Swann Galleries: Focus on Women, 2704, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) | Two first editions in their original jackets. |
New York. Boston | 1951. 1961 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) | Gone with the Wind. |
New York | 1936 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 28 | Morris, Margaret Hill (1737-1816) | Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War |
Philadelphia | 1836 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 29 | Morrison, Toni (1931-2019) | Sula, first edition. |
New York | 1974 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 563.00 |
| 30 | Murray, Pauli (1910-1985) | Dark Testament, and Other Poems. |
Norwalk, CT | 1970 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 31 | Murray, Pauli (1910-1985) | Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. |
New York | 1956 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 32 | Pascualla, Maria (d. circa 1657) | Last Will & Testament of a Nahuas Woman. |
Diocese of San Nicolas Panotla | 1657 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 33 | Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) | The Tale of Mr. Tod, signed first edition. |
London | 1912 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 34 | Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) | The Fountainhead, first edition. |
New York | 1943 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 35 | Rhys, Jean (1890-1979) | Wide Sargasso Sea, special copy presented to the author with signed note. |
London | 1966 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 36 | Russell, Mary du Caurroy, Duchess of Bedford (1865-1937) | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, her copy. |
London | 1896 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 37 | Scudery, Madeleine de (1607-1701) | Almahide; or, the Captive Queen. An Excellent New Romance |
London | 1677 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.00 |
| 38 | Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) | Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse.. |
London | [1877]. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 39 | Sichel, Walter (1855-1933) | Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents |
London | 1905 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 40 | Stein, Gertrude & Juan Gris. | A Book Concluding With As a Wife Has a Cow. Signed by Both |
Paris | 1926 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
| 41 | Stein, Gertrude. | Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded. Written on a Poem by Georges Hugnet. |
Paris | 1931 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 42 | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) | Narration, Signed Limited Edition. |
Chicago | 1935 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 43 | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) | Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, Signed Presentation copy |
Florence | no date [1912]. | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 44 | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) | Tender Buttons, a finely preserved signed first edition. |
New York | 1914 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 45 | Welty, Eudora (1909-2001) | The Robber Bridegroom, first edition. |
Garden City, NY | 1942 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 46 | Western Ex-Pat Females in Asia. The Ladies' Directory for Shanghai, 1871. |
Shanghai | 1871 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,000.00 | |
| 47 | Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) | Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. |
Boston | 1834 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 48 | Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) | To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket. |
London | 1927 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
| 49 | Anthony, Susan B. & Elizabeth Cady Stanton. | American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated. |
New York | March 1869. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.00 |
| 50 | Bewick Colby, Clara (1846-1916) | The Woman's Tribune. |
Beatrice | 1888 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
