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Warriors of Medieval Japan (General Military)
by Turnbull, Stephen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1841768642
- ISBN 13
- 9781841768649
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Osprey Publishing, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Neatly penned small previous owner name and date at top edge of front free endpaper. No other marks. Beautifully illustrated with full color and black and white images. 288 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. A really comprehensive bok examining the military lives of four formidable warrior types, covering the samurai and the ninja, as well as the experiences of warrior monks and ashigaru foot soldiers..
Synopsis
Stephen Turnbull is recognized as one of the world's foremost military historians of the medieval period. He first rose to prominence as a result of his 1977 book, The Samurai: A Military History . Since then he has achieved an equal fame in writing about European military subjects and has had 30 books published. Stephen Turnbull took his first degree at Cambridge University, and received a PhD from Leeds University for his work on Japanese religious history. His work has been recognized by the awarding of the Canon Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies and a Japan Festival Literary Award. He currently divides his time between lecturing in Japanese Religion at the University of Leeds and writing. The author lives in Yorkshire, UK.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034552
- Title
- Warriors of Medieval Japan (General Military)
- Author
- Turnbull, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1841768642
- ISBN 13
- 9781841768649
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Warriors, Medieval Japan, Japanese Warriors, first edition, Stepen Turnbull, ninja, samurai, ashigaru, warrior monks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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