Swann Galleries: Swann Galleries : 1851, 1851,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 24, 2000 - February 24, 2000

Page Size: 277 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
001		Africa with all its States, Kingdoms, Republics, Regions, Islands &c. Improved and Inlarged From D'Anville's Map; to which have been added A Particular Chart of the Gold Coast, Wherein are Distinguished all the European Forts and Factories.	London	1800	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	805.00
002	(AFRICA.) Crummell, Alexander	The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa. A Letter to Charles B. Dunbar.	Hartford	1861	USD 500.00 - 750.00	632.00
004	ARMISTEAD, WILSON	A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind.	Manchester	1848	USD 600.00 - 800.00	4,370.00
005	BAKER, JOSEPHINE	"Paris Mes Amours" a l'Olympia. Extended-play 45-rpm record, in the original sleeve. Includes three other songs, in addition to the title piece.	Paris	(1959)	USD 300.00 - 400.00	431.00
006	BAKER, JOSEPHINE	Portrait painted on silk. Striking head-and-shoulders view of a young Baker, with background of intertwined tropical leaves and trees, in shades of red, brown, green, and yellow. Airbrush with gouache by G. Bonvallot, in typical 1920s Art Deco style.	Np	nd	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
007	BAKER, JOSEPHINE	Souvenir portrait.	[Paris]	1933	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
008	(BAKER, JOSEPHINE)	Josephine Baker at Carnegie Hall. Poster, at top: "Felix G. Gerstman under sponsorship and for Benefit of Friends of the Josephine Baker International Children's Camp and NAACP --- CORE --- SNCC --- SCLC Present." Baker's silhouette in black on gray backg	New York	circa 1965	USD 250.00 - 350.00	161.00
010	BALDWIN, JAMES	The Devil Finds Work.	New York	(1976)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
011	BALDWIN, JAMES	Gypsy and Other Poems. Two engravings by Leonard Baskin; one, printed on blue paper and tipped to a page, is SIGNED BY BASKIN.	(Hadley, Massachusetts)	1989	USD 300.00 - 400.00	230.00
012	(BASEBALL.) Joy, John	Typed Letter Signed as President of the Negro Major Leagues to Dan Burley of the Amsterdam News.	Chicago	1947	USD 200.00 - 300.00	517.00
014	(BASEBALL)	Time Magazine cover for 22 September 1947 bearing a portrait of Jackie Robinson by Ernest Hamlin Baker.	New York	1947	USD 400.00 - 600.00	805.00
015	(BASEBALL)	Group photograph of the Wichita Falls black baseball league team.	Wichita Falls, Kansas	circa 1945	USD 350.00 - 500.00	345.00
016	(BASEBALL)	Pen-and-ink drawing of a black baseball game.	Np	circa 1905	USD 600.00 - 900.00	345.00
017	(BLACK AUTHORS)	Group of 5 titles, all first editions; one inscribed. Ernest Tidyman. Shaft. New York, (1970) * Terry McMillan. Waiting to Exhale. New York, 1992 * Sidney Poitier. This Life. Inscribed. New York, 1980 * Piri Thomas. Savior, Savior Hold My Hand. New York,	Vp	vd	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
018	THE BLACK PANTHER	First 3 issues of the literary arm of the Black Panther Party.	Oakland, California	25 April--20 June 1967	USD 600.00 - 800.00	805.00
019	(BLACK PANTHERS)	Two posters. The first, of Bobby Hutton --- a photographic image on background of blue and black "rays," within which are quotes from Hutton on "Liberation" and "The Black Revolution"; the second --- may also be Hutton; some soil to this poster at bottom.	Chicago; Oakland	1969	USD 250.00 - 350.00	373.00
021	(BOXING.) Ali, Muhammad	The Greatest, My Own Story.	New York	(1975)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
023	(BOXING.) Johnson, Jack	Jack Johnson. Champion of the World. Poster, showing him with a wreath, between his log cabin birthplace and a picture of him behind the wheel of a car.	Np	1909	USD 600.00 - 900.00	402.00
025	(BOXING.) Louis, Joe	Copy Photograph Inscribed and Signed in 1980, showing a youthful "Bronx Bomber" in a boxing pose.	Np	1980	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
026	(BOXING.) Louis, Joe	Real photo postcard showing Louis in profile, barefisted boxing pose in a rural setting, by Carl Van Vechten.	Np	circa 1937	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,092.00
034		BROWN, JOHN, of Osawatomie. Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Thompson, regarding a shipment of "freight" to North Elba, New York.	Hudson, Ohio	18 June 1855	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,680.00
