Revolutionary Pamphlets from Private Library of Kurt Thometz & Jumel Terrace Books with BlackMass at Canal Projects.

Credits for the collection are due to the late New York City booksellers, William French of University Place Books, of Greenwich Village, and Una Mulzac’s Liberation Books and Earl Hadley’s Afro-American Bookstore, Harlem. In their memory and with my gratitude to BlackMass for the opportunity to share.

Black Friday at Jumel Terrace Books

Along with backing into some barrister bookcases we’d lent a friend long enough ago to have forgotten we own them, I inherited a library table this week.  With some fresh stock this was sufficient reason to freshen up for the holidays and reconfigure the bookshop, doing unto myself as I do unto others.  All the […]

Tar Beach Reads from Jumel Terrace Books

ATTENTION SMART SHOPPERS!!! Dis ole world getting you down?  Feelin’ like The Invisible Man, with Mr. Charlie giving you the Summertime Blues?  All your sick days used up and, lacking in paid vacation, island hopping between Staten, Roosevelt, Rikers and several prestige-less addresses on Western Long Island?  Like all savvy New Yorkers you know, when it’s […]