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 be eye-popping — by the end of a stroll around the fair, $2,500 for a beautiful old deck of cards...

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 Antiquarian Book Fair.

The fair, which marked its 59th anniversary this year, brings together bibliophiles, scholars and browsers..

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 that you wouldn’t be able to find anywhere, other than a museum or a library or a major private collection,”...

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. No one knows which original owner may have folded it in her purse for safekeeping; a handful of other examples..

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 carry in his shop?

“Whitmore Rare Books has been focused on exceptional copies of the literary high spots since...

… 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 from Whitmore Rare Books. “We provide a world-class inventory or rare books and manuscripts at our Old Pasadena location,…

Today we’d like to introduce you to Miranda Garno Nesler.

Miranda Garno, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I was always a reader; there was no better place to be than a bookstore or library, no...

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 pages on the work of dealers, revealing that the narrative contained within a book is only part of the story...

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 an audience in the new Open Book series of the Pasadena Literary Alliance Wednesday night that all he recalls of...

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 in 2010, after a short stint in big law and a lifetime of voracious reading. I’ve been a collector for...

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 would go on to Middlebury College for his undergraduate degree and then the University of Pennsylvania for a degree in...

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 out of his California home—can be traced back to one of the oldest stories, found in the Bible: sibling rivalry

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 that works as a sort of book concierge helping you find whatever you’re looking for whether it’s an exact title...

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 to. As a result, I focused on the classics, although from several different genres: Russian, Victorian, Modern, Children’s, etc. While...