035	(BROWN, JOHN)	Autograph Letter Signed to John Brown from Mahala Doyle, widow and mother of 3 men killed at Pottawatomie.	Chattanooga, Tennessee	20 November 1859	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	10,925.00
036	BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS	The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements.	New York	1863	USD 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
037	[CARROLL, CHARLES]	"The Negro A Beast," or "In The Image of God."	St. Louis	[1900]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
038	CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON	Autograph Letter Signed to his friend, poet Ralph Douberly, reflecting on Christmas and Easter holidays and making a veiled reference to the Scottsboro trial.	Tuskegee	27 March 1932	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,265.00
039	CHAMPONIER, P. A.	Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1852-53.	New Orleans	1853	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
040	CHRISTENSEN, A. M. H.	Afro-American Folk-Lore Told round the Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina.	Boston	(1892)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
041	(COTTON CLUB)	Bar Mitzvah program for Bernard Stark, son of Herman Stark, part owner of the Cotton Club and agent for Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and others.	New York	1939	USD 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
042	(CRIME)	The Manheim Tragedy. Complete History of the Double Murder of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. Ream: With the only Authentic Life and Confession of Alexander Anderson . . . Published by H. A. Rockafield in Trust for the Benefit of Anderson's Wife and Children.	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	1858	USD 350.00 - 500.00	316.00
044	DANIELS, JOHN	In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes.	Boston	1914	USD 100.00 - 150.00	69.00
045	(DAVIS, ANGELA)	Free Angela Davis Now! and I am a Black Woman.	New York; np	circa 1971	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
046	(DAVIS, ANGELA)	Freiheit fur Angela Davis.	Np [East Germany]	[1971]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
047	DOUGLASS, FREDERICK	My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman.	New York & Auburn	1855	USD 400.00 - 600.00	431.00
048	DOUGLASS, FREDERICK	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.	Boston	1845	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	575.00
049	DOUGLASS, FREDERICK	Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, August 4th and the other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York . . . May, 1857.	Rochester	1857	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,680.00
050	DOUGLASS, FREDERICK	Drypoint etching of Douglass, a portrait in his later years.	Np	circa late 1960s--early 70s	USD 500.00 - 750.00	316.00
052	(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK)	Civil Rights Bill and West Point Academy. Letter from Gerrit Smith to Frederick Douglass. Peterboro, June 27th, 1874. "Hon. Frederick Douglass, Washington, D.C., My old and much esteemed friend . . ."	Peterboro [N.H.]	1874	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
053	(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK)	In Memoriam. Frederick Douglass.	Philadelphia	1897	USD 400.00 - 600.00	316.00
054	(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK)	The Official Program of Douglass Monument Day. Friday June Ninth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. Rochester New York (cover title).	Rochester	1899	USD 250.00 - 350.00	149.00
055	(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Pickens, William	Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Freedom (abridged).	Alabama	1912	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
056	DU BOIS, W. E. B.	Black Reconstruction.	New York	(1935)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
058	DU BOIS, W. E. B. John Brown	/book_records/251657	Philadelphia	1909	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
059	DU BOIS, W. E. B.	The Souls of Black Folk.	Chicago	1903	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,035.00
061	DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE	Folks from Dixie. Colored frontispiece and other illustrations by E. W. Kemble, some in color.	New York	1899	USD 300.00 - 400.00	258.00
062	DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE	The Sport of the Gods.	New York	1902	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00
