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 japanese toy reference books on e bay 
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http://stores.ebay.com/JAPANAVI_Toy-Hob ... idZ2QQtZkm this seller has quite a few reference books for sale with BIN . even has yugi s book which i would highly recommend .


Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:56 pm
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this looks really good although $67 (with shipping) seems really steep. Anyone have this or know what the original yen was?

Thanks!


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That's a GREAT book, it's called Sofubi Holocaust and has tons of obscure robot and kaiju characters you never knew were realized in vinyl.

Unfortunately that price sucks. I got it at Mandarake last month for 800 yen, half the original cover price of 1600 yen. The ISBN is 4-415-09321-3 if you want to try searching for it elsewhere.


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Hey, look at this, there are 7 used and new available on Amazon JP, starting at under 2,000 yen:

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The used book sellers don't usually ship to the US like Amazon Japan does, but I'm sure you could get an agent to order one for you.


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Thanks for the ISBN number! I have a number of large Japanese bookstores within a few blocks of my office in Manhattan and I should be able to order this thru them for the cover price :D


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These little books RULE!

The main man at ichiban boshi turned me on to these..

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I love those Saito books. I hear tell that there are more of them on the way, too.

There is some more information about toy books over at Toybox DX:

http://www.toyboxdx.com/infolibrary/pubs/
http://www.toyboxdx.com/library/books/lit-index.html


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