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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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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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century

Jaume Plensa

The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell

Reporting the Arts II: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976

God's Battleaxe: The Life of Lord President John Bradshawe (1603-1659)

Gente Bien Mexicana: 25 Years in Mexico

Playing Under the Gun: An Athlete's Tale of Survival in 1970s Chile

Wendy Artin: October-November 2001

Wendy Artin: Roma Antica, November 2002

Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World

Medieval Costume

Hitler and Munich: A Historical Guide to the Sights and Addresses of Munich Important to Adolf Hitler, His Followers and His Victims

The Negro in the Civil War

Percy Cochran's Corny History of the United States

The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars

Law and Warfare: Studies in the Anthropology of Conflict

Roman Law and Comparative Law

The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889

Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art

Ink-Line Sketching

Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

The Laxdale Saga

African Mythology

The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road

Antique Pewter of the British Isles: A Brief Survey of What Has Been Made in Pewter in England and the British Isles, from the Time of Queen Elizabeth I to the Reign of Queen Victoria

Curious Mechanical Movements

The Way to Game Abundance, With an Explanation of Game Cycles

Early American Furniture Makers: A Social and Biographical Study

The Eye of Eisenstaedt

Brassai

Campanile 1951: Silver Anniversary, Volume Twenty-Five (Woodrow Wilson High School Yearbook, Long Beach, California)

Stockholm i Narbild: Fran stormaktstiden till sekelskiftet

Olivier Debre i Norge (Olivier Debre in Norway)

L. Wolfe Gilbert's Great American Songs

Desert Magazine of the Southwest: Four Issues, August 1972, February 1976, April 1977, November 1977

Cameron Martin: analogue

First Flowerings: Early Virginia Quilts

Concepts, Modes, Systems

Beyond Winning: John Wooden (Daily Bruin Special)

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