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Pistil Books Online

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About this seller

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.

Seller's catalogue - 13015 titles

  • Battle Born: Federal-State Conflict in Nevada During the Twentieth Century

    Rare and modern books

    Titus, A. Costandina

    Battle Born: Federal-State Conflict in Nevada During the Twentieth Century

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Guardians of the North-West Frontier: The Pathans

    Rare and modern books

    Singer, Andre

    Guardians of the North-West Frontier: The Pathans

     

    25.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Sellos precolombinos : imágenes estampadas de Costa Rica / Pre-Columbian …

    Rare and modern books

    Esquivel, Patricia Fernández

    Sellos precolombinos : imágenes estampadas de Costa Rica / Pre-Columbian Stamps: Stamped Images of Costa Rica

     

    45.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods

    Rare and modern books

    Andrews, Ralph W.

    Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods

     

    16.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary, Second Edition (Joint Association of …

    Rare and modern books

     

    Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary, Second Edition (Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course)

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises, Second Edition (Joint Association of …

    Rare and modern books

     

    Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises, Second Edition (Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course)

     

    45.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Indian Uses of Native Plants

    Rare and modern books

    Murphey, Edith Van Allen

    Indian Uses of Native Plants

     

    9.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Bleak House: A Norton Critical Edition

    Rare and modern books

    Dickens, Charles

    Bleak House: A Norton Critical Edition

     

    11.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856

    Rare and modern books

    Lecompte, Janet

    Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856

     

    30.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs : A Study …

    Rare and modern books

    Fenton, William N.

    The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs : A Study of a Mnemonic Cane from the Six Nations Reserve

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum

    Rare and modern books

    Jonaitis, Aldona (Ed.)

    Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum

     

    30.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from …

    Rare and modern books

    Broudy, Eric

    The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

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