A mid-century modern bookshop overlooking Manhattan Beach Pier

Independent booksellers · Since 1997

Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

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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

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

Thomas E. Mails (Exhibition Catalogue, Inscribed and Signed with an Original Drawing)

Kaukasische Teppiche: Ausstellung 17.11.-16.12.1962, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt

Burning Lights: Spirituality, Tradition and Craft in Recent Art from the City of Angels (John Frame, Laura Lasworth, Jan Saether, Michael Schrauzer)

Films and Filming, March 1980 (Vol. 26, No. 6, Issue No. 306): Eddie Kidd in Heavy Metal

Southern Cross 1959 Sleep Products, with Net Price List Effective December 5, 1958

Printed Books and Manuscripts including Literature and Fine Bindings: New York, October 7, 1994 (Sale VAILIMA-7964)

Reflections on Auckland Harbour

The Congress Book 1992: Fifty-Eighth American Philatelic Congress

De la feve de cacao au chocolat

The Innocents from Indiana

Wendy Artin: Aphrodite, October-November 2000

Willem de Kooning (The Great American Artists Series)

Dead Reckoning Altitude and Azimuth Table (H.O. No. 211)

Decision in Vienna: The Czechoslovak-Hungarian Border Dispute of 1938

Magic Valley: The Story of Hollywood Bowl

Richard Oelze: April 17 Through May 18, 1974

Paper Trail to Internment: Clippings From Seattle Area Newspapers Collected At The Time By Yoriko Watanabe Sasaki

Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia 1710-1790

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