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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De Brunhoff, Laurent
Babar and the Wully Wully
35.00 €
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Duncan, Paul, O'Dwyer, Shane
Beautiful People
175.00 €
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Lowe, John
Working Methods: Comic Creators Detail Their Storytelling and Artistic Processes
26.50 €
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Hammett, Dashiell
Continental Op, The
35.00 €
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Gaskell, Jane
Dragon, The
18.50 €
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Brautigan, Richard
Confederate General from Big Sur, A
14.95 €
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Leonard, Elmore
Fifty-two Pickup
27.50 €
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Davidson, Avram, Ray Bradbury (Intro)
Strange Seas and Shores
19.50 €
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Blade, Alexander, S.M. Tenneshaw, Randall Garrett, Mark Reinsber, G, Robert Silverberg
Imagination Science Fiction, June 1957 (Volume 8, No. 3)
16.50 €
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Dick, Philip K., Lesser, Milton, Mack Reynolds, Irving Cox, Will, Iam F. Temple
Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy, July 1955 (Volume 6, No. 7)
65.00 €
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Robert Donald Locke, Philip K. Dick, Malcolm Morehart, Daniel Galouye, Irving Cox Jr., , Milton Lesser
Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy, January, 1953 (Volume 4, No.1 )
17.95 €
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Kirby, Jack, Simon, Joe, Kurtzman, Harvey, Martin Bradley, Frank Edgington, Louis Zansky
Teen-Aged Dope Slaves and Reform School Girls
39.50 €
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