Swann Galleries: Fine Photographs, 2684, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 31, 2024 - October 31, 2024
Page Size: 315 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 EDWARD SCHWARTZ (1906-2005)

Grand Central #2.

Circa 1948-49 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
127 WILLIAM KLEIN (1928-2022)

El, 67th Street, New York.

1955; printed later USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
128 LOUIS STETTNER (1922-2016)

Penn Station.

1958; printed 1990s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
129 BRUCE DAVIDSON (1933- )

The Bridge, New York.

1963; printed 2000s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
130 RUTH ORKIN (1921-1985)

Couple in Snow, Central Park.

1970; printed before 1983 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
131 TOM BARIL (1952- )

59th Street Bridge (Queensboro Bridge).

1995 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
132 ABELARDO MORELL (1948- )

Camera Obscura Image of Manhattan View, Looking West in Empty Room.

1996 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
133 TOM BARIL (1952- )

Chrysler Building at Night.

1997; printed 2004 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
134 A scrapbook with 14 photos of Hanni Kohler, a famous 1920s German motorcycle racer with 10 world records. Circa 1926-29.

Echo Continental

(MOTORCYCLE RACER) USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
135 AUGUST SANDER (1876-1964)

Jungbauern [Young Farmers], Westerwald.

1914; printed 1987 by Gunther Sander USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 Not Sold
136 ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)

Toy Train Society, Berlin.

1931; printed 1989 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
137 ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990)

One of the People of the Book, Warsaw.

1938; printed circa 1977 USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
138 A mugshot album Foreign Photographs with approximately 1,470 photographs from the Victoria Police Station, British Columbia. 1913-25.

Foreign Photographs

with approximately 1,470 photographs from the Victoria Police Station, British Columbia USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
140 WEEGEE [ARTHUR FELLIG] (1899-1968)

Fire Rescue, New York.

Circa 1940; printed 1960s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
141 WEEGEE [ARTHUR FELLIG] (1899-1968)

Murder in Hell's Kitchen.

1941 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
142 ESTHER BUBLEY (1921-1998)

A pair of photographs taken in Greyhound Bus Terminals.

1943; printed 1980s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
143 GEORGE GILBERT (1922-2012)

Black veteran.

Circa 1945 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
144 ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)

An American Block, Hamilton, Ohio.

1943; printed 1995 USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
145 ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)

Boys at Dancing School, Waterbury, Connecticut.

1945; printed 1990 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
146 J.L. MUTZBAUER (1884-1965)

Approximately 500 commercial portraits, likely made for employee badges, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1940s-50s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
147 ROBERT CAPA (1913-1954)

Widows with children grieving and weeping over a soldier's grave in a military cemetery, Namdinh, Indochina.

1954; printed circa 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
148 ROBERT FRANK (1924-2019)

Washington, D.C., Inauguration (for Dwight D. Eisenhower).

1957; printed before 1978 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
149 BRUCE DAVIDSON (1933- )

Child on a Front Porch Playing with her Doll Baby, Shelby County, Tennessee.

1962; printed 1999 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
150 DANNY LYON (1942- )

Leesburg, Georgia. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside.

1963; printed 1996 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
151 DAVID STEEN (1936-2015)

Mother of James Powell, who was shot and killed by a white policeman. New York.

Summer 1964 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD