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 …

Books & Manuscripts

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 …

Books & Manuscripts

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…

African American Art

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…

Books & Manuscripts

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The value of diaries on the market is largely driven by historical content and the quality of the writing.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…

Reel-to-Reel tape of interview

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…

Books & Manuscripts

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…

19th & 20th Century Literature

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 …

19th & 20th Century Literature

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…

Autographs

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

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…