Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2697, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Sex Power and Love: James Brown from Augusta, Ga., the Sex Machine

[Detroit, MI] 25 November [1971] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
226

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) M. Morton Hall Presents Nina Simone . . . Martin Luther King Day, Kennedy Center

[Washington] 15 January [1979?] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
227

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Large group of publicity photographs of jazz vocalists and instrumentalists

Various places circa 1950s-1970s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
228

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Group of musicians' publicity photos

Various places circa 1930s to 1970s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
229

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Large group of publicity photographs of musicians and other entertainers

Various places circa 1950s to 1970s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
230

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Ira Aldridge broadside for his starring role in "The Slave," and performing his Jim Crow song

Chichester, England 30 July 1847 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
231

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Program for "Out of Bondage," featuring Sam Lucas and the Hyers sisters

Southbridge, MA 19 February 1877 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
232

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Great Wrong Righted

No place circa 1886 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
233

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Program for a performance of Bert Williams and George Walker's Abyssinia at Harlem's West End Theatre

New York 1906-04-23 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
234

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Playbill for a performance of Othello signed by its star, Paul Robeson

[New York] 1943-11-07 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
235

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Program for a Boston performance of Louis Farrakhan's Orgena

Boston 1961-05-19 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
236

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Lorraine Hansberry autographed pre-Broadway program for A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier

[Philadelphia] [circa 26 January 1959] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
237

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Handbill for Douglas Turner Ward's plays Day of Absence and Happy Ending

[San Francisco, CA] 1967-05-19 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
238

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) The Wiz, the New Musical Version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," at the Majestic Theatre

[New York] [1975] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
239

(FRATERNAL.) View book of Washington's Prince Hall Masonic Temple, titled "The New Masonic Temple."

Washington circa 1922 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
240 MARCUS GARVEY.

Signed stock certificate for 5 shares of stock in the Black Star Line, issued to Mildred Blackman

New York 1919-12-15 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
241

(HISTORY.) Correspondence between two titans of Black history librarianship, Arthur Schomburg and Dorothy Porter

Various places 1931 and 1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
242

(HISTORY.) Negro Heroes: True Stories Told in Full Color

New York 1947 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
243

(HISTORY.) Letters from important John Brown scholar Boyd Stutler to a fellow Brown enthusiast

Charleston, WV 1960-1969 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
244

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) "Marching for Equal Rights Now!" cardboard badge from the 1960 Republican Convention protest

[Chicago] 1960-07-25 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
245

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Program for King's lecture delivered at the University of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, CT 1961-03-13 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
246

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) 5 candid portraits of Dr. King and his family by the well-known civil rights photographer James Karales

No place images 1962, prints circa 1980s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
247

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Typed notes on Dr. King's sermon on "The Dimensions of a Complete Life" at an Illinois church

Evanston, IL 1963-05-19 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
248

MARTIN LUTHER KING. Detroit Council for Human Rights Presents . . . I Have a Dream, Recorded Live at Cobo Hall

Detroit, MI [1963] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
249

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) An Appeal to You . . . to March on Washington

New York 1963 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown