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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Signed First Edition
HISTORIC PASADENA: An Illustrated History
by Lund, Ann Scheid
San Antonio, Texas : Published for The Pasadena Historical Museum by Historical Publishing Network , 1999 (click for more details)SCULPTURED CROSSES OF ANCIENT IRELAND
by O'Neill, Henry
Boston : A.M. Hunt Company , 1916 (click for more details)
First Edition
ART, ANTI-ART, NON-ART: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
by Merewether, Charles with Rika Iezumi Hiro (Editors)
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute , 2007 (click for more details)
First Edition
LINE FORM COLOR
by Kelly, Ellsworth
Cambridge : Harvard University Art Museums , 1999 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
TIKI POP: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise
by Kirsten, Sven A.
Koln : Taschen , 2014 (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.