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 Design10 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight13 books Automobiles & Motoring18 books Mining & Geology27 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

Images on Stone: The Prehistoric Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau

Renaissance and Cavalier Dance: English Country Dances, Instruction Book

Arabic Recipes & History for Medieval Feasts

Dances from Shakespeare's Time: School Music for Guitar and Recorders

30 New Champion Delmarva Chicken Recipes

My Dear Italian Mother's Peasant Recipes

Lustreware of Spain

Salmon & Trout Fishing Up to Date

Wings: The A B C of Flying

The Laughter of Love: A Study of Robert Burns

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Chicago: A More Intimate View of Urban Politics

Game Fishing in the West

Here They Dug the Gold

St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen

Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man

The Mafia and Politics

Soviet Theatre: New Ideas

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Volume Two

The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yu

My Favorite Recipes

Art Treasures from Japan: A Special Loan Exhibition in Commemoration of the Signing of the Peace Treaty in San Francisco, September 1951

Geographia New Map of England & Wales Showing Counties in Colours [Folding Map on Cloth]

Little Black Sambo [Platt & Munk No. 3100-B]

Vancouver City Guide 1923-1924: Complete Street Directory with All Intersecting Streets, Street Car Routes, etc. and Miscellaneous Information

The British Isles: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - Edition for 1948

Wheat Gems: Wheat Recipes by Oregon Wheathearts

The Presumptuous Dreamers: A Sociological History of the Life and Times of Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915). Volume One, 1834-1871

Scientific Alteration of Women's Apparel

Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan: Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art - Japanese-language publisher's brochure

Adventures of Benjamin Beetle [Play]

Sea Frontiers, Bulletin / Magazine of the International Oceanographic Foundation - seven issues, 1960-1963

A Brave Little Tomboy: A Play of the Revolution

Modern Chinese Commemorative Gold and Silver Coins and Medals Pictorial, Vol. 2, 1988-1990

French Folk Art: An Exhibition Organized by the French National Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Concerning Christopher: Fun with a Parrot

Clark County Boys in Blue

The Woods of Wicomico

Edward Gordon Craig: A B I Books Catalogue of 338 Items

The G.-Albert Petit Collection of Angling Books. Christie's South Kensington, 8 October 1999, Sale BKS-8635

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