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 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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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Nuclear Physics Tables and An Introduction to Nuclear Physics

Pilatus: The Mountain and Its Railway

The Development of the Soviet Economic System: An Essay on the Experience of Planning in the U.S.S.R.

A History of the Linen Hall Library 1788-1988

The Cross in the Middle of Nowhere: A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Oregon

La pittura dei Sotta

The Cornish Mineral Industry: Past Performance and Future Prospect, A Personal View 1937-1951

House Founded on a Rock: The History of First Baptist Church of Eugene

Best Ghost Stories

The Paleo-Anthropology of the Early Eskimos (Ipiutak and Tigara)

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture

Bovard of the Post-Dispatch

Actes et communications / Transactions: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, XXIVe Congres 2005 en Suisse

Les manuscrits liturgiques du Moyen Age / Liturgical Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

James Gowan (Architectural Monographs 3)

Benny Alba 1969-2013

Seen and Received: The Shakers' Private Art

Course in Wash Drawing

Peter Hunt's Workbook, with Text and Pictures

100 Tennessee Tall Tales and Wee Whoppers (From All 100 Counties), Book #1

Two Lands for Ming

Critters

Nash's Merchant and Seamen's Expeditious Measurer

The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

Tales of Tahoe: Lake Tahoe History, Legend and Description

Behind Barbed Wire

Under the Blood Banner: The Story of a Hitler Youth

The Paintings of Henry Miller: Paint as You Like and Die Happy

Thomas Shannon: A Selection of Works 1966-1991

Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870. Essays Inspired by the Collections at Platt Hall, The Gallery of English Costume, Manchester

The German Shepherd Dog: A Genetic History of the Breed

Fresh Sour Cream

Two Centuries of American Musical Composition: The Etude Music Magazine Souvenir of the Sesqui-Centennial, 1776-1926

Connemara. Part 1: Introduction and Gazetteer

Legacy of A Robbery on the Iron Mountain Railroad

(Hey, Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song

The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History

Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest

Bootleg Elixir

The Sounds of Chaucer's English: A Study Pamphlet and Script to Accompany an Instructional Recording

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