Swann Galleries: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, 2712, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 21, 2025 - August 21, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George G. Rockwood | Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892). |
Circa 1854; printed 1895. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 2 | Harry Angelo | I Wish That I'd Been Born a Girl: A Gentleman's Comic Song. |
1867 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
| 3 | Abraham Solomon | Autograph Letter Signed, |
1861 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 137.00 | |
| 4 | Charlotte Cushman | Collection of ephemera from the noted actress. |
1870s. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5 | John Addington Symonds, Jr. | A Problem in Greek Ethics, being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists. |
1901 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 531.00 | |
| 11 | Portrait of bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (1867-1925). |
Circa 1900. | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 12 | Jack Brown | Pair of postcards depicting the noted female impersonator performing the cakewalk. |
Circa 1903. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 | |
| 13 | Anonymous | Vesta Tilley Co. |
Circa 1900. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 14 | Elisabeth Marbury | Series of letters signed by the pioneering literary agent. |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 15 | Adolph Campbell Meyer | Nijinsky, L'Apres-midi d'un Faune. |
1912; published 1978. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,210.00 | |
| 16 | Julian Eltinge | Photograph of the famed female impersonator, signed and inscribed "A reminder of Julian Eltinge," 1918. |
1918? | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 17 | Julian Eltinge | 6 photo postcards of "Julian Eltinge in the Crinoline Girl" in booklet form. |
1914 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.00 | |
| 18 | Julian Eltinge | Collection of photographs and ephemera of the famed female impersonator. |
1912-1923. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 19 | Alla Nazimova | Photographs and ephemera of the early Hollywood star. |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 20 | Einar Wegener | A View of a Garden fountain with Playing Cherubs (Fountain at Petit Trianon). |
Circa 1910. | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,640.00 | |
| 21 | Paul Swan | With two press stamps and a typed caption label with the date, on verso |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 487.00 | ||
| 22 | Walery (Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Ostrorog) | A selection of 2 photographs of the iconic figure Francois "Feral" Benga (1906-1957). |
Circa 1930. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 23 | Alexander Canedo | Two Symbolic Portraits. |
Circa 1935 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
| 24 | William Horace Littlefield | The Fall of Phaeton. |
1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
| 25 | Flier for drag shows at Baltimore's Club Piccadilly, "Where People Go Gay." |
1937 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 375.00 | ||
| 26 | Carl VanVechten | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) at Bilignin * Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) at Bilignin * Basket at Bilignin. |
June 13, 1934. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 | |
| 27 | Carl VanVechten | Portrait of the actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) with her lion Winston Churchill. |
1941 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | |
| 28 | Carl VanVechten | Nelson Barclift (This is the Army). |
1942 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
| 29 | Carl VanVechten | Francisco Moncion as Sebastian. |
November 30, 1944. | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 687.00 | |
| 30 | Carl VanVechten | Portrait of Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014). |
September 30, 1954. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
