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.

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I heard his library burned down and that both books were destroyed-and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. -- John Dawkins
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