PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture, 809, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024
Page Size: 455 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adams, Leonie

Those Not Elect

New York 1925 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
2 Du Bois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk, Essays and Sketches

New York 1953 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
3

Photographic portraits of six nineteenth-century American authors

c.1870 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
4 Appleton, Victor

Five volumes in the Motion Picture Chums series

New York USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
5 Atwood, Margaret

The Edible Woman

Toronto 1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
6 Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale

Toronto 1985 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
7 Atwood, Margaret

The Journals of Susanna Moodie

Toronto 1970 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
8

Two broadsides issued by The-Poem-of-the-Month-Club

London Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
9

Nine literary autographs

Various places Various dates USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
10 Baldwin, James

Go Tell it on the Mountain - Advance Reading Copy

New York 1953 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
11 Baldwin, James

If Beale Street Could Talk

New York 1974 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
12 Baldwin, James

Notes of a Native Son

Boston 1955 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,250.00
13 Jones, LeRoi

Home: Social Essays

New York 1966 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
14 Beardsley, Aubrey

Die Ballade vom Barbier : The Ballad of a Barber

[Frankfurt am Main] 1966 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
15 Beckett, Samuel

The Lost Ones

London 1972 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
16 Bogan, Louise

Body of This Death: Poems

New York 1923 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
17 Bowles, Jane

Two Serious Ladies

New York 1943 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
18 Vetsch, Florian

Desultory Correspondence: An Interview with Paul Bowles on Gertrude Stein

Zurich 1997 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
19 Bowles, Paul

A Little Stone

London 1950 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 375.00
20 Bowles, Paul

The Spider's House

New York 1955 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
21 Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Descent of Man [with] Water Music: A Novel

Boston 1979; 1981 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
22 Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

New York 1965 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 375.00
23 Coetzee, J.M.

Dusklands

Johannesburg 1974 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
24 Conrad, Joseph

To Poland in War-Time: A Journey Into the East

London 1919 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
25 Coover, Robert

Charlie in the House of Rue

[Lincoln, MA] 1980 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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