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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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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 Practice14 books Tools & Workshops3 books Metals & Welding3 books Industrial Design10 books Railways & Bridges8 books Aviation & Flight19 books Automobiles & Motoring19 books Mining & Geology28 books Maritime Engineering9 books

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Books with a past.Chosen for their future.

The pleasure is inthe discovery.

Machines& Making

Recently shelved

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)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Planers and Planer Practice (No. 180)

Lathe Work, Book III (No. 179)

Drilling Machines and Practice (No. 176)

Drilling Machines and Practice (No. 176)

Oh! What a Pal Was Mary

Oh Baby (Don't Say No - Say Maybe)

I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)

Somebody Knows (And Somebody Cares)

Dve Srdecka (Two Hearts)

Old New England Moon

Oh! How She Lied (To Me)

An Old Guitar and an Old Refrain (A Song of Spain)

Pal-O (I Miss You Most of All)

Someone Is Losin' Susan (with Ukulele Arrangement)

You Taught Me To Care (Song)

Por Caminos del Peru (Hermanos Maristas, Lima, 1958)

Turing No. 78/357: Istanbul in the World Press (Turkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu Belleteni)

Nuts from Forest, Orchard, and Field

Post-War Friends: Paintings and Drawings by Peter Samuelson

Six Mehitabel Magpies for Soprano and Double Bass

Strikes in the Pacific Northwest, 1927-1940: A Statistical Analysis

Train Shed Cyclopedia No. 29: Freight Cars, 1892

The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami

The Island of Lanai: A Survey of Native Culture

The Great Detective

Love Will Tell

You'll Never Know

Full Moon and Empty Arms

Never on Sunday

The Loveliest Night of the Year

Tea For Two (from No No Nanette)

Skylark

That Certain Party

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