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 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.

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: $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: $1,850.00
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
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