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
UTOPIA AND ANTI-UTOPIA IN MODERN TIMES
by Kumar, Krishan
Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1987 (click for more details)
First Edition
THE LAST PAGAN: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World
by Murdoch, Adrian
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing , 2003 (click for more details)
First Edition
LATE MARXISM: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic
by Jameson, Fredric
London and New York : Verso , 1990 (click for more details)
First Edition
MARXISM AND TOTALITY: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas
by Jay, Martin
Cambridge : Polity Press , 1984 (click for more details)
First Edition
THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF SAINT IGNATIUS: A Translation and Commentary by George E. Ganss, S.J.
by St. Ignatius
St. Louis : The Institute of Jesuit Sources , 1992 (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.