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 Design10 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight12 books Automobiles & Motoring18 books Mining & Geology27 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

Bootleg Elixir

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

Estructura demografica de Ferreries (1801-1850) [with] Una societat pagesa en una epoca de transicio: Estructura demografica des Mercadal (1785-1865). Two Volumes

Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Pictures and Prints, No. 106, Autumn 1968: The Official Journal of the Fine Art Trade Guild

Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity

Tales Along the Appalachian Plateau. Inscribed and Signed

Oceania. Signed by Riitta Nelimarkka

Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection

Manilow: Music and Passion. Las Vegas Hilton Souvenir Program, with Opening Night Invitation (2005)

Tillamook County, Oregon: A Wonderful Place to Live! Year 'Round Fun in the Land of Trees, Cheese and Ocean Breeze (1970)

Baja California Accommodations and Camping Areas (1979)

Inyo National Forest: Minaret Vista Nature Trail (1967); with The Alpine Lodge, Mammoth Lakes, Brochure with Summer Rates 1971

A Guide to Historic Long Beach: Downtown Walking Map

Diego Rivera: Del tiempo y del color / Of Time and Color; with Rodolfo Morales: Juegos y Evocaciones Exhibition Card

Big Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead Lodging Brochures: Five Promotional Brochures, circa 1955-1975

A Pictorial Guide to Mesa Verde National Park

Mountain River Men: A Story of Early Jackson Hole

Wupatki Ruins Trail, Wupatki National Monument

Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco: Visitor Brochure

Working Drawings of Machinery

From an Ivory Tower: A Discussion of Philosophical Problems Originating in Modern Mathematics

Sigma Phi: A Novel in Poetry and Prose [Signed]

A Cycle of Cathay, or China, South and North, with Personal Reminiscences

The Story of Jacob Walzer: Superstition Mountain and Its Famed Dutchman's Lost Mine

The Quill Lake Homemakers' Club Cook Book, 1949

Book Future in Indonesia: Published Specially for the Frankfurt Book Fair

A Child's Verses of Ceylon

Tentacles of Progress [Inscribed and Signed, Limited Edition]

Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises

PSA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, January 1954 (with Annual Membership Directory)

Griffith Park (Images of America)

The German Bundestag: Personalities and Events. A Pictorial History of the German Bundestag

Rome, the Great Movie Set: A Never-Ending Emotion

Persia, the Land of the Gulestan or Rose Garden; Nomading South of the Equator

Erik XIV: Drame en Quatre Actes

Don't Sweetheart Me

One Two Three Jump (Right Into My Arms)

The Glow-Worm: Modern Version by Johnny Mercer

Museo dell'Olivo (English edition)

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