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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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Berlin the Capital: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow

California Grandeur and Genre: From the Collection of James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees

The Treasure Hunter's Yearbook, 1972-'73 Edition

Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow

Ellen G. White, Volume 2: The Progressive Years, 1862-1876

Today's the Day! Lan's Samba Schools

A Howling Wilderness: A History of the Summit Road Area of the Santa Cruz Mountains 1850-1906

Christmas in the Islands: Original Songs by Randy Hongo

The Bister Book: An Easy Method for Painting Grapes, Roses & Water-lilies

The Magazine Silver, Volume XIII, Number 3, May-June 1980

Building the Suez Canal (A Horizon Caravel Book)

The Chinese Pavilion: Dream and Reality

Paper Dolls of China: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture: Christie's East, November 14, 1991 (Sale DAN-7253)

John Woolman: Quintessential Quaker, 1720 to 1772

Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land

Heartbreaker

The Samurai Film

Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book Illumination in the British Isles 600-800

Afloat: A Journal of His Days at Sea

Returning Home: Tao-chi's Album of Landscapes and Flowers

My Gun Has Bullets

In Search of Love and Competence: Twenty-Five Years of Service, Training, and Research at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center

Cheerleading

The Original Biography of Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Heroine

Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century

Jaume Plensa

The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell

Reporting the Arts II: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976

God's Battleaxe: The Life of Lord President John Bradshawe (1603-1659)

Gente Bien Mexicana: 25 Years in Mexico

Playing Under the Gun: An Athlete's Tale of Survival in 1970s Chile

Wendy Artin: October-November 2001

Wendy Artin: Roma Antica, November 2002

Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World

Medieval Costume

Hitler and Munich: A Historical Guide to the Sights and Addresses of Munich Important to Adolf Hitler, His Followers and His Victims

The Negro in the Civil War

Percy Cochran's Corny History of the United States

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