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.

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

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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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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

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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Modern Tennis Doubles

The Joel Magee Auction, Part 2: Auction Catalog, May 4-5, 2024

The Art of Beach Volleyball

Freight Terminals and Trains

Kant: A Revolution in Thinking

Islamic Art (Benaki Museum Exhibition Catalogue)

How to Care for Works of Art on Paper

Space Fair 71: Twelfth Annual Space Fair, Point Mugu and Port Hueneme

Otto Nagel (Welt der Kunst)

Birds of Southern California: Status and Distribution

Stuffed Shirt in Taxco

Family Fun in Yellowstone National Park: An Informative Guidebook for the Entire Family / An Entertaining Camp & Travel Companion

Flashman: From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842

Armand Millet and His Violets: Including Violettes, Leurs Origines, Leurs Cultures by Armand Millet

Philippine Colonial Democracy

The Middle East in the Twentieth Century

Citizens in Arms: The Army and the Militia in American Society to the War of 1812

The Problem of Icelandic Saga Origins: A Historical Survey

The Ford Model "A" "As Henry Built It": A Color, Upholstery and Production Facts Book

Home Life in Norway

The Cowhide Trunk

Harold Joe Waldrum: The Churches of Northern New Mexico

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

The Panama Canal

Indian Silver: Navajo and Pueblo Jewelers

Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Vienna Secession: Art Nouveau to 1970

Philip Pearlstein

Treasures of Catherine the Great: Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House

A Guide to the Exhibition of Japanese Screens, Portland Art Museum, March 1-29, 1964

Nihonga: Contemporary Japanese Paintings in the Traditional Style, with Vancouver, Washington Exhibition Brochure and Ticket Order Form

Cherokee Heritage Collection

Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg

Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven im Deutschland nach der Jahrhundertwende (Begleitheft)

Es werde Dunkel! Nachtdarstellungen in der zeitgenossischen Kunst

Unhadronische Materie: Rocklyrik und Gedichte / Unhadronic Matter: Rocklyrics and Poems

An Ode to Earth and Life: The World of Fang Zhaoling

Fabric Traditions of Indonesia

Luca Vidal: Contemporary Glass, Murano, 1276 . . . 2010 . . . la tradizione continua

Drowning With Others: Poems

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