SPECIAL DIGITAL SUPPLEMENT ISSUE 19.4 // AUTUMN 2021 ACROSS AMERICA WITH THE FB&C AUCTION Federal Writers’ guide Project Guides AUTUMN 2021 SWANN GALLERIES Highlighting Women’s Contributions POTTER & POTTER AUCTIONS Early Exploration Rarities HERITAGE AUCTIONS Pride of Place Pieces FORUM AUCTIONS A Graham Greene Collection HINDMAN AUCTIONS The Collection of Barry Moser Order Online at FineBooksMagazine.com/store Missed an issue? That’s OK! JUST $8 SETS STARTING AT Complete your collection of Fine Books & Collections today! PER ISSUE $30 PER YEAR Autumn 2021, 19.4 Auction Guide FineBooksMagazine.com EDITORIAL & ADMINISTRATION Contents • Autumn 2021 • www.finebooksmagazine.com 101 Europa Drive, Suite 150 Chapel Hill, NC 27517 TEL: (800) 662-4834 FAX: (919) 945-0701 PUBLISHER Webb C. 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All rights reserved. No part of Barry Moser • Edward Gorey • Bookish Instanbul Scripts • Billy Ireland • Hobart Book Village • Grateful Dead Archives • The Nation’s Bookbinder this magazine may be reprinted, photocopied, or Shasta Daylight Portland – San • Resource Guide • Gift Guide distributed in any manner without the express Francisco train, ca. 1950. Hindman to offer renowned artist’s written consent of Journalistic, Inc. Printed in the CREDIT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. personal collection in November sale. More Issues, Yearly Sets, and Slipcases Available Online at FineBooksMagazine.com/store United States. SPRING 2021 | 1 store house ad-autumn 2021.indd 2 8/7/21 2:34 PM FB&C AUCTION Swann Galleries@Auction guide AUTUMN 2021 from 1952-1970, which sold for $1,000 on an estimate of $300–$500 and nine Guerrilla Girls text posters, which sold Highlighting for $2,500 on an estimate of $400–$600. Women’s “The experience of gather- ing, valuing, and cataloguing Contributions material for Focus on Women surprised me,” Eastland said. “Something about the pro- Swann’s sale celebrating women’s cess of getting it all together achievements achieves strong results. and looking at books, art, Juanna Inés de la Cruz, Fama, y manuscripts, and ephemera Obras Posthumas del Fenix de through this lens changed Mexico Decima Musa, Poetisa his July, Devon Eastland, Obras Posthumas del Fenix de the material itself in my eyes.” Americana, Madrid, 1700. Sold for $81,250. Tsenior specialist of early Mexico, Decima Musa, Poetisa For example, Eastland said printed books at Swann Americana (1700), which sold Sarah Farro’s True Love, a Story Galleries, turned her atten- for $81,250 on an estimate of English Domestic Life (1891), tion toward a special sale, of $4,000–$6,000. Similarly, a presumed first–and possi- Focus on Women, highlight- an archive of letters by Jane bly only–edition of the work ing the contributions of those Russell written on sea voy- of a Black woman scholar, who identify as women in ages in the 1840s realized a is “nonexistent” on the rare diverse fields that book market and have shaped human “rare” even in librar- history. The sale fea- ies. This made the tured lots such as first book difficult to editions, manuscript estimate, but it material, archives, ultimately realized and works on paper a price of $8,750 by historically signif- on an estimate of icant writers, scien- $1,000–$2,000. Sarah E. Farro, True Love, a Story of English Domestic Life, Norman Lewis, Untitled (Gate Composition), oil on masonite board, 1947. $60,000 to $90,000. At auction October 7. tists, and artists from Eastland said Chicago, 1891. Sold for $8,750. various fields rang- cataloguing wom- Fall 2021 Auctions ing from before 1800 en’s work in the beneath the pile was incred- through the contem- sciences was par- ibly rewarding,” Eastland said, porary era. ticularly eye-open- “and I will always be proud of SEPT 21 The Virginia Zabriskie Collection NOV 9 Contemporary Artists’ Books Buyers responded ing and satisfying, my work to reconnect Mary The Property of a Texas Collector positively, resulting especially in the Morris Clayton’s photo album SEPT 30 Printed & Manuscript Americana in a resounding suc- case of three glass- to her impressive life’s work NOV 16 Contemporary Art Guild of Women Binders, exhibition binding of A.F. cess for Swann. Not Pollard’s Henry VIII, London, 1902. Sold for $12,350. plate astronomi- in physiology and nutrition. OCT 7 African American Art only did the auction cal photographs When the collection of 400 NOV 23 Rare & Important Travel Posters realize sales totaling $333,893 price of $30,000 on an esti- (1899), which realized $688 photographs (c. 1893-1993, OCT 14 Early Printed Books on estimates of $167,250– mate of $3,000–$5,000, and on an estimate of $300–$500, realized $780 on estimate of DEC 2 Modern & Post-War Art $248,650, but out of 178 lots, A.F. Pollard’s Henry VIII in a because they were presented $300–$500) reached me, it OCT 21 Fine Photographs 136 were sold, achieving a Guild of Women Binders with the names of men who was simply an object of curi- DEC 9 Maps & Atlases, Natural History & 78-percent sell-through