NEW YORK CITY — Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction, conducted on March 20, presented 403 lots of material related to American civil rights leaders, photographs and other ephemera documenting the era of Black enslavement and other important artifacts of Black history in America. At the top of the sale was a spring 1958 edition of Victor Green’s indispensable The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, published in New York with 80 directory pages plus four pages of illustrations at the center fold. Per the catalog, this edition “was printed as a special promotional giveaway by the Esso Standard Oil Company,” a Black-owned filling station in Buffalo, N.Y. With provenance to the consignor’s grandmother, this Green Book, with its original colored wrappers, more than doubled its high estimate, realizing $62,500, including buyer’s premium — a record for any edition of the book ($20/30,000). Additional results from the auction will run in a future issue.