Launch of a new book

[Spartancrest]

I just sent off a "new" book to the global distributors - Titled   "Additional Early Articles for Tsuba Study II"  It follows on "Early Articles for Tsuba Study 1880-1923 Enlarged Edition" &  "Additional Early Articles for Tsuba Study" with more articles and catalogues/catalogs, this time mainly dealing with auction catalogues of some of the well known collections and many of the more obscure ones. I concentrated only on auctions with images available, nothing more frustrating than to have to imagine what the tsuba looked like in my opinion. The book is 322 pages with several hundred tsuba illustrated. With any luck the book should be listed within a month.

 

The first book in the series [compact version] I just found listed on Catawiki, it is almost the same as the Enlarged Edition so you can check out the images https://www.catawiki...-period-1989-present  [I don't recall giving anyone permission to show the pages, but that obviously doesn't stop Catawiki !! ]

            

            

 

 

 

 

[Ron M]

Looks awesome 

[Spartancrest]

Geez Ron you are quick off the mark! 

[Bugyotsuji]

Are you Didrik Bildt? Nice mugshot anyway! 

 

Oh and congratulations on what looks like a wonderful work!

[Spartancrest]

8 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Are you Didrik Bildt?

No not me - but I like his hat! 

[Rivkin]

Congrats! Interesting!

[LeonLop]

Looks fantastic. Congratulations Dale!

[Spartancrest]

Looks like Catawiki has sold their copy - But I guess if they can steal my images - then I can steal theirs!   They were bid what it retails for anyway https://www.abebooks...-1923-1518472990/plp  I can get it delivered to anywhere in the US for about $16 USD!!!    I don't like proxy dealers 

[SalaMarcos]

Congratulations! 

I'm very interested in the two additional books as I've the first one. In fact, in that book I found some of the tsuba that nowadays belongs to some Spanish museums. 

Please keep us in touch regarding place to order. 

Best regards,

[Spartancrest]

27 minutes ago, SalaMarcos said:

I'm very interested in the two additional books as I've the first one.

Hi Marcos, I just sent off an order for another member of NMB, for all three books. I can get them at cost price [which is less than half the price Amazon or others are selling them for.] Depending on shipping address which varies a lot. Combined shipping makes it cheaper as I just found - so much so I could send another book title to the NMB member. Just send me a PM and your postal address and I can find out the cost, also the company that prints them often has "discount" periods where they give up to 20% off or better yet free shipping so timing the purchase can save even more money. It is even possible to get the new book before it gets listed so that might upset the proxy sellers  All three books make up 936 pages.

Regards All

 

I forgot to say all books are available either soft or hardcover, in general the hardcovers are $10 extra [I don't know why a little extra cardboard costs so much but that is what they charge?]

Edited June 29, 2024 by Spartancrest
Extra cost for hardcover

[Spartancrest]

I was just going through my book covers - not all are included. The things you can waste your time on in retirement! 

 

[Grevedk]

Evening Dale,

 

A truly impressive work and retirement effort - and seen as a collective it could really be viewed as a true “World Heritage Tsuba Appendix” 👏🏻 Thank you 😎👍

 

All the best

 

/Soren

 

 

[BIG]

Hi Dale, please write a YAGYU tsuba book, as soon as pos. 

 

Best Peter

[Spartancrest]

11 hours ago, BIG said:

write a YAGYU tsuba book, as soon as pos. 

But I know next to nothing on Yagyu tsuba - are they the ones with the fat mixed in with the muscle? Or is that spelled with a 'W' 

[Rivkin]

You guys have the fancy stuff, mine comes with a bit of tekkotsu...

[Shuko]

Dale

 

How much in OZ pesos for all three paperback copies plus the combined postage to Sydney ? e.g. when the 3rd book is published

 

thx

 

ps: your retirement display didn't have anything on bras and what the different sizes mean in posture, weight and handling efforts................

[Spartancrest]

1 hour ago, Shuko said:

all three paperback copies plus the combined postage to Sydney

 

It should be $85.23.  So Blurb [the printer] tells me. The new book is available through me now. It will take maybe a few more weeks to become listed on the book networks. [I will cringe when I see the markup the distributors charge - as others who sell their books can attest the author gets very very little for each book sold for me it is $2. So with a limited number of sales it is not something to make any money!] [I don't know why there is a "select shipping method" when in Australia you only get the one choice - for Americans they have a choice of four options!] 

