Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2717, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 384 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
327 Gayl Jones

Corregidora

New York 1975 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
328 James Joyce

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun

Paris 1929 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,206.00
329 James Joyce

Anna Livia Plurabelle

New York 1928 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,488.00
330 James Joyce

Ulysses

Paris 1922 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,700.00
331 Jack Kerouac

On the Road

New York 1957 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,810.00
332 Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

New York 1962 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,716.00
333 Rudyard Kipling

Kim, Rare First American Edition in Parts

New York December 1900-October 1901 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
334 Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Philadelphia 1960 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,160.00
335 Cormac McCarthy

The Orchard Keeper, Inscribed to Sen. Howard Baker Jr.

New York 1965 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,752.00
336 Cormac McCarthy

Two Inscribed First Editions, with a Short ALS

New York 1994 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,128.00
337 Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

New York 1949 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
338

Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind

New York 1936 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
339 John O'Hara

Butterfield 8

New York 1935 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 76.00
340 Thomas McDaniels Potter

Adventures in Fishing

Long Beach, CA 1924 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,159.00
341 Thomas Pynchon

Three First Editions. Gravity's Rainbow

New York 1973 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,159.00
342 J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

New York 1998-10-01 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 17,780.00
343 J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye, First Edition in the First State Jacket

Boston 1951 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,651.00
344 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Author's Album Containing Retained Copies of Letters

January 1951-June 1956 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 33,020.00
345 Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery

New York 1901 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 952.00
346 James Brown

Self Portraits

Naples 1983 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
347 Alexander Calder, illus. & Richard Wilbur

A Bestiary

New York 1955 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
348 Enrico Castellani

Estroflessione

Milan 1968 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
349 Yakov Chernikhov

Fundamentals of Contemporary Architecture

Leningrad 1930 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
350 Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret

L'Architecture Vivante, Printemps, No. 27

Paris 1930 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 462.00
351 Cesar Daly

L'Architecture Privee au XIXe Siecle, Third Series: Decorations Interieures Peintes

Paris 1877 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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