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.
Browse this Seller’s Inventory
Recently Listed Items
THE UPPER PENINSULA LODGE DIRECTORY
by Petersen, Marcus
Marquette, Michigan : Petersen & Lovejoy, Publishers and Proprietors , 1891 (click for more details)DE LUXE CRAFT: YEARBOOK COVER IDEAS
by [Trade Catalogs]
Chicago : De Luxe Craft Manufacturing Co , 1950 (click for more details)STEPS AND PROCEDURES TO MINERAL PATENTS
by Bell Enterprises
Clovis, California : Bell Enterprises , 1982 (click for more details)
Signed
WHAT IS AIKIDO
by Tohei, Koichi
Tokyo : Rikugei Publishing House , 1974 (click for more details)GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR upon Upper California in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California: Newly Reprinted from the Edition of 1848 with Introductions by Allan Nevins and Dale L. Morgan and a Reproduction of the Map
by Frémont, John Charles
San Francisco : The Book Club of California , 1964 (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.