Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2732, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
Page Size: 366 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51

Rally for Justice for Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party.

Oakland, CA 28 July [1968] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
52

Group of 7 Huey Newton rally fliers plus a bumper sticker.

Oakland, CA circa May-July 1968 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
53

Black Liberation and White Racism.

Berkeley, CA [1968] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
54

Cleaver for President. Power to the People, Black Power to Black People.

San Francisco [1968] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 762.00
55 Bill Olive, artist.

Happy Birthday, Huey P. Newton '69.

[Los Angeles?] 1969 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
56

Group of Black Panther and student radical ephemera.

Various places 1969-1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
57 Emory Douglas.

Afro-American Solidarity with the Oppressed People of the World.

San Francisco, CA: 1969 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
58 Emory Douglas.

One of Our Main Purposes is to Unify Our Brothers and Sisters.

San Francisco, CA: circa 1969 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
59

The Black Panther Manifesto.

San Francisco, CA circa 1970 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 508.00
60

George Pennewell. You Can't Convert a Man . . Because You Have Silenced Him.

Print Mint 1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,556.00
61

Group of 4 scarce posters from the Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970 and undated

1970 and undated USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 825.00
62

Free the Panther 21.

[New York?] circa 1969-1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
63

Wanted by the FBI: Interstate Flight--Murder, Kidnaping, Angela Yvonne Davis.

Washington 1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 6,858.00
64

Sweet Sister Courage Angela.

No place circa 1970-1971 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
65

The Jewish People and Angela Davis.

Los Angeles circa 1971 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
66

1919: Rosa Luxemburg Murdered / 1972: Prevent the Murder of Angela Davis.

No place 1972 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 476.00
67

Free the Soledad Brothers.

Berkeley, CA [1970-71] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 825.00
68

Revolutionary Memorial Services for George Jackson.

Oakland, CA 1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
69

George Jackson 1941-1971 / A Song in Blood and Tears.

San Francisco 1972 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 635.00
70 David Mosley.

George Jackson, Field Marshal, Black Panther Party.

[Los Angeles 1971] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
71

George Jackson Lives . Attica Means Fight Back.

No place circa 1972 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
72

Black Panther Party, an FBI document.

[Washington] 1971-03-01 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,159.00
73 Safiya A. Bukhari.

Lest We Forget.

No place circa 1982 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 412.00
74 Robert Williams, editor.

The Crusader Monthly Newsletter.

New York / Cuba 1962-1965 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
75

Three issues of the Communist monthly Black Flag.

San Francisco 1965 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.