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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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 Design10 books Railways & Bridges7 books Aviation & Flight12 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

Persia, the Land of the Gulestan or Rose Garden; Nomading South of the Equator

Erik XIV: Drame en Quatre Actes

Don't Sweetheart Me

One Two Three Jump (Right Into My Arms)

The Glow-Worm: Modern Version by Johnny Mercer

Museo dell'Olivo (English edition)

Children of the Northlights

Manhattan Beach, California (Images of America)

Little Sisters, Volume 1: Stories by Talented New Mystery Writers

Pandas (A Preschool Puppet Book)

Teddy Bear at the Zoo (A Golden Book Panorama)

A Hundred and One Song Lyrics, with Portraits of Famous Singing Stars

Wild Grape

Eine Leidenschaft fur Rohre: Die Geschichte der Standard-Metallwerke GmbH, Werl

Harry Elmer Barnes, Learned Crusader: The New History in Action

The History of a Gothenburg House of Merchants

The Iron Man of the Hoh: The Man, Not the Myth

Riemko Holtrop: Pionier in de doorbraak van de moderne kunst na 1945

Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford

The Rolls-Royce Companion

The Singapore Show: Future Proof

The Story of Louis de Rochemont's Windjammer: Including The School of the Sea and Sailing a Square-Rigger

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

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