I was standing in the middle of a tight space, an attic with built-in bookshelves overcrowded with dusty books along a wall and in a lovely mahogany case with glass fronts. Two other rooms in…
Armed Services Edition books from WWII
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1880 book on Fisk Jubilee Singers & their songs
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I don’t know how I had missed the book, possibly because it was hidden in one of the many boxes of outdated books up for auction. Someone with a quick eye had located it and handed…
I couldn’t put the book down nor could I make up my mind to buy it. The book “Peter’s Chair” by Ezra Jack Keats and a plush doll figure of the little African American boy…
The first thing I saw on the book’s pink dust jacket were the black faces of happy dancing people. They were not stereotypical black as I was used to seeing on the covers of books…
My mind was drifting to the sound of an auctioneer in an adjoining room of the auction house when I heard the word “Harlem.” I looked up front to the TV monitor in the room where I sat to see a book…
Readers ask about Ginny doll & Mama Weiss cookbook
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Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A book of “My Spirituals” by Eva Jessye
Posted in African American women, Books, and Music
On its website, the auction house was advertising a massive sale of books, 3,000 of them. The idea of so many books was so overwhelming that I wondered if it would be worth the effort…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…