Rare books are having a moment in the spotlight. In the past year, major auction houses have seen record-breaking sales for first editions, landmark historical texts and medieval manuscripts, including...
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Valeria Luiselli discusses her new book ‘Beginning Middle End,’ about memory and imagination. Plus, we visit Whitmore Rare Books in Pasadena.
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Nosing around a book fair for inspiration, a reporter found a firsthand account of one of humanity's gravest acts, with traces of a journalist's hand.
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Many people have a pretty romantic notion of running a rare book shop: they imagine that we come in to work each day, grab a favorite book (and a cup...
Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook that's now for sale.
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A block north of Colorado Boulevard at the northwest corner of Pasadena’s Union Street and Arroyo Parkway stands Whitmore Rare Books.
If you’ve never noticed it, don’t fret — it’s...
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Dan Whitmore went to law school because it seemed like the next logical step. But along the way, he stumbled onto a first edition of a novel -...
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A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio. An out-of-print tome sits beside a scribbled screenplay. This last weekend, Rare Books L.A. transformed Union Station’s historic ticket hall into...
Tattered and stained, the World War II Navy artifact was saved from the trash at a California air base and then forgotten.
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Antiquarian book dealer Dan Whitmore began his career as an attorney. The Pasadena native graduated with a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and worked at the prestigious law...
Whitmore Rare Books has released their Catalogue 23. While the catalogue is untitled, they specialize in important literary works. The vast majority are written by names you know, and they...
Jane Marcet wasn’t a chemist. She wasn’t a physicist or a biologist or an astronomer – but she probably made a bigger contribution to science than anyone else in the...
In my hands I held a copy of “Les Fleurs du Mal,” by Charles Baudelaire, certainly one of the most famous books of French poetry. And it was not just...
There is a certain indescribable but instantly recognizable aura surrounding an independent bookstore. It’s even...
TOMES features a look at 25 artist books from the 1970s and 1980s, emphasizing the works’ poetic and emotional message.
These unique works challenge the notion of the book beyond...
Whitmore Rare Books in Pasadena feels almost like a library, there’s dark wood furniture, leather couches and Midcentury Modern accents throughout the space. But the real treasures are on the...
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May 18, Saturday, 3-4 p.m., Vroman’s Bookstore, courtyard
Great independent bookstores deserve our admiration—and our money. They host readings with famous and up-and-coming authors, provide a space to meet and...
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There are countless books at the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, of course, but also ephemera of all kinds: posters, pamphlets, calendars, playing cards. The price tags can...
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Rockwell Kent was on my mind owing to our new spring issue’s feature story about the time when Rockwell Kent, Rex Stout, and Egmont Arens teamed up to publish Casanova’s memoir...
Visitors to the Park Avenue Armory‘s Wade Thompson Drill Hall this weekend found the vast space transformed into a veritable cabinet of curiosities thanks to the arrival of the New York International...
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We interviewed Annie Locke Scherer '08, Mackenzie Sikora '13, and Dan Whitmore '99, to learn more about the rewards and challenges of their work, as well as how they are...
At Whitmore Rare Books in Pasadena, wooden cabinets line the walls, displaying books that you may have only dreamed about.
“You’ll get to see and touch and interact with material...
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Every year, the arrival of the Armory Show sets New York City buzzing with satellite fairs, art parties, events, and more. Among the shows not to miss is the New York...
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A lightly worn copy of the National Woman Suffrage Association’s 1876 Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States is for sale ($37,500) through Whitmore Rare Books in Pasadena, Calif...
How is a bibliophile made? How is it that a seemingly reasonable person decides to surround himself/herself with books, beautiful books that clutter whatever space is available as though it’s...
Many books are rare—but according to Dan Whitmore, owner of Whitmore’s Rare Books in Pasadena, that doesn’t necessarily make them valuable. So how does a lawyer-turned-book dealer decide what to...
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Recently, a new trend has emerged, with the five ABAA members below opening new stores or significantly expanding their existing ones.
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… gallery or boutique that has the exact thing you must have that you didn’t know you needed — perhaps a special first edition or a signed Harry Potter book...
Written 10 years before the book that defined the Beat Generation, appeal for a $25 sub is now on sale in California for $22,500
He may have been the godfather...
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Beyond teaching us how to produce an impressive coq au vin or how to pair the right wine with the right oyster, culinary books and manuscripts provide insight into the...
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Rare book dealers sometimes appear as characters in movies and novels -- but what do they really do? Dan Whitmore and Miranda Garno Nesler of Whitmore Rare Books open the...
After four years as an assistant professor of Shakespeare studies, Miranda Garno Nesler left the tenure track and leveraged her advanced degree to participate in a wide variety of fields...
What could be more mysterious than a book? Even the authors sometimes don’t know where one comes from.
USC professor Percival Everett has written 30 of them, and he told...
Steps from the crowds of holiday shoppers streaming into Forever 21 and the Apple Store in Pasadena, in a second-floor walk-up, a trove of unique offerings waits for book lovers...
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Today we’d like to introduce you to Dan Whitmore.
Dan, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I founded Whitmore Rare Books...
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It's hard to Dan Whitmore L'08 to pick his favorite sale as a rare books dealer.
But when pressed, he'll tell you about his biggest transaction - copy number six...
Dan Whitmore is a book dealer in southern California. He is 35 and never experienced the halcyon days of bookselling two decades ago. He was in high school then and...
Antiquarian book collector and dealer, Dan Whitmore, isn't your average rare bookseller. As a young, dashing 30-something, he brings a novel approach on what it really takes to make it...
It is often said that all of literature can be derived from only seven stories. If that’s true, then the seeds of Dan Whitmore’s dream business—a rare- book dealership based...
In the dark economic times of 2009, Dan Whitmore decided to give up being a lawyer in downtown Los Angeles to sell antiquarian books. "People in the firm thought I....
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You can almost always find a corresponding book to someone’s interests – with a little help from our friends at Whitmore Rare Books. Whitmore is a luxury rare book specialist...
This month we received our first catalogue from Whitmore Rare Books of Pasadena, California. Whitmore Rare Books is operated by Dan Whitmore, one of many in the trade who made...
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I am a reader. I loved reading literature from an early age and realized during college, that I didn’t have the time to read all the books that I wanted...
When I visited the Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair two weeks ago (recap here), I met young bookseller Daniel Whitmore of Whitmore Rare Books, Pasadena, CA. I was glad...