063	DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE	The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble.	New York	1900	USD 300.00 - 400.00	287.00
064		The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race. Edited by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson; introduction by Leslie Pinckney Hill.	Naperville, Illinois	(1920)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	161.00
065		Ebony and Topaz; a Collectanea. Edited by Charles S. Johnson, front cover by Charles Cullen, illustrations by Aaron Douglas et al.	New York	(1927)	USD 300.00 - 500.00	632.00
066	(EDUCATION)	Report of the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846 on the Petition of Sundry Colored Persons, for the Abolition of the Schools for Colored Children. With the City Solicitor's Opinion. City Document --- No. 23.	Boston	1846	USD 400.00 - 600.00	230.00
067	FATHER DIVINE	Enormous archive of material relative to Father Divine.	Vp	1937--1970s	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,380.00
068	FATHER DIVINE	Early photograph by James Van Der Zee.	New York	1934	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,380.00
071	(FATHER DIVINE)	Black Gold.	New York	[1928]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,760.00
072	(FATHER DIVINE)	Black Gold.	New York	[1928]	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	747.00
073	(FATHER DIVINE)	Black Gold.	New York	[1928]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
074	(FATHER DIVINE)	"The Crimson Skull."	New York	[1921]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,035.00
075	(FATHER DIVINE)	"The Crimson Skull."	New York	[1921]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	690.00
076	(FATHER DIVINE)	"The Crimson Skull."	New York	[1921]	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	2,530.00
077	(FATHER DIVINE)	The Flying Ace.	New York	[1926]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,035.00
078	(FATHER DIVINE)	The Flying Ace.	New York	[1926]	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,955.00
079	(FATHER DIVINE)	The Flying Ace.	New York	[1926]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
080	(FATHER DIVINE)	The Green Eyed Monster.	New York	[1920]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	977.00
081	(FATHER DIVINE)	The Green Eyed Monster.	New York	[1928]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,150.00
082	(FATHER DIVINE)	Regeneration.	New York	[1923]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	172.00
084	(FATHER DIVINE)	Group of 5 pressbooks and heralds for Norman productions. The Flying Ace * Black Gold * Regeneration * "The Crimson Skull" * Bulldogger (pressbook only).	New York	vd	USD 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
086		"Life is Real."	Foster, Indiana	circa 1930s	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
087	McDANIEL, HATTIE	Photograph Inscribed and Signed.	Np	1944	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,092.00
088	(FISK UNIVERSITY)	Group of 7 performance programs.	Nashville	1923--1926	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
089	FLETCHER, TOM	The Tom Fletcher Story. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business.	New York	(1954)	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
090	(FOLK ART)	Hand-carved and painted figure of a Black man on a donkey. Shows a Black man wearing top hat, seated on a donkey painted in olive green-gray with black hooves, nostrils and eyes; the rider wears white pants, buff-colored shirt with sleeves rolled up, and	Np	circa latter half 19th century	USD 350.00 - 500.00	517.00
092	(FRATERNITIES.) Dreer, Herman	The History of Omega Psi Phi, a Brotherhood of Negro College Men. 1911-1939.	(Baltimore)	(1940)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
093	(GARVEY, MARCUS)	The Negro World.	New York	4 September; 21 August 1926	USD 250.00 - 350.00	287.00
094	(GARVEY, MARCUS)	Hear! Hear! Hear! An International Convention of the Negroes of the World.	New York	20 February 1926	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
095	GAVAGAN, JOSEPH A.	A Bill to assure persons within the jurisdiction of every State equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching. House of Representatives, H.R. 143.	Washington, D.C.	1937	USD 250.00 - 350.00	172.00
097	GRIMKE, ANGELINA. Rachel	A Play in Three Acts.	Boston	circa 1920	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
098	HELPER, HINTON ROWAN	Nojoque; A Question for a Continent.	New York	1867	USD 300.00 - 400.00	201.00
099	HILL, LESLIE PINCKNEY	Toussaint l'Ouverture, a Dramatic History.	Boston	(1928)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
