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 Design9 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight11 books Automobiles & Motoring18 books Mining & Geology26 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

Lambesc dans l'histoire de la Provence

Delacroix: Aquarelles du Maroc

Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography

Que Sabroso! Recipes from Our Kitchens

Ghirardi: 1982-1992

Airplane Sheet Metal Construction: Book Number Two

Studies in Medieval and Modern History

Directions of Playing "Chinese Game of Four Winds"

Alice's Visit to the Hawaiian Islands

Attitude Dancing

Swannanoa: Song of Beauty

For All We Know (Theme from Lovers and Other Strangers)

The Forties

Lionel Bart's Oliver! (Vocal Score)

Zhang Dawei Shu Hua Zuo Pin Xuan Ji (Selected Painting and Calligraphy of Zhang Dawei)

Bruxelles Belle Epoque: Prints Coming from the A. Van Looch Collection

Zayin the Profane: A Fable

La sposa di Roma: 5 donne famose raccontate da un grande scrittore e fatte rivivere da Elvira Gramano

Catalogue of Works of Art from Benin: The Property of a European Private Collector, Sotheby's London, 16th June 1980

The New York Tribal Antiques Show and New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, October 1996

National Watercolor Society 79th Annual Exhibition 1999 and 90th Anniversary Annual Exhibition 2010 (Two Catalogues)

Farnham in Old Picture Postcards

Liu Ren Hua Ji (Six Painters): North American Chinese Artists Association Six-Person Exhibition, Chicago 2000

The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800

Bread Sculpture: The Edible Art

Gold Mining in Washington State: Yesterday and Today; "Pioneer Stories," Hiram "Okanogan" Smith, the Ballard Brothers

Native Trout of Western North America

Victoria 125 Years, 1862-1987: A Reprint of Victoria Centennial Celebration with the Addition of Color Pages of Today Comparing with Yesterday

This Was Sawmilling: Sawdust Sagas of the Western Mills

Perilous Paradise: Photo Story of New Guinea and Its Emerging People

Gemstone Carving

California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 8

Architecture

The Crown Lands 1461 to 1536: An Aspect of Yorkist and Early Tudor Government

Gold and Cattle Country

Any One Can Bake

Ideas for Bookcases & Bookshelves: How to Buy, Build, and Use in Home or Apartment

The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection

Clinicopathological Conferences of the Massachusetts General Hospital: Selected Medical Cases

Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen

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