the connoisseur's book of japanese swords

[Widowmaker]

Hello everyone, I know this may already has been asked several time. I do find some thread talking about this but no one has recent update.

 

I want to really learn more about Nihonto, reading on the forum and internet make me really tired and is hard for me to concentrate. I think book nowadays is still the best tool for a efficient learning.

 

Well on another thread which talked about the price of this book, people on this forum provided a lot of links in which the price was really really interesting. However, when I purchased, all siteweb replied me that the book is no longer available or is for backorder. I don't really spend 200-300 euros for this book, even if it is certainly a valueable book.

 

So, if someone is still selling his excellent condition The Connoissuer's Book Of Japanese Swords, I would definitly buying it (for a reasonnable price^^). If not, maybe you know someone or some siteweb still selling this. I would buy it without any hesitation if the price is reasonnable.

 

Don't if I should post this in the Trade section or I can post it here as a discussion topic.

 

Thank you very much in advance.

[Stephen]

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19657

[Widowmaker]

“the request thread does not exist"

[Brian]

It was marked as sold by Ken, so if you didn't buy it, then someone else did. Removed the sold thread.

 

Brian

[Stephen]

least expensive on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-Connoisseu ... 1c4435790e

[estcrh]

Much of the book is available online.

http://books.google.com.ph/books/about/ ... edir_esc=y

[Jean]

Only "much", entire pages are missing.

[Kronos]

Wow, I only purchased this 2 years ago for £30 and it's atleast quadrupled in that time. Thanks to everyone for recommending it, just a shame I didn't get 10 copies as thats some investment

[Grey Doffin]

Jeez guys, someone is looking for a book and ebay gets mentioned and a partial copy online gets mentioned and a sold copy gets mentioned but does anyone think to mention that it might make sense to contact the guy who sells Nihonto books?

Just a thought.

Grey

[Stephen]

Grey do you have one? YES

http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.c ... n-nagayama

[Grey Doffin]

I will in the next few days. If you are interested please contact me through the website.

Grey

[Widowmaker]

I will in the next few days. If you are interested please contact me through the website.

Grey

 

Contacted. However 175$ + 38$ shipping fee is a little bit too high for me.

 

I would be happy to buy one copy for 100$ or less if some is still willing to sell for that price. I know that the price has skyrocketed for a couple of month. People were still able to getting one copy for 50$-100$ on May. But now, 175$ - 450$ range for a book is really too high for me, even it is a very valueable book.

 

Thank you for your information anyway. I will keep looking for it. My lack of knowledge on Nihonto push me to do this...