Welcome to Motte and Bailey

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

Square quarto (oversized). Exterior cardboard wraps have wear to edges and corners, and scuffing to coves (more so to back). SIGNED by Thomas Garbáty, the grandson of the founder of the firm, and dated 1999. Interior pages are very nice but sightly browned, and with original clear tissue guards between each page. Complete 224 card (52mm x 62mm) set, each full color matte finish with over 200 different borders of American and German actresses, with 24 others with a more ornate cut out design. Most actresses get only 1 card, white others like Garbo are on up to 4, and Renate Muller is on 7 . One of the most uncommon of the Garbáty card sets, with a unique association to the famiy firm. Galerie Schöner Frauen des Films [ Gallery of Beautiful Women of Film ] Cigarette Card Album.
Garbáty Zigarettenfabrik.
Berlin: Garbáty Zigarettenfabrik, 1936. Square quarto (oversized). Exterior cardboard wraps have wear to edges and corners, and scuffing to coves (more so to back)... more
Price: $375.00
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: $1,750.00
Amelia Bedelia.
Parrish, Peggy. Illustrated by Fritz Siebel.
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1963. Thin octavo (standard size). Dj and boards have light wear to edges, more so at corners and head and heel.. more
Price: $200.00
GIFT CERTIFICATE for Motte & Bailey Booksellers.
Ann Arbor: Motte & Bailey Booksellers. This allows you to purchase a gift certificate for Motte & Bailey Booksellers, which can be used in our shop.. more
Price: $25.00
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