Nippon-To, The Japanese Sword

by Inami Hakusui

£275 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Tokyo: Japan Sword Company Limited, 1948. Japanese culture FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo 27 x 18cm , pp.xvii; 222. Illustrated with 97 monochrome plates, folding map of Japan at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth in jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author to endpaper in black ink, with his red 'chop' inked to same, publisher's hand-written postcard tucked in, with other loose related material printed brochures and ephemera inserted at rear. A

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