compton a et al (17 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NO MARKING.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9781412928915.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9781441172228.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9781441172228.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9781412928915.

Pictorial Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None Issued. NeLL HUKLE COMPTON (illustrator). this book does not look like it was used. NO WRITING INSIDE.VERY MINIMAL WEAR OF CORNERS; GREAT COLORING OF FRONT BOARD. see picture on left.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Wallace MacKay, A J Munnings, F Feller et al (illustrator). 208 pages. An account of the wives and ladies who travelled with the officers of the British army in the Crimea. Some evidence of life in a private library and a slight lean to the binding, otherwise clean and sound. The dust wrapper is worn and torn, with some areas faded through sunning. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 6"x8.5".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Three volumes. Brown cloth gilt and printed in blind, quarter tan and black cloth gilt with decorated paper-covered boards, tall 12mo., ix, 143, (2); (iv), 134, (1); (iv), 172, (1) pages. 1943, 1945, 1948. Chapbooks Nos. 9, 12 and 18. 350 numbered copies of Vol. 1 and 600 copies of Second and Third series, designed by Melvin Loos and printed by the George Grady Press. Title-page scratchboard drawing by Hans Alexander Mueller. Small bookplate to Third series, else near fine copies.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: NEW.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. This is a very good harfcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear, and a very good slipcase that is toned. Very clean inside and out, but a short previous owner name on the dark blue textured front endpaper, faint but there. Otherwise completely clean throughout. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Japan House Gallery in 1976. Essays by Homma Junji, Sato Kanichi, Walter Ames Compton, and Ogawa Morihiro. Illustrated in color and black & white. Maps. The original print is present and fine. 15" high X 10" wide, 134 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.

paperback. Zustand: near fine. Profusely illustrated in color and b/w. 134 pages. Thin folio, original stiff printed wrappers (lightly scuffed). Tokyo: Japan House Gallery, Japan Society, (1976). A near fine copy. Scarce. One of the most significant catalogues of Japanese art Swords.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial softcover with blue textured paper endpapers. Black and white diagrams and black and white and colour photographs with complete catalogue of show exhibited at Japan House Gallery in 1976. Light bump to foot of spine and one corners, otherwise a fine copy. In the cardboard shipping box.

Hardcover. Two Volumes, One Full Year of Twelve Issues, with 11 of 12 color fashion plates. 1/2 black leather over black cloth boards, pink pastedowns and free end papers. Includes Perils of the Overland Route to California; Edgar and Elfrida; The Fortune Hunters (Crowe); Mrs. Peter Dame (Augusta); Jaufry the Knight at the Fair Brunissende (Elwes); Human Wolves--or Lycanthropy; Leonora de Guzman, etc. Good, wear to spine and edges, free end papers detached but present, foxing, one plate partially missing.

4to. pp. xiii, [1], 223, [3]. profusely illus. (many colour). index. wrs. Very good copy. First Edition, paperback issue. Published in conjunction with an exhibition.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. An all-but-immaculate copy of the 1976 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Folio, lovely color and black-and-white photos throughout. The publisher's original card slipcase shows light soiling and offsetting to the panels. The catalogue of the spring 1976 exhibition shown at Japan House Gallery.

New York 1976, Japan Society. Stiff black wrs., NEW UNUSED, 134p., 38 superb color, 82 b.w. plates, 18 illustrations, folio, ca. 27 x 37 cm., map, folio. * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . This is one of the most important catalogs on Japanese sword blades & furniture ever issued. Printed in chromolithography on heavy rag paper. Covering Japanese Sword and its Cultural Significance by Homma Junji. On This Exhibiton by K. Sato. . Artistic Quality of the Japanese Sword by Compton. Characteristics of the Japanese Sword & Exhibition Catalogue by M. Ogawa. Statement of Appreciation by Compton. . A superb collection of Tsuba, blades & Midare, Kozuka, Kogai & Menuki. With outline of blades, nomenclature, points of value, appreciation, history of the Japanese sword, shapes, identification of Japanese sword by its characteristics, Koshirae, Kodogu &c. . The exhibition catalog draws upon over 100 examples, each well identified and explained. Explanation of tang form and file-marks, tempering & forging characteristics, engravings, signature, mountings & accessories. . By and large the most valuable reference to any collector's library. R A R E . *** Color photos are posted to our website.