Content note: This conversation about preserving books and archival material includes discussions of historical racism.

I am so excited for another installment of my series interviewing booksellers. Typically, I’d hate to schedule an interview with someone whose store I hadn’t personally visited already, but I was eager to talk to the people behind Rare Books L.A., the semiannual festival of antique and unusual book finds that’s coming to Pasadena on February 21 and 22.

Brad and Jen Johnson are also the owners of Johnson Rare Books & Archives with a brick and mortar location at The Book Shop in Covina, California.

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