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 - 13005 titles
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Newell, Jenny
Pacific Art in Detail
14.95 €
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De Gast, Robert
The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake
16.95 €
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James, Cary
Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel
25.00 €
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Greenblatt, Deborah
The Twin & Triple Fiddle Tune Book
25.00 €
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Papanikolaou, Miltiadis
The Wall-Paintings In The House of the Hellenic Parliament
65.00 €
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Hepper, F. Nigel (Editor)
Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens: Gardens for Science and Pleasure
16.95 €
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Beebe, Mary Livingston And Robert Storr, Joan Simon
Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego
30.00 €
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Taylor, Michael R.
Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics
35.00 €
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Neff, Emily Ballew, Pressly, William L.
John Singleton Copley in England
35.00 €
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Ojeda, Oscar Riera (Edt), Tsao, Calvin (Frw), El-Khoury, Rodolphe (Int), Gardner, Mark, Stephan, Jaklitsch
Stephan Jaklitsch: Habits, Patterns, and Algorithms 1998-2008
60.00 €
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Gordon, Marty, Van Den Bosch, Craig, Chad Yenney
Lost in Paste: a Collage Collaborative
67.50 €
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Farmer, Philip Jose, (Ed.) Burroughs, Edgar Rice, William L. Chester, Olaf Baker, George Bruce, Thomas Llewellan Jones
Mother Was a Lovely Beast: a Feral Man Anthology Fiction and Fact About Humans Raised By Animals
27.95 €
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