100	HILL, ROY L.	Archive of books, letters, programs and records.	Vp	1940s--1970	USD 600.00 - 800.00	632.00
101	HIMES, CHESTER	If He Hollers.	New York	1945	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
102	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Scottsboro Limited. Cover and 4 tipped-in full-page illustrations by Prentiss Taylor	New York	1932	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,300.00
103	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Autograph Letter Signed to Dorothy Warrick. Written in margins of a biographical broadside on composer William Grant Still.	Los Angeles	4 June 1937	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	690.00
104	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Autograph Manuscript Signed of "Dreams," a poem written on front free endpaper of a first edition Dreams and Voices by Grace Hyde Trine. Color frontispiece by Clinton Brown.	New York	1920	USD 400.00 - 600.00	575.00
105	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Group of 3 items Inscribed and Signed to Herbert Coleman.	Paris	1964, 1966	USD 600.00 - 800.00	488.00
106	HUGHES, LANGSTON; and HEYWARD, SAMMY	Checkin' On the Freedom Train.	New York	circa 1935?	USD 400.00 - 600.00	488.00
107	HUNTER, W. L., M.D.	Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in his Veins.	Brooklyn, New York	1904	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
108	(HYERS, ANNA and EMMA)	Great Musical Drama "Out of Bondage." Only Colored Dramatic Company in the World.	Boston	circa 1877	USD 350.00 - 500.00	920.00
109	JACKSON, ALGERNON	Jim and Mr. Eddy.	Washington	(1930)	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
110	(JAMAICA)	Robert Baker, His Pocket Ledger, 1789. Ledger book. Among other entries, the "Last Will and Testament"; separate pagination, in at least two hands; front cover pocket; light wear.	Jamaica	1789--1807	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	2,990.00
111	(JAMAICA)	Legal Document Signed by Sir Henry Moore. Certified copy, proceedings in Court of Chancery, island of Jamaica, between Richard Farrell of the Parish of St. George, complainant, and Zachary Bayly of Kingston, for recovery of an alleged debt together with i	Kingston	1758	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,035.00
112	JONES, CHARLES C.	Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular.	Boston	1888	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
114	(JUVENILE)	The Happy Negro; to which is added, The Grateful Negro.	New York	circa 1840	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
115	(JUVENILE.) Harrison, William Henry	Colored Girls' and Boys' Inspiring United States History, And a Heart to Heart Talk about White Folks.	(Allentown, Pennsylvania)	(1921)	USD 200.00 - 300.00	977.00
116	KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.	Why We Can't Wait.	New York	(1964)	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	13,800.00
117	(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.)	Folk art "altar." Mixed materials; depicting Jesus with his hands on Dr. King's shoulders. Printed and charcoalsketched images pasted on wood backing; heavy gilt and blue oil paint over and around images; two small candleholders are on the wooden altar wh	Np	circa 1968	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	546.00
118	(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.)	Union Justice Now.	Memphis	[1968]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	402.00
119	(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.)	Usher's badge for the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Atlanta, Georgia	Tuesday, 9 April 1968	USD 350.00 - 500.00	230.00
120	(KU KLUX KLAN)	Stop The Ku Klux Klan Propaganda in New York.	New York	circa 1921	USD 250.00 - 350.00	373.00
121	LANGSTON, JOHN MERCER	From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital.	Hartford	1894	USD 200.00 - 300.00	172.00
122	LAWRENCE, ROBERT H. JR.	Portrait Photograph Inscribed and Signed	Los Angeles	circa 1966	USD 350.00 - 500.00	402.00
123	(MAGIC)	Black Herman's Secrets of Magic --- Mystery & Legerdemain.	New York	(1938)	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
124	MALCOLM X.	Autograph Letter Signed, "Malcolm X," to Marie Muhammad, sending a spiritual message on La Guardia Airport postcard.	Flushing	21 July 1955 [postmark]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,680.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.