Welcome to Motte & Bailey Booksellers

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Holiday Hours
Closed Saturday 4 July
Sunday  5 July  12 -4 p.m.
Monday 6 July  11-4 p.m.

We are a used and rare bookshop in Ann Arbor Michigan, with both more common and antiquarian books.  We focus on American and European history, Books About Books, children's books, and scholarly titles. We have 8500 books in all subjects, with over 2,700 catalogued on our site in over 50 catalogs. New arrivals are always listed here before we post them to the internet bookselling sites.

To keep our stock interesting and growing, we buy individual books or entire libraries across our region. Also, when you visit our shop and choose 2 of our books, you get a 3rd book priced $12 of less free, each and every day, any quantity.

We are one of the few remaining booksellers in our area who perform appraisals for estate, donation, or insurance purposes. See links to to your left for more information.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or if are looking for a hard to find book. If you prefer to call, our phone number is 734.669.0451. Our hours are Mon -Sat 10-7 p.m., closed Sundays. However, you may call for an appointment.

Featured Items

Insurance in Venice from the Origins to the End of the Serenissima. Documents Published for the 125th Anniversary of the Company, 1831-1956. Two Volumes.
Stefani, Giuseppe. Translated by Arturo Dawson Amoruso.
Trieste: 1958.. First translated edition. Two very good folio sized (oversized) hardcovers in biege cloth binding without dust jackets. Both volumes have.. more
Price: $140.00
Mugen-no-Michi (Art Unattainable) [ Noh Masks ]. Mugen-no-Michi (Art Unattainable) [ Noh Masks ].
Yuisei and Yuishu Mori. photos by Fumio Dodo, edited by Toru Ishikawa, introduction by Masaharu Gotoda, Chief of Cabinet Secretariat.
[probably Japan, ca. 1984 or 1985]. First (and only) edition. Very good in floral grey-blue cloth with medium brown floral designs, bound in the Japanese style.. more
Price: $250.00
Portraits of the Female Aristocracy of the Court of Queen Victoria. 2 vols. Portraits of the Female Aristocracy of the Court of Queen Victoria. 2 vols.
Finden, William.
London: J. Hogarth, 1849. After the first edition of 1839 and the second of 1841/42, enlarged in size and content. Good folio volumes in.. more
Price: $500.00
Orlando the Marmalade Cat : A Trip Abroad Orlando the Marmalade Cat : A Trip Abroad First edition, first printing
Hale, Kathleen O.B.E.
London: Country Life, 1939. Folio. Price clipped dj has tears at front bottom and at right front corners, and a pieces missing from lower.. more
Price: $500.00
Attempt to Investigate Some Obscure and Undecided Doctrines in Relation to Small-Pox [Smallpox], Varioloid and Vaccination.
Bell, Luther V.
Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1836. Fair octavo hardcover in brownish binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head.. more
Price: $150.00
An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics Together With an Account of Polyglot Bibles, Polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek Fathers, and the Latin Fathers. 4th An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics Together With an Account of Polyglot Bibles, Polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek Fathers, and the Latin Fathers. 4th
Dibdin, Reverend Thomas Frognall, D.D., F.R.S.
London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, Pall-Mall East; and G.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1827. Imperial octavo (oversized). Boards are 117/8" by 8 1/2", paper is 11"x 7 1/2" with wide margins. Lovely marbeled endpapers,.. more
Price: $1,650.00
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