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.

A personal collection

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.

Browse slowly, follow your curiosity, or write to Ann when you are looking for something particular.

Art & visual culture History & place Literature Music Nature, land & sea Uncommon subjects

Follow a thread

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.

Wander this shelf

Engineering Practice13 books Tools & Workshops3 books Metals & Welding3 books Industrial Design8 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight10 books Automobiles & Motoring18 books Mining & Geology23 books Maritime Engineering8 books

Fresh from the catalog

Recently shelved

One copy, one listing. When a book is gone, it may not pass this way again.

1 / 10

Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Kaukasische Teppiche: Ausstellung 17.11.-16.12.1962, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt

Burning Lights: Spirituality, Tradition and Craft in Recent Art from the City of Angels (John Frame, Laura Lasworth, Jan Saether, Michael Schrauzer)

Films and Filming, March 1980 (Vol. 26, No. 6, Issue No. 306): Eddie Kidd in Heavy Metal

Southern Cross 1959 Sleep Products, with Net Price List Effective December 5, 1958

Sandro Negri: Archives. An Exhibition of Works from Sandro Negri's Personal Collection

Printed Books and Manuscripts including Literature and Fine Bindings: New York, October 7, 1994 (Sale VAILIMA-7964)

Reflections on Auckland Harbour

The Congress Book 1992: Fifty-Eighth American Philatelic Congress

De la feve de cacao au chocolat

The Innocents from Indiana

Wendy Artin: Aphrodite, October-November 2000

Willem de Kooning (The Great American Artists Series)

Dead Reckoning Altitude and Azimuth Table (H.O. No. 211)

Decision in Vienna: The Czechoslovak-Hungarian Border Dispute of 1938

Magic Valley: The Story of Hollywood Bowl

Richard Oelze: April 17 Through May 18, 1974

Paper Trail to Internment: Clippings From Seattle Area Newspapers Collected At The Time By Yoriko Watanabe Sasaki

Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia 1710-1790

Images of Time: 65 Years of Art and Life. Nancy Lindburg Retrospective Exhibition

Ben Shahn: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

A Short History of Chinese Art

None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

The Buzz on Honey: Recipes, Facts & Uses

American Cookery, Formerly The Boston Cooking-School Magazine: Four Issues, June-July 1931, January 1932, February 1932, August-September 1934

The Country House: An Exhibition of Views of Country Houses and their Gardens, Views of their Interiors, and Architects' Plans and Perspectives

Katalog personal'noi vystavki A. E. Gorbatova (Catalogue of the Solo Exhibition of A. E. Gorbatov)

Kazakhskii Gosudarstvennyi Akademicheskii Teatr Dramy imeni M. Auezova (Auezov Kazakh State Academic Drama Theatre), Souvenir Booklet 1988

Three to Zero: The Story of the Birth and Death of the World Journal Tribune

The Excellent Women: The Origins and History of Queen Margaret College

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)

A bookseller’s eye, not an algorithm.

Tell us what has been escaping you.