Motte & Bailey Booksellers

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Welcome to Motte and Bailey

We are a used and rare bookshop in Ann Arbor Michigan, with both more common and antiquarian books priced from $6 on up. We focus on American and European history, Books About Books, children's books, and scholarly titles. We have 8500 books in all subjects, with over 3,000 catalogued on our site in over 50 catalogs. New arrivals are always listed here before we post them to the internet bookselling sites.

To keep our stock interesting and growing, we buy individual books or entire libraries across our region. Also, when you visit our shop and choose 2 of our books, you get a 3rd book priced $12 of less free, everyday, any quantity.

We are one of the few remaining booksellers in our area who perform appraisals for estate, donation, or insurance purposes. See links to to your left for more information.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or if are looking for a had to find book. If you prefer to call our phone number is 734.669.0451. Our hours are Mon -Sat 10-7 p.m., closed Sundays but you may call for an appointment.

Featured Items

The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War 1600 - 1815.

London: Conway Maritime Press, 1987. Sqaure quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards, a bit more at lower edges of.. more

Varieties of Unbelief : Atheists and Agnostics in English Society 1850 - 1960.

London: Heinemann, 1977. Octavo 9standad size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Heel of spine slightly bumped. 307 p... more

GIFT CERTIFICATE for Motte & Bailey Booksellers.
Ann Arbor: Motte & Bailey Booksellers. This allows you to purchase a gift certificate for Motte & Bailey Booksellers, which can be used in our shop.. more

A Method of Horsemanship, Founded Upon New Principles Including the Breaking and Training of Horses with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat.
Baucher, F. [ Francois ] .
Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1852. Octavo. Slight fading to spine. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Bumping to corners, head and heel of.. more

Doctor to the Front : The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861 - 1865.
Wood, Thomas Fanning. Edited by Donald B. Koonce.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Printer's stamp.. more

Up and Down the Line : The Centennial History of the Angelina & Neches River Railroad.

Lufkin, TX: Best of East Texas Publishers, 2000. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 232 pages.. more

Astronomy & Space
Australia & New Zealand

Business, Economics & Labor

Cooking & Culinary History
Depression Era US

Ghosts & Horror Fiction
Gilded Age (US)

History & Historiography

Immigrants and Ethnic Groups (US)

Judaism & the Jews
Languages & Linguistics
Latin American History & Studies
Law & Crime

Literature, Poetry, & Classics
Magic & Magicians

Naval & Nautical History

Renaissance & Reformation
Revolutionary Era America
Rome & Roman World
Russia & the Soviet Union
Science & Technology
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sciences & Technology
Scotland & the Scottish

Sports & Games
State & Regional History
Theater & Drama

I heard his library burned down and that both books were destroyed-and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. -- John Dawkins