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PBA Galleries: Fine Literature with Beats & the Counterculture
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Auction Name | Fine Literature with Beats & the Counterculture | Total Sales (USD) | 278,168.75 |
Auction Date | January 13, 2022 - January 13, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 185,200.00 |
Sale Number | #752 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 289,000.00 |
Total Lots | 458 | ||
Sold Lots | 418 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 199,600.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 91.27% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 311,900.00 |
Unsold Lots | 40 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 89.19% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
90 | Ruskin, John | Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton |
1904 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
347 | Bukowski, Charles | 100 Dollar Stuff - original typescript story |
[1971] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
29 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | The Beasts of Tarzan |
1916 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 5,937.50 |
142 | Herbert, Frank | Dune |
[1965] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,937.50 |
231 | Reed, John | Ten Days That Shook the World |
1919 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 4,687.50 |
150 | Highsmith, Patricia | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
[1955] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
202 | McCarthy, Cormac | Eight volumes in wrappers signed by Cormac McCarthy |
Various dates | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
286 | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly |
1852 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
134 | Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1940 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
204 | Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick or the White Whale |
[1892] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
137 | Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
1952 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
141 | Herbert, Frank | Dune |
[1965] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
250 | 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 3,125.00 |
168 | Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book / The Second Jungle Book |
1894, 1895 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
53 | Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
[1968] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
37 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | The Outlaw of Torn - Inscribed |
1927 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
25 | Burke, James Lee | Half of Paradise |
1965 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
43 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Tarzan and the Leopard Men |
[1935] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
156 | Jackson, Shirley | The Haunting of Hill House |
1959 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
368 | Bukowski, Charles | Original signed typescript letter |
March 6, 1972 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
47 | Cather, Willa | Autograph letter |
mid 1940s | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
71 | Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Sign of Four |
1890 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
152 | Howard, Robert E. | Set of seven Conan books by Gnome Press |
1950-1957 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
321 | Wolfe, Thomas | Typed letter |
1934 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
113 | Guthrie, Woody | Bound for Glory |
1943 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,875.00 |