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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INTERNATIONAL GRAFFITI TIMES, Vol. 1 - Jan. 1984
by [Street Art] [New York]
New York : IGT , 1984 (click for more details)THE VAMPIRE; or, The Bride of the Isles. A Romantic Melo-Drama in Two Acts, Preceded by an Introductory Vision
by Planché, James Robinson
Baltimore : J. Robinson , 1830 (click for more details)Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency" in THE ELECTRICIAN: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Electrical Engineering, Industry and Science, Volume XXVI: From November 7, 1890, to May 1, 1891
by Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)
London : George Tucker , 1891 (click for more details)
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MOMENTO PROGRAM AND OFFICIAL SCORE CARD, HARVARD-YALE FOOT BALL GAME, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. NOVEMBER 25, 1893
by [African Americana] [Football]
New York : Charles H. Nicoll , 1893 (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.
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.