Interesting books

[Thekirsh]

Some interesting books for sale hiding amongst the many bonsai and ninja books.

Seller austral05

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/KATEI-SUZUKI-DAGGER ... 7C294%3A50

 

Simon

[Brian]

Good find Simon. Here is a list of the sword and tosogu related ones:

http://collectibles.shop.ebay.com/items ... ec0Q2em282

 

Brian

[Rich T]

That Tanto book is not that rare, can be bought from Japan for about $40 and the JSSUS has a translation for it for about $20 from memory. It''s an ok book though, but that is way over priced.

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Brian]

Yeah..wasn't commenting on that particular listing...more the rest of the list.

There are some decent books there. Prices aren't bargains, but some of them are worth a look.

Shhhhh..don't tell anyone, but I think the Japanese are on to us, and our willingness to pay more for stuff that they ask little for over there :lol:

 

Brian

[Ford Hallam]

$120 for back issues of the NBTHK journals...crikey! I'm sitting on a fortune :D . If anyone's interested I can offer then at $100 each

 

oops...just noticed that's for 12 issues

 

I'd very strongly recommend this one though;

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-SWORD-COLO ... aultDomain

I mentioned it yesterday on the thread about Onin/Heanjo tsuba. The range of tsuba shown is excellent, the quality of the images is very good and all in colour, and the actual examples are all superb. I can't remember what I paid for mine but that price might be considered a bit pricey...especially with such high shipping costs added. I'd imagine it's a lot cheaper in Japan, Y4000 seems about right to me.