Volume 2 has very slight water damage O/P     GBP300