The hype for the Rare Books L.A. book fair at Union Station felt bigger this year, thanks to the event’s partnership with Netflix to promote Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” film.
Still, no amount of celebrity razzle-dazzle could distract from the annual stars of the show: cases and tables filled and stacked with antiquarian books, art, maps and other rare and curious items from dozens of book dealers.
Hundreds of people filled the hall at the main entrance of Union Station over the past weekend to peruse books older than their great-grandparents and trace their fingers over the signatures of their long-dead favorite authors; signatures that were safely stored within the covers of surviving first editions of their novels.