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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Machines& Making

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 & Flight13 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

The Pilot's Mind and His Memory

Marine Life: Pacific Tidal Regions. 24 Subjects in Full Color

Porzellanmalerei - Moderne Techniken / Porcelain Painting - Modern Techniques: Zeichnungen, Entwurfe, Beispiele / Drawings, Designs, Examples

Our Island

Un Estilo Inconfundible / A Unique Style: Arte en Porcelana / Porcelain Art, Volumen I

The Map of Dreams (Meng de ditu)

La porcelaine francaise

Une certaine histoire d'amour

Bari d'altri tempi

Bari la zita me

Sandy's Sketches

Painting Fruit with Jayne Houston

The Joy of Luster in Porcelain Art (Rasuta de Tanoshimu Poserin Ato): The Techniques of Shining and Fantastic Porcelain Painting

34 Hit Parade Extras: Dixieland Song Folio

Reuzen ter Zee en in de Lucht

Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers

The Half-Share Man: Peter Folger of Nantucket, Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin

Hellcats over the Philippine Deep

Sumi-e

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

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