Lot Details & Additional Photographs
As follows: Hakusui, Inami, NIPPON-TO / THE JAPANESE SWORD, (Tokyo: Japan Sword Co., 1948), quarto (10.5 x 7.25 in.), 222 pp. with fold-out map, maroon cloth covers, dust jacket, light foxing to cover, fine condition; Sasano, Masayuki, EARLY JAPANESE SWORD GUARDS, (Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, Inc., 1972), quarto (10.5 x 8.5 in.), 284 pp., maroon cloth covers with dust jacket, fine condition with worn jacket; Yumoto, John M., THE SAMURAI SWORD, (Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Charles. E. Tuttle Company, 1958), octavo (8.5 x 6 in.), 191 pp., light brown boards with dust jacket, loose spine, worn jacket, good condition; (2) Christie's and (3) Sotheby's Japanese Sword catalogs, late 1970s, octavo, paper wraps, good condition.
$200 - 300