Books & Manuscripts
Swann Ushers in a New Era of Live Online Sales with Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Our Thursday, May 7, 2020 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana was held live online and was conducted …
Introduction to Bookbinding: Folding & Sewing
As a bibliophile expands their collection, they gain a feel for auction house and bookseller’s catalogues, whi…
Printed & Manuscript African Americana: Rescheduled for May 2020
Among the highlights will be an 1836 autograph book with inscriptions by noted early African-American orators Moses …
Why do old books use F’s instead of S’s?
Or, WTſ? It’s a common source of confusion: “I have this book, and it’s really old, and all of the s’s are f’s, so I…
Romare Bearden’s Letters to Art Historian Harry B. Henderson, Jr.
Here we take look at letters, postcards and greeting cards from Romare Bearden to his longtime friend and collaborat…
Old Diaries Tell the Stories of Overlooked Americans
The value of diaries on the market is largely driven by historical content and the quality of the writing. What coul…
Listen to Tapes of a 1961 Interview with Leaders of the Atlanta Student Movement
On June 8, 1961, a journalist for The Protestant Hour, a long-running and widely syndicated weekly radio program out…
Before O. Henry: William Sydney Porter’s First Professional Commission
William Sydney Porter, best known to posterity as the author O. Henry, was raised in North Carolina and moved west t…
Jane Austen Rules Winter 2020 Fine Books & Manuscripts
Swann Galleries saw a successful sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts on Thursday, February 20 with literature and …
A Novel, By a Lady: Jane Austen First Editions
For the first time in nearly a decade, first editions all six of Jane Austen’s major novels will be offered in…
Sarojini Naidu’s Galley Proof of ‘The Broken Wing’
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian writer and politician, born in Hyderabad, India in 1879. She wrote widely admired, movi…
Printed & Manuscript Americana: Winter-Spring 2020 Highlights
This sale covers American history from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, with a diploma from the Princeton Class…