Mystery Pier Books, Inc.

Underground LA: Exploring the city’s hidden haunts
by EllaBuchan 
The glitz, gloss and glamour of Hollywood is all very well, but to find the real Los Angeles you have to scratch beneath the surface, open unmarked doors and wander down unassuming alleyways. From hidden boozers to secret rooftop gardens and a network of tunnels used during Prohibition, here’s how to see underground...

Here's the link for Eye On LA which stared Mystery Pier Books.

Interview by Scott Laming

If you were a famous Hollywood star looking for a sophisticated gift or, as is more likely for the majority of us, perhaps you happended to be a serious book lover in the LA area, you would eventually find your way to Mystery Pier Books.

Turn off Sunset Boulevard onto a stone path, through blooming flowers, to a....

Mystery Pier Books: The Collector’s Choice
Published on June 3rd, 2015
Written by: windsor

Mystery Pier Books has been in business for ages, and one visit will convince you that it’s something special. Head down the well-hidden entryway and wind through a narrow passageway to the store, which looks a bit like a transplanted English cottage surrounded by flower beds. Step inside and...

MYSTERY PIER BOOKS featured as one of the four 'Hidden Gems of Los Angeles' in the March 2015 issue of the Alaska Airlines Magazine (others being the Annenberg Space For Photography, the Huntington, and Amoeba Music). Article reads: "(This) literary gem is hidden away on Sunset Boulevard in an old house. Inside, you'll find a first-edition bookstore where rare volumes...

Just found out today - 25 November 2014 - from a Delta Airlines pilot who came in this morning - that Mystery Pier Books was featured in the Delta Airlines magazine as a highly recommended Los Angeles treasure trove of First Editions.  We're very flattered, and most appreciative.

MACHIAVEL, Nicolas
[Machiavelli] The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavell, Citizen and Secretary of Florence
London: Starkey, Harper, Amery (1680)
$13,500.

Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly & faithfully translated into English.

The highly sought-after, incredibly scarce literary collectible by the father of modern political thought. Folio. Eleven works in one. Complete with general title and separate title for each work. Woodcut chapter...

Back in the day, wa-aay back, William Faulkner was working in Hollywood for MGM, toiling at screenplays. One day he asked the MGM head if, instead of coming to the studio, it would be okay to work from home. The executive agreed, and Faulkner walked off the lot. A couple of days later, they tried to reach him at his...

DICKENS, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
London: Chapman & Hall, (1839)
$7,450.

London: Chapman and Hall, (1839).  The truly rare original monthly parts, twenty in the true nineteen parts.  An extraordinarily sought-after, valuable, collectible addition to one's library.  Presented and protected in a splendid green half-oasis morocco leather and marbled custom clamshell box with single  rule to board gilt , raised...