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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

  • Pacific Art in Detail

    Rare and modern books

    Newell, Jenny

    Pacific Art in Detail

     

    14.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake

    Rare and modern books

    De Gast, Robert

    The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake

     

    16.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel

    Rare and modern books

    James, Cary

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel

     

    25.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • The Twin & Triple Fiddle Tune Book

    Rare and modern books

    Greenblatt, Deborah

    The Twin & Triple Fiddle Tune Book

     

    25.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • The Wall-Paintings In The House of the Hellenic Parliament

    Rare and modern books

    Papanikolaou, Miltiadis

    The Wall-Paintings In The House of the Hellenic Parliament

     

    65.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens: Gardens for Science and Pleasure

    Rare and modern books

    Hepper, F. Nigel (Editor)

    Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens: Gardens for Science and Pleasure

     

    16.95 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection at the University …

    Rare and modern books

    Beebe, Mary Livingston And Robert Storr, Joan Simon

    Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego

     

    30.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics

    Rare and modern books

    Taylor, Michael R.

    Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • John Singleton Copley in England

    Rare and modern books

    Neff, Emily Ballew, Pressly, William L.

    John Singleton Copley in England

     

    35.00 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Stephan Jaklitsch: Habits, Patterns, and Algorithms 1998-2008

    Rare and modern books

    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 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Lost in Paste: a Collage Collaborative

    Rare and modern books

    Gordon, Marty, Van Den Bosch, Craig, Chad Yenney

    Lost in Paste: a Collage Collaborative

     

    67.50 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

  • Mother Was a Lovely Beast: a Feral Man Anthology Fiction …

    Rare and modern books

    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 €

    Pistil Books Online (United States of America)

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