Welcome to Motte & Bailey Booksellers

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FEBRUARY SALE
Buy any one book, another for free!

Buy one book from our website and get another of equal or lesser value free,
with free shipping in the Continental US.

**Prices will be adjusted on checkout

We will run this sale til the end of the month.

Only consignment books are excluded, and most of them are listed here:
Signed Doherty (mysteries)
Any Garbrah book (notes in the description)
Cormac MacCarthy / Cities on the plain
Domestic French Cookery
Draft Riots NY 1863

Any questions, feel free to drop us a note.


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 10,000 books in all subjects, with over 2,400 catalogued on our site in over 50 catalogs. New arrivals are always listed here before we post them to the internet bookselling sites.


Buy Three and Get a Deal Offer Everyday
To keep our stock interesting and changing, we buy individual books or entire libraries across our region. To help make room and to say thanks for coming in, when you visit our shop and buy 3 books, the cheapest of the three is free if it is $12 or less. If all the books are priced over $12, you still get $10 off. And it works for 6 books, for 9 books, etc.

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
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: $175.00
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
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: $85.00
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: $1,300.00
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