 

 

I only use my hand size as a guide to bras - Funny how your hands shrink as you get older. 

[Jussi Ekholm]

Amazing work Dale

[Shuko]

8 hours ago, Spartancrest said:

 

It should be $85.23.  So Blurb [the printer] tells me. The new book is available through me now. It will take maybe a few more weeks to become listed on the book networks. [I will cringe when I see the markup the distributors charge - as others who sell their books can attest the author gets very very little for each book sold for me it is $2. So with a limited number of sales it is not something to make any money!] [I don't know why there is a "select shipping method" when in Australia you only get the one choice - for Americans they have a choice of four options!] 

 

 

I only use my hand size as a guide to bras - Funny how your hands shrink as you get older. 

 

Ok, so how to pay you ?

 

thx

[Spartancrest]

15 hours ago, Shuko said:

Ok, so how to pay you ?

You can PM [personal message] me and if you have a Paypal account you can forward the funds via my email address.  centurianaja@gmail.com 

Shipping fees and exchange rates vary with each country so it is best to contact me first before sending any money.  As an example the shipping alone within America [of the three books] cost close to $18 but the same books at the same prices cost over $80 just for shipping to New Zealand - from my place that is "just across the ditch" not half way around the world, but the printer is not set up in every country so sometimes distance really matters. The Publisher/printer has some strange rules at times, I have to pay express rates even though I would not mind waiting a few days and paying less - other countries sometimes have the same express or expedited shipping fees whilst others can have "economy" rates - why is beyond my pay grade!

[By the way shipping for me of just one of my own books is $16]

 

I forgot to mention there is sometimes Tax added in the total price - you might note the GST [Goods & Services Tax] in the Australian invoice above but some other countries also have state taxes which also complicates the prices and makes them different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. One I just sent off to America has LA State Tax (4.45% tax rate) added into the cost - what other states charge may be different.

Edited July 1, 2024 by Spartancrest
Added taxes

[Spartancrest]

Just found the new book is listed - https://www.barnesan...53?ean=9798331168889

https://www.amazon.c...2C286&sr=1-1-catcorr

 

Other book sites will probably come in within a few days.  Check the retail price, who gets the profit? NOT ME!

[Shuko]

I would recommend the new book to anyone with an interest in collecting tsuba and tsuba history.

 

As my library is relatively new I also bought the other 2 books and have many months of reading ahead of me.

[Spartancrest]

Thanks very much Clive. 

I noticed the book is now listed on some other sites - but not very impressed.

 

https://booksdirect....ok_9798331168889.htm   RRP $131.00     

https://booksdirect....ok_9798331169169.htm  RRP  $205.11  

What a joke with the prices! I will be lucky to sell any at those prices!

 

https://www.magersan...RTICLES-FOR/26872288 more reasonable but who can find them?

 

Really there is no incentive to do books, the middlemen make money from it but that is all. I am not bitching about book sales [I could care less] but about how others are really ripping off the general public.

[Spartancrest]

I have to report the first "review" of the new book.   

Amazon Book Review

Reviewed in the United States on 17 July 2024

 

"A lot of work went into the book but in heavens name why are the pictures in black & white? Much of the detail and beauty of the tsubas is lost without color photos."

Well two things 1. The images were originally in B&W and date from around 120 years ago - so should I have used AI to colour them? [It is a historical record not a coffee table book!]

2. There is no 's' on the end of "tsuba"  

 

There is always the option to return the book to Amazon - they have a thirty day policy and I quite like the idea that they don't get to make their exorbitant profit. 

 

[BIG]

Dale, here is a quote from my old friend Nietzsche: WHAT DOES NOT KILL ME, MAKES ME STRONGER

 

Please write a reviews review..

[Spartancrest]

1 hour ago, BIG said:

my old friend Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) 

Just how old are you Peter !!! ? 

[BIG]

Im a UHU ( under hundred years old )

[Spartancrest]

On 7/22/2024 at 3:23 PM, BIG said:

Please write a reviews review..

 

Well Peter I took your advice: Just to set the record straight. To be honest I never thought Amazon would take it on board