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

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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 Design9 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight10 books Automobiles & Motoring18 books Mining & Geology26 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

First Flowerings: Early Virginia Quilts

Concepts, Modes, Systems

Beyond Winning: John Wooden (Daily Bruin Special)

The Hawken Rifle: Its Place in History

The Best of Nash Buckingham

Man-Eaters of Kumaon

Buckskins and Black Powder: A Mountain Man's Guide to Muzzleloading

Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth

Perspective / Space and Design

Stark Naked in '69 and '79

Indians of Lassen Volcanic National Park and Vicinity

Raoul Dufy 1877-1953

Havasupai Baskets and their Makers: 1930-1940

Hua Zhining zhi Hua: 2000 Niandai Daibiaozuo (Paintings of Ruby H. Wang: Representative Works of the 2000s)

Silk Screen Printing

Pablo Neruda: All Poets the Poet

Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux

Les Miniatures Persanes

Donald "Putt" Putman

Lambesc dans l'histoire de la Provence

Delacroix: Aquarelles du Maroc

Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography

Que Sabroso! Recipes from Our Kitchens

Ghirardi: 1982-1992

Airplane Sheet Metal Construction: Book Number Two

Studies in Medieval and Modern History

Directions of Playing "Chinese Game of Four Winds"

Alice's Visit to the Hawaiian Islands

Attitude Dancing

Swannanoa: Song of Beauty

For All We Know (Theme from Lovers and Other Strangers)

The Forties

Lionel Bart's Oliver! (Vocal Score)

Zhang Dawei Shu Hua Zuo Pin Xuan Ji (Selected Painting and Calligraphy of Zhang Dawei)

Bruxelles Belle Epoque: Prints Coming from the A. Van Looch Collection

Zayin the Profane: A Fable

La sposa di Roma: 5 donne famose raccontate da un grande scrittore e fatte rivivere da Elvira Gramano

Catalogue of Works of Art from Benin: The Property of a European Private Collector, Sotheby's London, 16th June 1980

The New York Tribal Antiques Show and New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, October 1996

National Watercolor Society 79th Annual Exhibition 1999 and 90th Anniversary Annual Exhibition 2010 (Two Catalogues)

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