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About Chicago Rare Book CenterChicago Rare Book Center
The Chicago Rare Book Center came into existence in 1998 as a book mall co-owned by Ann Dumler, Paul Garon, Tom Joyce, Pat Martinak and Frank Pollack. Frank Pollack left the partnership in 1999, and for the next five years, the original four partners continued to operate the mall in Chicago's Gold Coast area at 56 W Maple. In March 2005, the partners moved the bookstore to Evanston in the Main Street shopping area. In its present state, Chicago Rare Book Center focuses on the books of the four partners and no longer operates as a mall. Their concentrations include Children's Books, Modern Literature, Jazz and Blues, Art, Chicago and the Midwest, Americana, Bindings and Sets, but the store includes rare and unusual books in all subjects.The Partners
The partners are children's specialist Ann Dumler, jazz and blues author Paul Garon, TV book appraiser Tom Joyce, a specialist in Americana, Appraisals, and Chicago and the Midwest, and Pat Martinak, who operated Alkahest Book Shop in Evanston for over 20 years. The partners bring to the store a combined 100 years experience in the book trade.
A youtube video featuring Thomas Joyce (mis-identified in the video as partner Paul Garon) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0wAWOwphE
Partner Paul Garon was interviewed for a segment of History Detectives, July 16, 2007. Here is a subsequent newspaper interview about the episode:
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/2.13893/bookstore-owner-stamp-is-real-1.1923493
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