Young Samurai, Bodybuilders of Japan
by Tamotsu Yato (Photographer), Introduction by Yukio Mishima
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Black and brown buckram boards with debossed Japanese characters to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Photogravure plates throughout. Also published in Japanese under the title Taido (Way of the Body). Essay by Hitoshi Tamari; edited by Keizo Aizawa. Translated by M. Weatherby and Paul T. Konya. Dust jacket states: "140 photographic studies in gravure of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men--young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai." No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Small closed tears and minor losses to dust jacket (see image). 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.
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- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7138
- Title
- Young Samurai, Bodybuilders of Japan
- Author
- Tamotsu Yato (Photographer), Introduction by Yukio Mishima
- Illustrator
- Tamotsu Yato
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- x, 75
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography; Asian History; Japan;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...