Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2732, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
| 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 |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.