our next guest with us is carl bloomgram. >> hi. >> welcome. >> nice to be here. >> welcome. tell us your background and history and your involvement. >> i grew up in a house full of books and got interested in selling books in my early 20s. i've been involved in the business ever since. i love books and i think they are fascinating and i like to work in that field. >> the love came at a young age? >> yeah. always a big reader and and i enjoyed the history of books. i am a specialist in foesk books and also illustrated books. i was fascinated with that. that is one of the areas that i focus on. >> great. you brought some books. let's go right into it. >> okay. one of the books that might be of interest right now is this is a book, a photographic book "roll, jordan, roll" which i believe is a spiritual, african american spiritual song. >> that's right. >> and this book is considered one o imptant photographic books of the 20th century >> i appreciate you bringing books with american history with the black history this month. >> yes. so julia peterkin was an author of pulitzer