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 Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony. Poems by Yves Peyré. English translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson. Drawings by Ray Rice. Bookwork by Felicia Rice.
Peyre, Yves.
[Santa Cruz, California:] Moving Parts Press, 2005.
Price: $4,800.00
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
Illustrated by Walter Crane with twelve full-page illustrations. Decorative borders on every page. The Shepheard's Calendar, Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman Most Worthy of All Titled Both of Learning & Chivaley Maister Philip Sidney.
[Bindings. Chivers, Cedric]. Spenser, Edmund.
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Illustrated by Walter Crane with twelve full-page illustrations. Decorative borders on every page. .. more
Price: $2,500.00
5" x 8." Concertina album, comprised of thirty-six leaves, each with a single or multiple paper-weaving patterns, most in blue and white, some with black added. Each pattern has a border of gilt beaded paper. Album of Paper Weaving examples prepared for children's instruction. European, possibly Scandinavian, circa 1880.
[Paper Weaving].
5" x 8." Concertina album, comprised of thirty-six leaves, each with a single or multiple paper-weaving patterns, most in blue.. more
Price: $750.00
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