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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Signed First Edition
A LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES L. DODGSON) IN THE LIBRARY AT DORMY HOUSE, PINE VALLEY, NEW JERSEY [with] A SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL
by Parrish, M.L.
Privately Printed , 1933 (click for more details)
First Edition
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: Translated from the Russian by R. Ainsztein
by Simonov, Konstantin
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc , 1962 (click for more details)THE WHEEL OF LIFE or SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY
by Wemyss, Maurice (pseudonym of Duncan MacNaughton, 1892-1973)
London : Modern Astrology Office , 1930 (click for more details)
Signed First Edition
JAPAN: PROSE OF DEPARTURE
by Merrill, James
New York : Nadja , 1987 (click for more details)
First Edition
ROCKWELL KENT: An Anthology of His Work
by Johnson, Fridolf (Editor)
New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 (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.