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
250

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) I Cared, I Was There: Illinois Rally for Civil Rights

[Chicago] 1964-06-21 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
251 MARTIN LUTHER KING

Advance press copy of his Nobel Peace Prize lecture

Oslo, Norway 1964-12-11 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
252 MARTIN LUTHER KING.

After the March: An Open Letter to the American People

No place circa April 1965 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
253 (MARTIN LUTHER KING)

Black is Beautiful, and It's So Beautiful to Be Black

Atlanta, GA 1967 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
254 (MARTIN LUTHER KING)

Group of 6 different Martin Luther King-related pinback buttons

Various places 1968 and undated USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
255

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Group of 15 snapshots of King's funeral procession

[Atlanta, GA] 1968-04-01 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
256

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Group of 29 press photos of the King funeral

Atlanta, GA and elsewhere 1968-04-01 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
257 (MARTIN LUTHER KING)

I Am a Man, Memphis

San Francisco, CA 1968 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
258 MARTIN LUTHER KING.

I Have a Dream miniature book

Elgin, IL 1968 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
259

(LABOR.) An experiment in industrial democracy: memoranda to the "Colored House of Representatives" at the American Zinc Company

Mascot, TN 1919-1920 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Unknown
260

(LABOR.) Large collection of Pullman Porter ephemera, pamphlets, and artifacts

Various places 1913-1970s USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
261 Addison Scurlock, photographer.

(LAW.) Group photograph of the National Bar Association

Washington 1930-08-07 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
262 Phillis Wheatley.

(LITERATURE.) "To Mr. and Mrs ******* on the Death of Their Infant Son," in an issue of the Boston Magazine

Boston September 1784 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
263

(LITERATURE.) Susan Paul. Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, who Died in Boston . . . Aged Six Years

Boston 1835 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
264 Sutton E. Griggs.

(LITERATURE.) The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist

Nashville, TN 1905 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
265 W.E.B. Du Bois.

(LITERATURE.) The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

Chicago 1911 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
266 Nella Larson.

(LITERATURE.) Quicksand

New York 1928 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
267 Langston Hughes.

(LITERATURE.) "Gypsy Ballads," his signed translation of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry collection "Romancero Gitano."

Madrid 1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
268

(LITERATURE.) Group of Langston Hughes ephemera, including his signed postcard and letter to pianist Margaret Bonds

Various places circa 1940-1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
269

(LITERATURE.) Gwendolyn Brooks

New York [1953] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
270 Alice Walker.

(LITERATURE.) "To Hell With Dying," in "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers," with her typescript biographical notes

Boston [1967] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
271

(LITERATURE.) Check List of Negro Authors Written in English and in African Dialects in the Library of Arthur B. Spingarn

[New York] circa 1963-1967 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
272

(LITERATURE.) Run of the quarterly Black Books Bulletin, including the first issue

Chicago 1971-1981 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
273 Spencer Jackson.

(LITERATURE.) Black Survival

Chicago circa 1972 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
274 (MALCOLM X.)

Important collection from Alex Haley's estate, including 3 items signed or annotated by Malcolm X

Various places 1963-1971 and undated USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown