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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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

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

Autumn Leaves: Kashmiri Reminiscences

The Harmless People

Icon Gallery - Ohrid

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

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

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