Auction Reports
Swann Galleries
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Focus on Women
- Auction Date
- 05/15/2025 - 05/15/2025
- Sale Number
- #2704
- Total Lots
- 132
- Sold Lots
- 94
- Lots Sold
- 71.21%
- Unsold Lots
- 38
- Total Sales (USD)
- 233,020.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 138,100.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 208,500.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 209,400.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 308,700.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 75.48%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) | The Fountainhead, first edition. |
1943 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 48 | Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) | To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket. |
1927 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
| 54 | Dunham, Katherine (1909-2006) | Large Archive of Material from her Attorney, circa 1951-1953. |
circa 1951-1953. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 17 | Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) | A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition. |
1959 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 47 | Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) | Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. |
1834 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
| 74 | Dater, Judy (b. 1941) | Ten Photographs. |
1974 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 40 | Stein, Gertrude & Juan Gris. | A Book Concluding With As a Wife Has a Cow. Signed by Both |
1926 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
| 44 | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) | Tender Buttons, a finely preserved signed first edition. |
1914 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 43 | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) | Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, Signed Presentation copy |
no date [1912]. | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 10 | Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965) | Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece |
1934 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 73 | Cameron, Evelyn J. (1868-1928) | Waiting to be Shorn, Montana. |
early 20th century. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 14 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Woman in the Nineteenth Century. |
1845 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 151 | Steir, Pat (b. 1940) | Untitled Diptych. |
1985 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 51 | Carrington, Dora (1893-1932) | Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to Maynard Keynes. |
1917 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
| 68 | Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) & Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) | Photographs & Watercolor. |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,500.00 | |
| 22 | Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) | Moses Man of the Mountain, first edition. |
1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 55 | Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) | Autograph Letter Signed. |
1846 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 144 | Ringgold, Faith (1930-2024) | Woman Freedom Now. |
1971 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 38 | Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) | Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse.. |
[1877]. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 143 | Ringgold, Faith (1930-2024 ) | Groovin' High. |
1996 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
