Welcome to Motte and Bailey

We are a used and rare book firm with an open bookshop in Ann Arbor Michigan. We focus on pre-1900 American and European history, Books About Books, and scholarly titles. We have 10,000 books in all subjects, with over 2,800 catalogued on our site in over 60 catalogs. New arrivals are listed here before we post them to the internet bookselling sites. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or are looking for a book. If you prefer to call our phone number is 734.669.0451.

To keep our stock interesting and growing, we buy individual books or entire libraries. We also perform appraisals for estate, donation, or insurance purposes. See below for more information.

Featured Items

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz.
New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear.. more
Price: $15.00

English University Life in the Middle Ages.
Cobban, Alan B.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Very good octavo hardcover in black cloth binding without dust.. more
Price: $30.00

The Vikings.
Arbman, Holger. Translated by Alan Binns.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961.. 1st edition. Good hardcover in good price-clipped dust jacket. Wear.. more
Price: $15.00

Detroit Revisited: The Twentieth Century in Photographs by John Baldwin Thomas, Bill Rauhauser and Gene Meadows.
Desjarlais, Mary.
Royal Oak, MI: Group 3 Publishing, 2000. Very good quarto-sized softcover in black glossy covers. Light wear.. more
Price: $70.00

The French Defeat of 1940: Reassesments.
Blatt, Joel, editor.
Providence: Berghahn Books, 1998. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust.. more
Price: $40.00

Some European Railway Practices.
Jacobs, H. W.
Published by the author, 1913. Good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket... more
Price: $95.00