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
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(626) 967-1888
http://www.johnsonrarebooks.com
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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)
First Edition
SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE. Twelve Chapters
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co , 1870 (click for more details)
First Edition
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE
by Renn, Ludwig
New York : Dodd, Mead & Company , 1937 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
CHANTIES IN GREEK AND LATIN: Written for Ancient Traditional Airs
by Rouse, W. H. D.
Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1922 (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.