Swann Galleries: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, 2712, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 21, 2025 - August 21, 2025
Page Size: 399 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
254 David Wojnarowicz

Untitled for ACT UP.

1990 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,000.00
255 Peter Hujar

Christopher Street Pier #1.

1979 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,250.00
256 Peter Hujar

Portrait of Paul Thek.

1976; printed 2011. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,250.00
257 Robert Mapplethorpe

Untitled.

1968 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 37,500.00
258 Robert Mapplethorpe

[Cuvee Dom Perignon (a New Year's Card).]

1974 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
259 Robert Mapplethorpe

Exhibition card for "CENSORED."

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
260 Don Herron

Robert Mapplethorpe, from the Tub Shots series.

1978 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
261 Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith

Patti Smith: Drawings / Robert Mapplethorpe: Film and Stills.

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,187.00
262 Robert Mapplethorpe

Julian Asion (torso).

1979; printed 1980. USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 13,750.00
263 Robert Mapplethorpe

Jeff Gray.

1980 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 4,250.00
264 Robert Mapplethorpe

Dennis Morgan.

1980; printed 2011. USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,500.00
265 Robert Mapplethorpe

Lady, Lisa Lyon.

1983 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 520.00
266 Robert Mapplethorpe

Ken Moody.

1985 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,750.00
267 Marcus Leatherdale

Robert Mapplethorpe I.

1979 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,000.00
268 Marcus Leatherdale

Lisa Lyon I.

1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
269 Richard Bernstein

Mick Jagger Newspaper.

1969 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
270 Richard Bernstein

Muse (Pat Cleveland).

1975 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
271 Victor Hugo

Red Series: I-V (Six works).

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 593.00
272 Victor Hugo

Red & Blue Series: I-IV (Five works).

1976 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
273 Victor Hugo

Three Untitled Sketches.

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
274 Victor Hugo

Untitled.

Circa 1970s. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 750.00
275 Ronnie Blaise Cutrone

An archive documenting Andy Warhol at the Factory, including the making of "Sex Parts and Torsos."

1977 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,800.00
276 Andy Warhol

[Andy Warhol.]

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
277 Christopher Makos

Portrait of Andy Warhol.

Circa 1980. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
278 Andy Warhol

America.

1985 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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