Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2663, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024
Page Size: 470 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Huey Newton

Free Huey Celebration . . . at the Plaza.

. 1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 438.00
52 Earl, artist. Angela Davis

Angela Davis.

Los Angeles CA circa early 1970s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
53 Kenneth Mosley, artist; Angela Davis

Poster featuring three portraits of Angela Davis.

Detroit MI 1970 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
54 Ericka Huggins

A flier and a song in support of Ericka Huggins at her New Haven trial.

No place 1969 and 1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,375.00
55

Free All Political Prisoners, Free Bobby, Free Ericka, March in New Haven.

New Haven CT 1971 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,875.00
56

Power to the People, Dhoruba N.Y. Panther 21 Arm.

New York? circa 1969-1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
57

Free the Soledad Brothers.

Oakland CA circa 1970-71 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
58

Group of pinbacks, decorated electrical outlets, and a flier from the Detroit branch of the Panthers.

Detroit MI circa 1968-1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
59

Pair of Detroit Black Panther signs printed on cardboard.

Detroit MI circa 1972 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
60

Pair of wooden signs and a doormat from the Detroit Black Panthers.

Detroit MI circa 1970s USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 688.00
61 Steve Starr, photographer

"Campus Guns," showing Cornell activists ending their occupation of a school building.

Ithaca NY 1969 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,125.00
62

4 issues of "The Afro American Journal: The Northwest Voice of the Black Community Blacks."

Seattle WA 1970 to 1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
63

Pair of documents on the founding of the Republic of New Afrika.

Detroit MI 1968-1969 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,000.00
64

Free the Land!! And the RNA 11 Will Follow.

No place 1972 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
65

Group of ephemera from the Republic of New Afrika.

Washington and elsewhere 1978-1979 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 563.00
66

Support Black Liberation--Free Assata Shakur--Free Sundiata Acoli. Break the Chains.

New York? circa 1974-1979 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
67 Aquito T. Varner, artist

By Any Means Necessary.

Detroit MI 1973 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 688.00
68

Poster of the Statue of Liberty giving the raised-fist Black Power salute.

New York 1969 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
69 R. Baker, artist

Unity Now!

Topanga CA circa 1969 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 469.00
70

Group of 6 posters.

Various places 1970-1972 and undated USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
71 Elijah H. Holmes

Letters of a Texas college professor who dreams of becoming an blacksmith in booming Boley, Oklahoma.

Wisconsin and Texas 1902-1906 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
72 Paul E. Johnson

A Black inventor writes in support of the immigration status of his German employee.

Chicago 1924 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
73 Clilan B. Powell

Photographs of Harlem physician and business leader Clilan B. Powell.

Various places 1944-1960 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
74

Pin-up wall thermometer advertising W.B. Johnson Motorcycles, the first Black-owned Harley Davidson dealer.

Somers NY circa 1950 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 469.00
75

Archive of stockholder material from the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative supermarket.

New York 1968-1969 and undated USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
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