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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

The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest

Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth

McDonnell Douglas / Douglas Aircraft Company 1st 75 Years

The Dollmaker's Workbook: Children Dolls, Volume I German Dolls

Beautiful Dolls Made Easy: The Complete Book on Porcelain Dollmaking

Sectional Warping Made Easy: Includes Warping and Dressing the Loom

Angels of Deliverance: The Underground Railroad in Queens, Long Island, and Beyond

Palimpsest

The Steamboat Revolution: London's First Steamships

Hoot Owls, Honeysuckle and Hallelujah

Contemporary American Painting: University of Illinois 1951

A Biographical Index to California & Western Artists

Stephen C. Massett in The First California Troubadour

For an Architecture of Reality

I Was Hitler's Doctor: From the German of Kurt Krueger, M.D.

Archaeologia: Archaeology Books. Fall 1996 Catalogue: Catherwood

Black-Robed Samson: The Story of Peter De Smet, S.J., The Apostle of the Indians

All About Budgerigars: A Concise but Comprehensive Treatise on Housing, Management, Breeding and Exhibiting, with Notes on Colour Varieties and their Reproduction

Rowlandson's Drawings for a Tour in a Post Chaise

Bears & Theirs: A Book for Bear Lovers

The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe l'Oeil Tradition in American Painting

Port Economics

Cordage and Cables: Their Uses at Sea

Compass Work: Notes for the M.O.T. Examinations

Electricity and General Magnetism: Illustrated Notes for Masters and Mates

Badal: Knocknarea Writers' Anthology

The Dragon Who Giggled: A Playlet for Children in One Scene

Chan Yu: The Absence of Self and the Presence of Images

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume I: The Hsiao Ching

War and Art: Destruction and Protection of Italian Cultural Heritage during World War I

Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgita

Florence: A Map of Perceptions

Hearst Castle Fare: Featuring Authentic Recipes Served in Hearst Castle

Old Forts of the Southwest: Second in a Series on Historical Western Military Posts 1850-1890

Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects

Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads

We Come From The Sea

Vanishing Americana

Orange County and Life Before Disneyland: The Story of the World Famus Belisle's 1955-1995

Lessons in Lightness: The Art of Educating the Horse

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