An Illustrated Book of Japanese Armor (The Japanese Folio Edition)

Yoshihiko Sasama, 1988. Cloth. Fine. A superb copy of the scarce 1988 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its russet cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Thick folio, hundreds of high-quality illustrations, including a number of them in rich color. Captions and titling in both Japanese and English, the text itself exclusively in Japanese. Also includes an all-but-pristine dark-green cloth chemise (with ivory-bone clasps) and a lovely printed outer cardboard box.