Welcome to Motte & Bailey Booksellers


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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

Weight Training for Championship Judo.
Draeger, Donn F. and Isao Inokuma.
Tokyo and Palo Alto: Kodansha International, 1966. Quarto (oversized). With original labelled cardboard slipcase and spine protector. Slight wear to edges of dj and boards. 1 small.. more
Price: $175.00
Thick quarto. Original binding. Page edges and endpapers marbled, gilt tooling to edges of boards. Slight wear to edges and corners. Slight scuffing to boards and spine. 1 pages with a wide crease near corner. Another page has 2 very small tears at foredge. 602 p. w/all plates , ads,and maps. An early classic war narrative of a major Confederate general officer, in very attractive condition with a more uncommon binding. Johnston's sometimes bitter reponse to his war critics and foes, notably Jefferson Davis. Tends to underestimate Confederate numbers and overestimate Union force figures. Howes J-167, Eicher 257. Dornbusch III 1399. Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States by Joseph E. Johnston.
Johnston, Joseph E.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1874. Thick quarto. Original binding. Page edges and endpapers marbled, gilt tooling to edges of boards. Slight wear to edges and.. more
Price: $200.00
Imperial octavo (oversized). Boards are 117/8" by 8 1/2", paper is 11"x 7 1/2" with wide margins. Lovely marbeled endpapers, with 2 new blank preliminary leaves in both volumes. Original half-titles in both volumes. Plate and specimen leaf (p. 166) present in vol. 1. Some foxing to first and last few original pages, diminishing quickly. Light fingermarks on upper corners of some pages. vol. 1 xiii, 562 p. vol. 2 579 p. w/ 1 p. corrigenda. Large paper copies limited to 250 (Dibdin's Reminscences, p. 213). Considered the best of the editions of this work, adding the best of both Hebrew bBbles and editions of the early church fathers. An attractive set. 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
Racing for the America's Cup : the Great Romance of Yachting History.
Kemp, Lieutenant Commander P. K., R.N.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1937. Octavo (standard size). Heavy wear and chipping to edges and corners of dj, with a few short closed tears. A.. more
Price: $85.00
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
Horned Giants : Hunting Eurasian Wild Cattle.
Brandt, Capt. John H. (USPHS ret.).
Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, Inc., 1996. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corner of slipcase and boards. SIGNED by author and numbered (199 of.. more
Price: $240.00
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