Pistil Books Online
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A propos de ce vendeur
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.
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Livres anciens et modernes
Timothy Stabler, Peter Zao, Lori Smith, Greta Peterson, Andrew Lokuta
PhysioEx 7.0 for Anatomy & Physiology: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology
17,95 €
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Dreyfus, John, Erickson, Knut (Eds.)
ABC-XYZapf: Fifty years in alphabet design : professional and personal contributions selected for Hermann Zapf
145,95 €
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David Matthews, Mohamed Kasim Dalvi
Teach Yourself Urdu Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)
34,95 €
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Harry Hunkin
There is No Finality. A Story of the Group of Seven
18,50 €
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Johnson-Dean, Christina
The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff- Schleicher (The Unheralded Artists of BC)
34,95 €
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Raimondo d'Aronco in Turchia, (1893-1909). Progetti della Galleria di Arte Moderna di Udine / Udine Çagdas Sanat Galerisi Koleksiyonundan Raimondo d'Aronco'nun Türkiye yillari, (1893-1909)
75,00 €
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Brown, Adrienne
The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb (Unheralded Artists of BC) (The Unheralded Artists of BC)
52,95 €
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Livres anciens et modernes
Wallace, Keith
Gordon Smith; Recent Work
44,50 €
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Livres anciens et modernes
Baud, Claude, Irene Brice, Michel Jacot
Art Inuit: La Sculpture Et L'estampe Contemporaines Des Esquimaux Du Canada / Contemporary Sculpture and Print of the Canadian Eskimo
75,00 €
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Sanders, Franklin
At Home in Dogwood Mudhole: Volume Two; Best Thing We Ever Did
45,95 €
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Livres anciens et modernes
Munro, Alice
Friend of My Youth
35,00 €
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Trottier, Maxine
Flags
14,95 €
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