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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First Edition
TOMBSTONE'S EPITAPH
by Martin, Douglas D.
Albuquerque : The University of New Mexico Press , 1951 (click for more details)
First Edition
FRONTIER DEFENSE ON THE UPPER OHIO, 1777-1778: Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
by Thwaites, Reuben Gold, LL.D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph.D. (Editors)
Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society , 1912 (click for more details)THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA
by Browne, J. Ross
San Francisco : The Colt Press , 1944 (click for more details)
First Edition
RECORDS AND MAPS OF THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL
by Riddle, Kenyon
Raton, New Mexico : The Raton Daily Range , 1949 (click for more details)
First Edition
THE REVOLUTION ON THE UPPER OHIO, 1775-1777: Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
by Thwaites, Reuben Gold, LL.D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph.D. (Editors)
Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society , 1908 (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.