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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

Red Shadows in the Mist: The Indians, Grand Portage, The Big Lake, The Fur Trade

In the Palm of a Dale: A Portrait in Words and Pictures of a Yorkshire Dales Village at the Millennium's Turn

Nishinomiya-shi Otani Kinen Bijutsukan Shozohin Zuroku (Otani Memorial Art Museum Collection Catalogue)

Utopia Myopia: 36 Plays on a Page

Songs and Stories from Uganda

Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966

Dive: The Complete Book of Skin Diving

Prehispanic Art of Mexico (cover title: Pre-Spanish Art of Mexico)

The Way It Was: A Kaleidoscopic Look at Early Theatre in the Oregon Country

Victorian & Edwardian Architecture

The English Terraced House

Uriel Acosta: A Specimen of Human Life

The Raffi Singable Songbook: A Collection of 51 Songs from Raffi's First Three Records for Young Children

Lorena Owner-Built Stoves: A Construction Manual for Highly Efficient Low-Cost Stoves

C.M. Russell: The Mackay Collection, An Illustrated Catalog with Commentary

Fanny Elssler: The Pagan Ballerina

Un magicien, l'art du pastel / A Magician, the Art of Pastel

Les Impressionnistes et leurs Precurseurs: Exposition 17 mai - 17 juin 1972

The Mini-Bonsai Hobby

Shall Our Children Live or Die? A Reply to Lord Vansittart on the German Problem

The American Film Institute Salute to William Wyler: 1976 Life Achievement Award Press Kit

Sheffielder: A Life in the City

50 Neds: Ned Kelly, Icon of Australian Art

Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers

Surveying, Book III (No. 322C)

Mapping, Parts 1-2 (No. 323C)

Elements of Statics, Parts 1-2 (No. 325)

Walschaert and Baker Valve Gears (No. 504C)

Elements of Photogrammetry (No. 306)

True Meridian and Law for Surveyors (No. 292)

Boiler Details, Pipes and Fittings (No. 229B)

Gages, Jigs, and Fixtures (No. 190D)

Bench Work, Parts 1-2 (No. 186)

Grinding Equipment and Practice (No. 184)

Grinding Equipment and Practice (No. 184)

Milling-Machine Practice and Work (No. 183)

Milling Machines and Equipment (No. 182)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

Shaper, Slotter, and Boring-Mill Work (No. 181B)

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