I hadn’t thought of the book about a little boy named Turky until I got a letter recently from a reader who fondly remembered reading it as a child. “Turky Trott and the Black Santa”…
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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…
Fridays 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…
Each Friday, I answer readers’ questions about items they have. I’m not able to assess the values of their treasures, but I can do some preliminary research to get them started. I’ve chosen only one…
Captain Kangaroo was the morning man from my childhood. I remember well his mutton sideburns, flabby neck and flat-top hair, along with his sidekick Mr. Green Jeans. So, when I came across two books in a…
I missed the news more than a week ago that illustrator Leo Dillon had died. A friend mentioned it to me a few days ago, and for a minute I had a mental block of…
I was looking through the box lots at the auction house when my auction buddy Janet hurried toward me. She’d found a book in another room with prints by African American artist Lois Mailou Jones.…
Now, who wrote the ‘Wizard of Oz’?
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The auctioneer was trying mightily to sell the six or so stacks of old books on the counter behind him, one stack at a time. But he was hawking them to a stubborn crowd. There…
The cover of the book was so marred by water damage that I could only make out the word “Negroes.” Instantly, I knew it was something I had to examine a little closer. It was…
Maurice Sendak’s book ‘Wild Things’
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A few years ago, I heard about an exhibit of Maurice Sendak’s original artwork from one of my favorite children’s books “Where the Wild Things Are.” The works were on display at the Rosenbach Museum &…