Pistil Books Online
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Introducing Pistil Books, Independent Bookstore since 1993 Pistil Books & News opened in 1993 on Capitol Hill, an eclectic urban neighborhood in Seattle, and operated as a brick and mortar store for nearly eight years, selling used and new books in all categories with an inventory of around 25,000, as well as periodicals and zines. During this time we also hosted readings, art shows, participated in book fairs, and were known for our support of alternative publications and culture. We started selling books online around 1999. In 2001 we lost our lease and became an online-only business, Pistil Books Online. We moved our inventory from our storefront into our newly renovated office/warehouse on the ground floor of our 1903 house, also in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. As an online store, we deal almost exclusively in used books with an inventory of around 14,000 and we sell on about ten bookselling sites, including our own website, www.pistilbooks.net. We carry books in all categories, mostly non-fiction, with an emphasis on art, architecture, vintage children's books, how-to, northwest, and a little bit of everything else. In addition to Pistil Books owners Sean and Amy, we have two part-time staff: Sean’s brother, Troy, who handles all the packing and shipping, and Kam, our book photographer and music book cataloger, who also handles orders while we are away. We chose the name Pistil Books because we liked the play of the word pistil, a female flower part, versus pistol, a gun. A homophone with two very different meanings. From the sound of the word, it’s unclear which pistil/pistol we are. As a part of a flower, pistil evokes the idea of growing, living, flowering… and in the case of books, flowering knowledge. A slogan for Pistil Books (it’s printed on our bookmarks) is “Seed your head.” We have used flowers as a theme for our business—our retail store had a stained glass sunflower window, as well as a colorful flower mosaic we made on the floor (it’s still there—though our old retail storefront is now a burrito joint). We now have flower mosaics around the exterior door of our office/warehouse, a lovely vintage three-dimensional scientific model of a pistil on a shelf above my desk, and a flower/bee/knowledge theme on our website. We are proud members of the IOBA, Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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Libros antiguos y modernos
Zee Wen, Ma Yueh-Liang
Wu Style Taichichuan Tuishou (Push-hands)
45,00 €
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Hershenson, Bruce (Editor)
Who Goes There?: 1950'S Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Posters & Lobby Cards
50,00 €
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Martin, Don
Mad's Don Martin Carries on
16,50 €
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Milnei, A.A. (Milne, A.A.)
Winnie Ille Pu
16,50 €
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Hettich, Ernest L. Maitland, A.G.C.
Latin Fundamentals
14,95 €
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Staff, Cumming, Anna, Maria Whitlock Blundell (Eds.)
Auricula Meretricula
14,95 €
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Pliny, Betty Radice (Translator)
Pliny: A Self-Portrait in Letters
25,00 €
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William Carlos Williams
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
9,50 €
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Stern, Fritz
Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History
14,95 €
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Kockelmans, Joseph J. (Ed.) Jan Aler, Walter Biemel, Otto Poggel, Er, Henri Birault, Werner Marx, Erasmus Schofer, Johannes Lohman, N
On Heidegger and Language (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series)
24,95 €
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Brunner, John (Author), Anderson, Poul (Author)
Threshold of Eternity / The War of Two Worlds, Volume D-335 (Ace Double)
25,00 €
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Van Vogt, A. E., Murray Leinster
The Weapon Shops of Isher / Gateway to Elsewhere (Classic Ace Double D-53)
12,95 €
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