Established in 1981, Johnson Rare Books & Archives offers a vast array of materials, with specialties in literature and poetry, California and the West, archives and archival material, vernacular photography, and heavy metal. Our bricks and mortar location in downtown Covina, The Book Shop, is about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The shop is open three days a week and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian.
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Brad JohnsonJen Johnson
134 North Citrus Ave.
Covina, CA 91723
brad@johnsonrarebooks.com
(626) 967-1888
http://www.johnsonrarebooks.com
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Signed First Edition
ACID TEST: Introduction by Dwight Macdonald
by Simon, John
New York : Stein and Day , 1963 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
I FEEL A SONG COMING ON: The Life of Jimmy McHugh
by Shipton, Alyn
Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 2009 (click for more details)
First Edition
LEGENDS AND LORE OF THE LONG AGO (Ventura County, California), Contributed by Club Women of Ventura County
by Mott, Mrs. D.W., et al.
Los Angeles : Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc , 1929 (click for more details)
First Edition
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN'S WORK: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
by Nelson, Naomi L., Lauren Reno, and Lisa Unger Baskin (Editors)
New York and Durham : The Grolier Club and Duke University , 2019 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
A TIME IN EDEN
by Dean, Roy
Los Angeles : Rho-Delta Press , 1969 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
BANANAS! A List of Unique Food & Drink Material
The Book Shop is pleased to offer a unique selection of culinary and mixology material. Highlights include an extensive early 20th century holographic cookbook, a Space Race-era educational piece on a different sort of rocket fuel (coffee), and a shipboard menu that is, well, bananas.
Recent Catalogs
BREAKING ALL THE RULES: Social Commentary in Modern American Board Games
Scholars have long recognized the link between games and learning. In this catalog we offer a wide variety of modern American board games that are unified by a common theme - they all carry some type of social commentary. Whether it was by accident or by design, these games are a reflection of cultural anxieties and changing social mores.