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
THE CITY AND THE PILLAR REVISED, Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and An Afterword
by Vidal, Gore
New York : E.P. Dutton , 1965 (click for more details)
First Edition
THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN ARISTOCRACY: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire
by Salzman, Michele Renee
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 2002 (click for more details)
First Edition
ENNIUS: Sept Exposes Suivis de Discussions
by Skutsch, Otto, H.D. Jocelyn, J.-H. Waszink, E. Badian, Jurgen Untermann, Peter Wulfing-von Martitz, and Werner Suerbaum
Genève or Geneva : Vandoeuvres , 1972 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
SPEAKING OUT FOR PERSONAL JUSTICE: Site Summaries of Testimonies and Witnesses Registry from the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings, 1981
by Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aiko and Marjorie Lee (Editors)
Los Angeles : UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Civil Liberties Public Education Fund , 2011 (click for more details)
First Edition
DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY: A Play
by Spark, Muriel
London : Macmillan & Co Ltd , 1963 (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.