On First Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, I happened on a stoop sale with lots of LPs, found super-8 movies, Criterion Collection DVD’s, art books, and film equipment. My dad collects classical and jazz LP’s here’ what I got for him:
The Art Tatum Buddy DeFranco Quartet on Verve
Bird and Diz on Verve
In a Mellow toe by Johnny Hodges on Verve
Die Dreigroschenoper: The original cast recording of The Three Penny Opera on Telefunken
Victoria De Los Angeles on Seraphim
Bach: The Two and Three Park Inventions Gleenn Gould on Columbia
Elizabeth Schwarzkoph singing Mozart and Bach
But the real find was this, a book, copyright 1958:
The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men: Revealing stories and pieces by the most damned and praised writers of our day, including Jack Kerouac, Colin Wilson, Joh Wain, John Osborne, Kingsely Amis, Allen Ginsberg and many others…