PBA Galleries: Fine Literature and Fine Books
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Fine Literature and Fine Books | Total Sales (USD) | 261,102.00 |
Auction Date | January 11, 2018 - January 11, 2018 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 239,130.00 |
Sale Number | #633 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 371,500.00 |
Total Lots | 721 | ||
Sold Lots | 585 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 342,150.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 81.14% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 528,100.00 |
Unsold Lots | 136 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 49.44% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
201 | Thoreau, Henry David | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods |
1854 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 14,400.00 |
210 | Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) |
1885 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 7,200.00 |
526 | Gibbon, Edward | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
1776-1788 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 7,200.00 |
183 | Steinbeck, John | Ten autographed cards |
No date | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 6,600.00 |
339 | Gibran, Kahlil | The Prophet - A rare inscribed copy |
1929 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 5,100.00 |
29 | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates |
1687 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
178 | Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
[1937] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
202 | Thoreau, Henry David | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
1849 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,900.00 |
291 | Bishop, Elizabeth | North & South |
1946 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
156 | Shakespeare, William | The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift |
[1632] | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
292 | Bishop, Elizabeth | North Haven. In Memoriam Robert Lowell - Copy number 1 plus the printer's proofs, etc. |
1979 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
52 | Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette". |
[1912] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
126 | Milton, John | Paradise Lost. In Ten Books. The Text exactly reproduced from the first edition of 1667 |
1873 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
45 | Dickens, Charles | The Christmas Numbers from Household Words (1850-59) and All the Year Round (1859-67), complete. The Jean Hersholt set. |
1850-1867 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
89 | Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book |
1894 & 1895 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
96 | Le Carré, John | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
1963 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
199 | Thoreau, Henry David | The Maine Woods. |
1864 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
316 | Creeley, Robert | Pictures |
2001 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
319 | Dunbar, Paul [Laurence] | Oak and Ivy |
1893 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
322 | Duncan, Robert | The Song of the Border-Guard |
1952 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
243 | Verne, Jules | The Green Ray |
1883 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
477 | [Wilde, Oscar] | The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. |
1898 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
423 | Merton, Thomas, translator | What Ought I Do? Sayings of the Desert Falters, from the Collection in Migne's Latin Patrology |
[1959] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
172 | Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
[1939] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
206 | Traven, B. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1935 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,560.00 |