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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First Edition
THE LANDMARKS CLUB COOK BOOK: A California Collection of the Choicest Recipes from Everywhere, Including a Chapter of the Most Famous Old Californian and Mexican Dishes
by Lummis, Charles F., et al.
Los Angeles : The Out West Company , 1903 (click for more details)
First Edition
CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO
by Walls, Jim
Berkeley, California : Howell-North , 1960 (click for more details)
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, relative to The claim of Texas to jurisdiction over part of New Mexico
by Fillmore, Millard
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office , 1850 (click for more details)
First Edition
A VISIT TO THE MISSION INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER WESTERN TRIBES
by Painter, Prof. C.C.
Philadelphia : The Indian Rights Association , 1886 (click for more details)
A PUBERTY CEREMONY OF THE MISSION INDIANS
by Rust, Horatio N.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania : The New Era Printing Company , 1906 (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.