A mid-century modern bookshop overlooking Manhattan Beach Pier

Independent booksellers · Since 1997

Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

Rare, out-of-print, and unusual books—thoughtfully described and waiting to be found again.

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The pleasure is inthe discovery.

The best bookshops invite you to wander. Epilonian is a carefully built collection of books with character—scholarly, beautiful, peculiar, overlooked, and sometimes impossible to categorize.

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Begin with a machine, a material, or a practical question. Wander from workshop manuals to aviation, railways, industrial design, mining, automobiles, and the sea.

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Engineering Practice13 books Tools & Workshops3 books Metals & Welding3 books Industrial Design10 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight17 books Automobiles & Motoring19 books Mining & Geology27 books Maritime Engineering8 books

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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Portrait of London River: The Tidal Thames from Teddington to the Sea

The Acropolis of Athens

Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Prince

Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco

The Philosophy of Jnanadeva

Jackson Square Through the Years

Flamenco: Gypsy Dance and Music from Andalusia

Archaeology in the Holy Land (Fourth Edition)

Forest Policy (The American Forestry Series)

Human Sexual Response

Masterpieces of Jewish Art: Silver (Shedevry evreiskogo iskusstva: Serebro), Volume 3

Indian Art and the Art of Ceylon, Central and South-East Asia

The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement

Fossils, Minerals and Rocks: Collection and Preservation

The Last Years of British Railways Steam: Reflections, Ten Years After

Important 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture: Sale Numbers 110, 111, 112, February 25, 26, 27, 1974 (including the Collection of the Edgardo Acosta Gallery Ltd.)

Clarence John Laughlin: Visionary Photographer

Grant-Munger Collection: American and European 19th & 20th Century Art and Asiatic Art

Equitation: Learning and Teaching

Egon Schiele: Drawings and Water-Colours

Models of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel

The Story

Nature Magazine, March 1945, Vol. 38, No. 3

Awaken Your Sleeping Beauty

Hastings House Country Estate

Aboriginal Australian Art: A Visual Perspective

Georges Rouault: The Early Years 1903-1920

Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance

The Alaskan Bird Sketches of Olaus Murie: With Excerpts from His Field Notes

Nagasaki and Yokohama Prints from the Richard Gump Collection

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck

Archaic Chinese Bronzes in Australian and New Zealand Collections

Weisbrod Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Selected Chinese Works of Art

Acres of Loveliness: The Flower-Seed Industry of the Lompoc Valley

Native Faces: Winold Reiss (1886-1953), June 28-July 26, 1997

Arman: du 18/6 au 10/9/1995, Musee Royal de Mariemont

Revealed to Me

The American West: The John F. Eulich Collection

The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest

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