Welcome to the home of Michael R Thompson Booksellers. We have books from the 15th to the 21st century and feature a stock strong in literature, history, Western philosophy, history of science, fine printing, and art. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and adhere to their high ethical standards.

Please search or browse our inventory of fine, antiquarian, and scholarly books. Use the links to peruse our recent catalogues, see descriptions of new arrivals, and learn more about our business and our services.

Our office is located in Los Angeles on West Third Street, between the Beverly Center and Farmer's Market. Though we gave up an open shop after more than thirty years, we welcome serious customers and dealers. Many of our less expensive books are located at home, so you may want to call us ahead of time to insure that the book you want to see will be available. We are normally open from 10 to 6 Monday through Saturday.

We do appraisals for income tax and insurance purposes, as well as for personal interest. We are always interested in purchasing individual books and libraries in our areas of interest.

Please feel free to write or call us about your book collecting needs.

Partners: Michael R. Thompson, Kathleen D. Thompson, Carol Sandberg

Featured Items

Featured Book A collection of seven offprints, several containing sixteen papers, chronicling their work on protein structure, 1951-55.
Pauling, Linus.

Price: $15,000.00
With thirty-five prints which include etching, block print, lino, photography, and digitally reproduced drawings. Printed letterpress in 18 pt. Bell, with a hand-cut metal title, on mould-made Somerset paper. Myth: Myths of the Greeks selected from accounts by Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Ovid and others. With prints by Susan Allix.
Allix, Susan.
[London:] 2011. With thirty-five prints which include etching, block print, lino, photography, and digitally reproduced drawings. Printed letterpress in 18 pt. Bell,.. more
Price: $6,750.00
[7] pages, fourteen wood engravings, wood engraved vignette on colophon. California Hills And Other Wood Engravings From the Original Blocks. Foreword by Arthur Millier.
Landacre, Paul.
Los Angeles: Bruce McAllister, 1931. [7] pages, fourteen wood engravings, wood engraved vignette on colophon. .. more
Price: $5,000.00
[204] pp., densely written in dark brown ink, on faintly lined paper, with numerous carefully drawn illustrations of machinery used in spinning, carding and weaving, together with some weaving patterns. The text illustrations are sometimes heightened in colors, and a few small illustrations are pasted in. In addition, there are some nine onlays of sketches of machinery on india paper. Cours de Filature. [-Cours de Tissage].
[Textiles.]
[n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1850]. [204] pp., densely written in dark brown ink, on faintly lined paper, with numerous carefully drawn illustrations of machinery used.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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