Nonfiction: Vintage Records Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich, (Scribner) The characters in “Do Not Sell At Any Price” are in a state of constant amazement — at the arcane world of rare 78 ...

Amanda Petrusich's fascination with 78 RPM records and the obsessives who collect them led her to the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Credit: Bret Stetka In spring 2011, New York music journalist ...

A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

In 1952, a twenty-nine-year-old record collector named Harry Everett Smith squirreled himself away in a two-room office at 111 West Forty-Seventh Street, chewing on peyote buttons and compiling a ...

What would you do if you bought an old record from a thrift store on a whim, only to later learn it had been made by a group associated with the Ku Klux Klan? That’s the situation a Lansing man ...

A collection of about 200,000 record albums has been donated to Syracuse University, boosting its collection of 78-rpm records to about 400,000 -- second in the United States only to the Library of ...

Midway through her thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records, writer Amanda Petrusich has a revelation. Focusing on one particular ...

Midway through her thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records, writer Amanda Petrusich has a revelation. Focusing on one particular ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...

In 1952, a twenty-nine-year-old record collector named Harry Everett Smith squirreled himself away in a two-room office at 111 West Forty-Seventh Street, chewing on peyote buttons and compiling a ...