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
brad@johnsonrarebooks.com
(626) 967-1888
http://www.johnsonrarebooks.com
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Signed First Edition
THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS: Preface by Walter Alston, Introduction by Mayor Norris Poulson
by Zimmerman, Paul
New York : Coward-McCann, Inc , 1960 (click for more details)
First Edition
MIDNIGHT PLUS ONE
by Lyall, Gavin
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1965 (click for more details)
First Edition
DRAWINGS OF THE MALE NUDE
by Bachardy, Don
Pasadena, California : Twelvetrees Press , 1985 (click for more details)
First Edition
GESTA HENRICI QUINTI: The Deeds of Henry the Fifth
by Taylor, Frank and John S. Roskell
Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1975 (click for more details)
First Edition
HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once Known as Charmingfare; with Notices of Some of the Early Families
by Eaton, F.B.
Manchester, New Hampshire : Press of the Granite Farmer , 1852 (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.