PBA Galleries: Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the Glenn Todd Collection of Arion Press
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the Glenn Todd Collection of Arion Press | Total Sales (USD) | 211,734.00 |
Auction Date | January 10, 2019 - January 10, 2019 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 154,040.00 |
Sale Number | #663 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 246,900.00 |
Total Lots | 433 | ||
Sold Lots | 371 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 187,270.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 85.68% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 297,600.00 |
Unsold Lots | 62 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 71.15% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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23 | Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale |
1979 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 14,400.00 |
319 | Twain, Mark | A Tramp Abroad |
1880 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
3 | Yeats, William Butler | Poems of W.B. Yeats with additional suite of six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn |
1990 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 9,000.00 |
19 | Joyce, James | Ulysses |
1988 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,000.00 |
302 | Thomas, Dylan | Collected Poems 1934-1952 |
1952 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 7,800.00 |
298 | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly - with laid in inscription |
1852 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,600.00 |
6 | Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme | The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy - with color lithograph by Wayne Thiebaud |
1994 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 5,400.00 |
175 | Grafton, Sue | Complete collection of Sue Grafton's Alphabet series books, most inscribed, plus correspondence, ephemera, and a copy of her first book |
1967- 2017 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,100.00 |
77 | Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2 |
1930 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
159 | [Emerson, Ralph Waldo] | Nature |
1836 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
270 | Patchen, Kenneth | Poems of Humor & Protest |
[1956] | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
308 | Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
1876 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
332 | Wolfe, Tom | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - signed by Wolfe and Kesey |
[1968] | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
10 | Dine, Jim, artist | The Temple of Flora |
1984 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
331 | Williams, John | Stoner |
[1965] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
4 | Abbott, Edwin A. | Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. |
1980 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
1 | Lithographic print by John Baldessari to accompany the Arion Press edition of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy |
1988 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 | |
94 | Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women. Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. |
1868 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
201 | [Irving, Washington] | The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
1819-1820 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
276 | Puzo, Mario | The Godfather |
[1969] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
330 | Williams, John | Nothing But The Night |
1948 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
56 | Ginsberg, Allen | Howl for Carl Solomon |
[1971] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
17 | Grayson, Andrew Jackson | Birds of the Pacific Slope |
1986 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
112 | Bierce, Ambrose | Can Such Things Be? - presentation copy |
[1893] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
279 | Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged |
[1957] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |