LBJ’s condolence letter to Coretta Scott King in Quinn’s March 12 auctionFALLS CHURCH, Va. – On Thursday, March 12, Quinn’s Auction Galleries will offer to the highest bidder one of the most significant documents in US history – the letter President Lyndon Baines Johnson wrote to Coretta Scott King on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther […]
Great American books celebrated at Freeman’s, Sept. 21PHILADELPHIA — Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, the inaugural sale of the auction house’s fall 2022 season, will be led by an extremely rare first edition of New Englands First Fruits, a 1643 account of Puritan evangelization in New England. The first copy to be offered at auction in more than 20 years, […]
Freeman’s to auction noted children’s books March 25PHILADELPHIA – Freeman’s will hold a single-owner auction, the Martin Magovsky Collection of Children’s Books, on Wednesday, March 25. The 156-lot sale will showcase children’s books from the 20th and 21st centuries, including more than 100 Caldecott and Newbery Award and Honor recipients. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ images to be donated after archive saleWASHINGTON (AP) – The first time Darren Walker was featured in The New York Times two decades ago, his grandmother asked when he would appear in The Jet. “Until you made it in The Jet, you haven’t made it in the African American community,” Walker said. “That story is a metaphor for the reverence and […]