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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.
Whitmore Rare Books (Pasadena, CA)
Whitmore Rare Books recently moved from a second-floor walk-up space to a ground-level showroom on a much more heavily trafficked street in...
… 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,…
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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 of the Beat Generation, a self-styled crazy hobo mystic who hit the US’s highways looking for himself, but Jack Kerouac wasn’t above...
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...
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 economic, political, and educational factors that have shaped communities over time. By considering a series of antique European and American...
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...
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. At this event, she speaks to graduate students about how her work as an art critic, a collection development manager...
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...
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 with very special gift lists.
At Whitmore Rare Books, which specializes in literary first editions and antiquarian books, Dan Whitmore...
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...
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 of one hundred signed copies of James Joyce's Ulysses, which netted $125,000 - or the sale of a signed, first...
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...
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 in his field.
Story by Sara Smola // Photo by MOWRY
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
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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 was nuts," he says.
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...
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 the transition from collector to bookseller. It explains why booksellers generally appreciate the goods they sell in ways not often...
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...
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 to see his very elegantly produced color catalogue in an age when many booksellers have done away with printed catalogues...
