PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Bukowski, Beats & the Counterculture
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Fine Literature - Bukowski, Beats & the Counterculture | Total Sales (USD) | 239,478.00 |
Auction Date | October 21, 2021 - October 21, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 202,900.00 |
Sale Number | #744 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 317,600.00 |
Total Lots | 501 | ||
Sold Lots | 367 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 268,100.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 73.25% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 418,600.00 |
Unsold Lots | 134 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 57.21% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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438 | Bukowski, Charles | Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail - inscribed to Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb |
1960 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 16,800.00 |
184 | Stein, Gertrude | Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia |
[1912] | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 14,400.00 |
178 | Stein, Gertrude | The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress |
1926 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 6,600.00 |
12 | Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
[1953] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,400.00 |
173 | Stein, Gertrude | Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded: Written on a Poem by Georges Hugnet |
[1931] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
233 | Toklas, Alice B. | The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book |
1954 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,200.00 |
417 | Bukowski, Charles | At Terror Street and Agony Way |
1968 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,900.00 |
436 | Bukowski, Charles | Factotum |
1975 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
387 | Bukowski, Charles | Original manuscript poem - About a Non-Typing Night |
[1984] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
468 | Bukowski, Charles | Original ink drawing by Charles Bukowski |
[n.d.] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
495 | Bukowski, Charles | Women |
1978 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
130 | McCarthy, Cormac | No Country for Old Men |
2005 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
472 | Bukowski, Charles | Post Office |
1971 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
222 | Steinbeck, John | To A God Unknown |
[1933] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
32 | Cather, Willa | My Ántonia |
1918 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
37 | Coutts, John | Bizarre. A Fashion Fantasia. 26 issues. |
1946-1958 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
463 | Bukowski, Charles | Original ink drawing by Charles Bukowski |
[n.d.] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
2 | Omar Khayyam | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
1973 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
131 | Melville, Herman | The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade |
1857 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
469 | Bukowski, Charles | Original signed typescript letter with envelope |
Nov. 20, 1972 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
353 | Manson, Charles | “An Open Letter to Tim Leary” |
[c. October 1970] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
453 | Bukowski, Charles | Longshot Poems for Broke Players |
[1962] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
389 | Bukowski, Charles & Neeli Cherry, editors | Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns – complete, all 3 issues inscribed |
1969-1971 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
188 | Stein, Gertrude | Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms |
1914 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
106 | London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
1903 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |