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 Lettres à Son Altesse Royale le Duc regnant de Saxe-Coburg et Gotha sur la théorie des probabilités, appliquée aux science morales et politiques.
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques.
Brussels: M. Haney, 1846.
Price: $3,000.00
With seven pages of early manuscript notes at the end. Greek and roman letter, in an elegant layout, with the Greek text occupying the upper half of the page, with the Latin translation underneath, and a Greek commentary at the foot. Second part in double columns, in Latin, with references in Greek. Printer's device on first title, decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Tragoediae Septem.
Sophocles.
Geneva: Paul Estienne, 1603. With seven pages of early manuscript notes at the end. Greek and roman letter, in an elegant layout, with the.. more
Price: $8,500.00
Broadside. Matted and framed, to 23 1/2" x 32 1/2." The title "Color" in a multi-color design across the top of the page, twenty hand-painted color swatches in Windsor-Newton Designers Gouache by the Typography class at Scripps College, each color with accompanying handset text in various typefaces. Printed on Somerset Satin. Color. [Broadside].
[ Scripps College Press ].
[Claremont, California:] Scripps College Press, 1987]. Broadside. Matted and framed, to 23 1/2" x 32 1/2." The title "Color" in a multi-color design across the top.. more
Price: $600.00
Hand-set in Bembo and printed on 200 gsm Arches Cover. Title-page with photogravure vignette and pochoir lettering in red. Fifteen photogravures by Jon Goodman from drawings by Walter Bachinski, one to illustrate each of the fifteen selections from Ovid's work. Pochoir initial letters in red on a gray background, by Walter Bachinski. Stories from the Metamorphoses. Illustrations by Walter Bachinski. [
[ Shanty Bay Press ]. Ovid.
[Shanty Bay, Ontario:] Shanty Bay Press, 2013. Hand-set in Bembo and printed on 200 gsm Arches Cover. Title-page with photogravure vignette and pochoir lettering in red. Fifteen.. more
Price: $3,500.00
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