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

With nine images of roses (some repeated) and one watercolor painting. The prints are hard and soft ground etchings, block-prints, air brushing, and hand-color. In Garamond, Castellar, and Script types.

Rosas: Roses Real and Imaginary, with Poems. Poems by Robert Herrick, Thomas Moore, William Blake and Edmund Waller, with other words, arrangements and prints by Susan Allix.
[ Allix, Susan, compiler and artist ].
London: 2009. With nine images of roses (some repeated) and one watercolor painting. The prints are hard and soft ground etchings, block-prints,.. more
Price: $4,950.00

Frontispiece and title within a printed red ruled border. With many woodcuts in text.

Bewick’s Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley’s. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To Which Are Prefixed The Life of Aesop, and an Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Gold
Aesop.
London: Bickers & Son [n.d., 1871]. Frontispiece and title within a printed red ruled border. With many woodcuts in text. .. more
Price: $750.00

Frontispiece and twenty-two mounted specimens of movable type (twenty facsimiles, two originals).

Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types.
McGovern, Melvin.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. Frontispiece and twenty-two mounted specimens of movable type (twenty facsimiles, two originals). .. more
Price: $3,750.00

Decorated with six maps and over six hundred coats-of-arms and devices of English, Scottish, and Irish princes and knights, drawn by Paul Woodroffe and hand-colored.

Froissarts Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders & Other Places Adjoynunge; Translated out of Frenche by Sir John Boucher, Lord Berners.
Froissart, [ Jean ].
Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, & published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1927-8. Decorated with six maps and over six hundred coats-of-arms and devices of English, Scottish, and Irish princes and knights, drawn.. more
Price: $2,000.00

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