Swann Galleries: The Artists of the WPA, 2727, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Designer Unknown | Designer Unknown, USA Work Program, circa 1936. |
circa 1936. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 2 | Will Barnet | Will Barnet, Desolation, 1935. |
1935 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 3 | Joseph Biel | Joseph Biel, The Watchman. |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 4 | Leonard Pytlak | Leonard Pytlak, Keeping Warm, circa 1936. |
circa 1936. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 5 | Robert Game | Robert James Malone, Alabama Crap Game, circa 1940. |
circa 1940. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 6 | Philip Evergood | Philip Howard Evergood, Farmer's Sorrow, 1938. |
1938 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 561.00 | |
| 7 | Peggy Bacon | Peggy Bacon, Tired Eyes, 1935. |
1935 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 8 | Margaret Bourke-White | Margaret Bourke-White, The American Way of Life (At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Kentucky), 1937; printed 1980s. |
1937; printed 1980s. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,842.00 | |
| 9 | Marion Post Wolcott | Marion Post Wolcott, Migrants waiting in line to be paid off for picking cotton, near Mileston, Mississippi, 1939; printed 1978. |
1939; printed 1978. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,905.00 | |
| 10 | Seymour Fogel | Seymour Fogel, Untitled, 1940. |
1940 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Eli Jacobi | Eli Jacobi, A Nap, 1936. |
1936 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 528.00 | |
| 12 | Seymour Fogel | Seymour Fogel, New York No. 1, 1936. |
1936 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 13 | Julius Thiengen Bloch | Julius Bloch, Resting, 1930. |
1930 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,079.00 | |
| 14 | Hyman J. Warsager | Hyman Warsager, Preserve the Initiative for Children, circa 1937. |
circa 1937. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 825.00 | |
| 15 | Rockwell Kent | Rockwell Kent, And Now Where? 1936. |
1936 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,651.00 | |
| 16 | Jack Delano | Jack Delano, A family standing in a doorway, 1930s. |
1930s. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,540.00 | |
| 17 | Charles Randolph (1930) Pollock | Charles Pollock, Man at the Well, circa 1930. |
circa 1930. | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,143.00 | |
| 18 | Joseph (1911) Vogel | Joseph Vogel, Man on Pier, 1934. |
1934 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 571.00 | |
| 19 | Dorothea Lange | A selection of 4 photographs by Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Arnold Eagle/David Robbins, and Arthur Rothstein, 1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s. |
1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s. | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,286.00 | |
| 20 | Arthur Rothstein | Arthur Rothstein, Son of a Sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas * Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas, 1935. |
1935 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,794.00 | |
| 21 | Arthur (1929) Lange | A selection of 13 F.S.A. photographs by Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott, as well as 5 unidentified works, circa 1935-40. |
circa 1935-40. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,032.00 | |
| 22 | Stevan Dohanos | Stevan Dohanos, Man of the Soil, 1935. |
1935 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,206.00 | |
| 23 | Carroll Cloar | Carroll Cloar, Early Arkansan, circa 1940. |
circa 1940. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 4,064.00 | |
| 24 | Dorothea Lange | Dorothea Lange, Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. |
June 1938; printed circa 1970. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 25 | Dorothea Lange | Dorothea Lange, Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. |
June 1938; printed circa 1970. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
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Heritage, May 13: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. The dedication copy, inscribed to John W. Campbell, Jr.Heritage, May 13: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. A fine copy, in a brilliant dust jacket.Heritage, May 13: Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.Heritage, May 13: Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. A fine copy, signed by the author.Heritage, May 13: Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Exceedingly rare true first American edition, first issue. -
Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 16. Blaeu's world map on a polar projection in contemporary color (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 55. Illuminated lunar globe produced in East Germany (1977) Est. $750 - $900Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 594. Rare and decorative De Jode map of Africa (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 127. The first printed map to focus on New England and New France (1565) Est. $4,500 - $5,500Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 298. Rare Texas oilfield map (1920) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 656. Bible leaf with hand-colored image of Adoration of the Magi (1450) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 9. Blaeu's magnificent carte-a-figures world map (1641) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 214. Rare edition of view of the world from Silicon Valley (1984) Est. $600 - $750Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 34. Fascinating Japanese satirical map published just prior to WWII (1938) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 181. German edition of Catesby's scarce and important map of the Southeastern US (1755) Est. $3,750 - $4,500Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 625. Complete set of Covarrubias's "Pageant of the Pacific" (1940-39) Est. $1,200 - $1,500 -
Jeschke Jádi
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Saturday April 25Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1153 Gerhard Mercator u. Jodocus Hondius. Atlas sive cosmographicae. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1606.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1378 Martin Höhlig, Collection of 100 photographs Berlin im Licht, 1928.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 192. Fragment of a late medieval liturgical music manuscript. 14th centuryJeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1394 Auguste Salzmann. Jérusalem. 40 salt paper prints. Paris, Baudry, 1856.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1143 Deluxe edition of Prince Waldemar of Prussia's travelogue about Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Berlin, 1853.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1225. Koch-Gruenberg. Indianertypen (Indiantypesin the Amazon). Berlin 1906.Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 862. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo. Amsterdam 1765.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 549. Francisco de Goya. Los desastres de la guerra. 80 Etchings. Madrid, 1923.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1033. Rösel von Rosenhof. Natural History of Frogs. Nuremberg, 1815.Jeschke Jádi
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Saturday April 25Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 13 Pomponius Mela. Cosmographi. Venice, Renner 1478.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 526 William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Cranach Press, 1928.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1022. Eugen Johann Christoph Esper. Butterflies Leipzig, 1829-1839. -
Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026Swann, Apr. 23: Thomas Heywood. An Apology for Actors. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, Apr. 23: Illuminated Islamic Devotional Manuscript. 19th century. Approx. 90 leaves with gilt-decorated title and 2 full page miniatures of Mecca and Medina. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Apr. 23: Antiphonal in Latin. Manuscript on Parchment. Cologne, early 16th century. $7,000 to $9,000.Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026Swann, Apr. 23: Mohammed ibn Jafir Albategnius. De Scientia Stellarum Liber. Bologna: Victor Benati, 1645. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, Apr. 23: Frank Herbert. Dune. Fine First Edition. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $5,000 to $7,000.Swann, Apr. 23: William Shakespeare. Five Plays from the Second Folio. London: Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632. $6,000 to $8,000.Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026Swann, Apr. 23: John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First edition, first issue. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Apr. 23: Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. With an A.L.S. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue. $1,200 to $1,800.Swann, Apr. 23: Ursula K. LeGuin. The Left Hand of Darkness. Inscribed First Edition. New York: Walker and Company, 1969. $800 to $1,200.Swann
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April 23, 2026Swann, Apr. 23: L. Frank Baum & Ruth Plumly Thompson. Five First Canadian editions including Ozma of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of Oz; [and others]. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann, Apr. 23: Corita Kent. Different Drummer. 1967. Color screenprint; signed "Corita" in pencil on the lower edge. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann, Apr. 23: Bible in English. Tyndale-Taverner Translation. The Bugge Bible. The Holye Bible. London: Imprinted by John Daye and Willyam Seres, 1549. $1,500 to $2,000. -
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Précieuses reliures d’une bibliophile
Collection Georgette J. Salles
Open for bidding 8-29 AprilApr. 8-29: Delaunay, Sonia — Blaise Cendrars. La Prose du Transsibérien. 1913. €120,000 to €180,000.Apr. 8-29: Picasso, Pablo — Georges Hugnet. La Chèvre-feuille. 1943. €80,000 to €120,000.Apr. 8-29: Schmied, François-Louis ─ Joseph-Charles Mardrus. Cantique des cantiques. 1925. €30,000 to €50,000.Apr. 8-29: Bonnard, Pierre — Paul Verlaine. Parallèlement. 1900. €30,000 to €50,000.Apr. 8-29: Derain, André — Guillaume Apollinaire. L’Enchanteur pourrissant. 1909. €20,000 to €30,000.