Zustand: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.
Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 1555842909 ISBN 13: 9781555842901
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). First. Illustrated in color and black & white. 239 pages. Oblong 4to, brown cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. (price-clipped, very faint dampstain at the interior). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989). First American edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 1555842909 ISBN 13: 9781555842901
Anbieter: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Square 4to, 239 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.
hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Jacket has light wear, enclosed in a protective mylar cover, book edges are worn, right side of the front cover has chipping, rear cover near spine has 2 small dings, binding sound, internally clean. No book has covered, so comprehensively, nearly 4,000 years of sword-making history or paid due attention to the hilt weapons of Africa, Mesoamerica, China, Central Asia and Indonesia, which merit more than the few lines they usually receive in weapons encyclopedias. However, on the ground of technical excellence, cultural significance and evolutionary vigor, pride of place is given to European, Japanese and Islamic swords. The text provides expert appraisal of the weapons themselves, and is rich in historical and background detail.
Weidenfeld & Nicholson: NY 1989. 11 x 12", oblong, cloth 239pp, well illustrated in color and b/, bib, index, foot of spine bumped else vg in vg dw. FIRST PRINTING.