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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SATANIC PANIC: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
by Janisse, Kier-La and Paul Corupe (Editors)
Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom : FAB Press Ltd , 2016 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
THE LIGHT WHICH CANNOT FAILT: True Stories of Heroic Blind Men and Women and A Handbook for the Blind and Their Friends
by Holt, Winifred
New York : E.P. Dutton , 1922 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
WISH YOU WERE HERE..
by Mermis, John Edward or Long Gone John
Olympia, Washington : Sympathetic Press , 2016 (click for more details)
First Edition
VIRGINS & VAMPIRES: Edited by Peter Blumenstock
by Rollin, Jean
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany : Crippled Dick Hot Wax , 1997 (click for more details)
First Edition
NAPOLEON AND UNCLE ELBY, with an Introduction by Don Herold
by McBride, Clifford
New York : Robert M. McBride and Company , 1945 (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.