Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries November 17
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Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries November 17
Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, first edition, inscribed to Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the day after publication, presentation copy from Dickens’ first United States tour, London, 1842. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.



NEW YORK, NY.- Fine Books & Manuscripts are at Swann Galleries Tuesday, November 17, with standout material amongst autographs, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, as well as art books.

Autographs from important moments in American history include Revolutionary War material, with a 1777 partially-printed document signed by John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress issuing an uncommon privateer commission giving “Licence and Authority . . . to attack, seize, and take the Ships and other Vessels belonging to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain . . . to some convenient Ports in the . . . Colonies . . .” ($6,000-9,000); and a 1792 autograph letter signed by Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury, helping the bank of the United States to quell the Panic of 1792—America’s first financial crisis ($8,000-12,000).

U.S. presidents are present with a 1794 partially-printed document signed by George Washington, as President, and countersigned by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State ($15,000-25,000); an 1863 partly-printed document signed by Abraham Lincoln ordering New York to furnish 2,050 troops, signed in the weeks following the New York City draft riots ($15,000-25,000); a striking portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a young man, probably taken during his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, signed and inscribed to a friend, dated 1920 ($800-1,200); and a United States Senate Restaurant menu signed and inscribed by John F. Kennedy ($1,000-1,500).




Also of note are items from Brigham Young, and a photograph postcard signed by Blackfoot chief Two Guns White Calf with his pictogram. Authors Ezra Pound, Antone de Saint-Exupéry, George Bernard Shaw, and others, as well as material from artists Alexander Calder, Grandma Moses, René Magritte, and more round out the selection of autographs.

Following the success of Jane Austen first editions in a February sale, the house will be offering first editions and scarce early printings of all of Austen’s major works. Most notably Sense and Sensibility, 1811 ($30,000-40,000), and Pride and Prejudice, 1813 ($20,000-30,000). Virginia Woolf is well represented with several signed limited-edition copies: A Room of One’s Own, 1929, limited large-paper edition ($3,000-4,000), and Kew Gardens, 1927, signed by both Woolf and Vanessa Bell ($1,500-2,000). A first edition Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, with a signed and inscribed leaf laid in loose,1960 ($4,000-6,000) also features.

Additional nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature include a first edition of Charles Dickens’s American Notes for General Circulation, 1842—a presentation copy from Dickens’s first American tour inscribed the day after publication to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (an American lawyer, politician from Massachusetts, and author of the memoir Two Years Before the Mast) ($30,000-40,000). A first edition of John Keats’s third and last book published in his lifetime, Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820 ($3,000-4,000); and Lord Byron’s Don Juan, Cantos I-XVI, 1823–24, complete in six volumes ($2,000-3,000) are available. Early George Cruikshank original drawings, many signed, feature as well.

Among art and illustrated books is the deluxe issue of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1922, illustrated by Elihu Vedder—one of just 100 produced ($3,000-4,000); Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces, 1978, signed by Willem de Kooning, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joan Miro and Ivan Albright, and signed and inscribed by Marc Chagall, one of 100 signed copies ($3,000-4,000); Alexandre Raymond’s rarely seen complete L’Art Islamique en Orient, first edition, two volumes, 1922–24 ($3,000-4,000), and La Rue Norvins à Montmartre, 1952, by Maurice Utrillo ($2,000-3,000).

Limited previewing (by appointment only) will be available through November 16, to be scheduled directly with the specialist in advance and conforming to strict safety guidelines.










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