TURBBULL, SREPHEN R: - The Book of the SAMURAI

Leicester: Magna Books, reprint 1987 (1982) . Hardback in black, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in coloured pictorial jacket. Size: quarto (310x235mm). 192 pages illustrated throughout mostly in colour. With glossary, bibliography and index. Very Good near Fine, in scratched but still Very Good jacket. ISBN: 0-948509309 In Early Modern Japan the Samurai were the military elite. Describes their life down to 1868. Turnbull is the British expert on Japan of this period.