Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2663, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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326 | Paschall L. Sanders, editor | An issue of the scarce National Negro Digest. |
Chicago | 1938 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 688.00 |
327 | Alice C. Browning, editor | First (and only?) issue of "Child Play: A Magazine for Boys and Girls 4 to 14." |
Chicago | 1945 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
328 | A Hint to the Wise. |
Newark NJ | 1961 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,750.00 | |
329 | Abu Eshaq Bey, editor | SALAAM: A Black Magazine of Det's Arts and News. |
Detroit MI | 1970 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 938.00 |
330 | Wide-ranging group of newspapers, from radical to mainstream, spanning 24 different titles. |
Various places | 1968, 1973-2001 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
331 | James Presley Ball, photographer | Carte-de-visite portrait of a white lawman, signed "JPB" on verso. |
Cincinnati OH | circa 1864-1866 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 813.00 |
332 | Carte-de-visite album of Black subjects, many of them apparently from Seneca and Geneva, New York. |
No place | circa 1860s-1870s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,500.00 | |
333 | Mansfield, photographer | The Albino, or White Negro Girl: Helen Ann Windman Walker, Henry Sedam Walker. |
St. Louis MO | circa 1864 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 813.00 |
334 | B. S. DeForest | Ambrotype of "a freed slave girl brought north by B. S. DeForest," with two supporting family photos. |
No place | circa 1865 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 |
335 | Marriage certificate illustrated with photographs of the bride and groom. |
Decatur MI | 1879 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 750.00 | |
336 | Gwinn family | Pair of elegantly compiled photo albums from the Gwinn family of Savannah and New York. |
New York and elsewhere | 1881-1896 and undated | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
337 | Jerry Plowden | Photograph of mentally disabled laborer Jerry Plowden. |
Bedford PA | circa 1889-1894 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 |
338 | "In Dixie-Land" card game. |
Cincinnati OH | 1897 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
339 | Rev. James M. Boddy | Signed cabinet card photograph of the Rev. James M. Boddy, one of the first Black graduate students at Princeton. |
New York | 1897 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,063.00 |
340 | Jennie Van Der Zee | Real Photo postcard of a Garveyite in uniform. |
New York | circa 1918 to 1930 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
341 | James Van Der Zee, photographer | Portrait of his sister Jennie at her Toussaint School of Art and Music. |
New York | 1946 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
342 | James Van Der Zee, photographer; Clyde Barnhart | Pair of signed portraits of jazz trombonist Clyde Barnhart. |
New York | 1944 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
343 | Winifred Hall | Portrait of a bride and groom. |
New York | circa 1930s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
344 | Photographs from Philadelphia's elite Pyramid Club, by Mosley and other noted photographers. |
Philadelphia | circa 1940s-1950s | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 500.00 | |
345 | Sadie T. Jones | Memorial photograph of Sadie T. Jones in elaborate frame. |
No place | circa 1950s? | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,063.00 |
346 | Bruce Davidson | Sharecropper's Cabin, Trickem Forks, Near Selma, Alabama. |
Trickem AL | circa 1961-1965 (1966 print) | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
347 | News photograph of the Sons of Watts Community Patrol preparing for the annual Watts Festival. |
Los Angeles | 1967 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
348 | Monster Mass Meeting . . . Democracy for the Negro in America Now! |
New York | 1941 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
349 | Vote Socialist Workers, Clifton DeBerry for President. |
New York | 1964 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
350 | Barbara Jordan | News photograph of Barbara Jordan, newly elected to the Texas Senate. |
Houston TX | 1966 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 469.00 |