Pistil Books Online
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A proposito di questo venditore
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.
Catalogo del venditore - 12973 titoli
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Libri antichi e moderni
Gunn, Edward M.
Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking 1937-1945 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
45,00 €
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Conkelton, Sheryl, Thomas, Barbara
Never Late for Heaven
25,00 €
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Blaser, W.
Mies van der Rohe. Continuing the Chicago School of Architecture
65,00 €
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Myers, Robin, Harris, Michael (Editors)
A Genius for Letters: Booksellers and Bookselling from the 16th to the 20th Century
75,00 €
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Huang Zhongfang, Harold Wong
Kaikodo Journal: Unperturbed: The Art of Huang Zhongfang (Harold Wong)
35,00 €
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Libri antichi e moderni
Emmerling, Leonhard
Basquiat
12,56 €
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Vassilakis, Nico
Text Loses Time
56,75 €
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Libri antichi e moderni
Inoue, Mitsuo
Space in Japanese Architecture
69,95 €
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Libri antichi e moderni
Droste, Magdalena, Moortgat, Elisabeth, Carpenter, Richard, Scrima, Andrea
Bauhaus Archive Berlin: Museum of design, the collection
13,65 €
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Hoffman, Walter James
The graphic art of the Eskimos: Based upon the collections in the National Museum
75,00 €
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Libri antichi e moderni
Bartenev, I., Fyodorov, B. (Cook, Kathleen Trans.)
North Russian Architecture
47,95 €
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Libri antichi e moderni
Christeson, R.P.
Old Time Fiddler's Repertory: 245 Traditional Tunes
48,00 €
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