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
CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND: An Illustrated Essay by John Leighly, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, with Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island, 1622-1785
by Leighly, John
San Francisco : The Book Club of California , 1972 (click for more details)
REYNARD THE FOX: After the German Version of Goethe, by Thomas James Arnold, Esq. With Illustrations from the Designs of Wilhelm von Kaulbach
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
New York : D. Appleton and Co , 1860 (click for more details)
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM ELLIS METFORD
by Brunel, Henry Marc (1842-1903) and Thomas Francis Fremantle (1862-1956)
London 1900 (click for more details)
THE QUEENS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
by Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Philadelphia : Porter & Coates , 1873 (click for more details)
STATE OF WASHINGTON: The Gate-Way to the Orient
by [Americana]
Spokane, Washington : Inland Printing Co , 1904 (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.