Browsing Tag Ernest Hemingway

October 3, 2024

This fall’s sale promises to tempt with bibliographic rarities from before the invention of movable type through the twentieth century.

December 22, 2021

As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales.

March 2, 2021

The house closed out February 2021 with an exceptional sale of Fine Books & Autographs, which saw a 90% sell-through rate and exceeded the total high estimate, bringing in…

February 3, 2021

Featuring fine autographs by Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, alongside literature and art books by Joseph Albers,…

August 27, 2019

Remarkable firsts in unrestored dust jackets by Barnaby Ross, Owen Wister, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, plus well-loved titles by Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Kurt…

November 15, 2018

Signed & Inscribed Oscar Wilde Play Leads Literature Auction SciFi Works Continue to Prove to be Popular in Swann Literature Sales   Book collectors from far and wide…

November 12, 2018

Letters from a Young Kurt Vonnegut Top Autographs Auction Collectors Drawn to Autographs of Innovators   Our auction of Autographs on Thursday, November 8 saw major interest…

October 3, 2018

At Auction November 13 Complete Catalogue   Highlights   A first edition of Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf, 1904, debuts at auction in its exceedingly rare dust jacket…

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June 25, 2018

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently…

May 17, 2018

Science fiction ruled on May 15 at our auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. Selections from the Estate of Stanley Simon, featuring 84 rare and first editions of…