Browsing Tag Books & Manuscripts

June 12, 2025

Bella Savignano walks us through Joan Wyatt’s ‘Middle Earth Album’ and her original art depicting scenes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the…

June 10, 2025

With the end of World War II and the advent of the Korean War, the return of soldiers to the U.S. created a market for popular reading focused on adventure, masculinity, and…

January 21, 2025

How do you assess your rare book collection and know if it’s right for sale at auction? At Swann Galleries, we receive many inquiries from folks wondering what to do with…

January 8, 2025

2024 was an eventful year for Swann that brought about exciting changes, including the reorganization of our Fine Art Department, which saw Nigel Freeman step in as the head of…

May 15, 2024

Devon Eastland, specialist for our Focus on Women auction, touches on the special nature of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and the differences between Brontë's female characters…

February 12, 2024

One of our largest African Americana auctions to date includes important documentation of the abolition movement, catalogues and posters for exhibits by leading Black artists,…

January 31, 2024

Nicholas D. Lowry shares his picks for The Subculture Sale. Bidding open now through February 8.

December 19, 2023

Swann Galleries continued to offer exceptional auctions of quality material in 2023. The year featured several collections, including a special selection of 100 works from the…

October 11, 2023

Devon Eastland shares her picks for the October 12, 2023, sale of Early Printed books. Gothic Novels If you’ve read through our offerings for the October 12, 2023, sale, you know…

October 4, 2023

One of the best-known modern Romanian historians, Nicolae Iorga, has the distinction of being one of the few scholars of his day or before to document the lives of educated…