PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture | Total Sales (USD) | 169,900.00 |
| Auction Date | March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 146,800.00 |
| Sale Number | #809 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 228,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 455 | ||
| Sold Lots | 358 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 209,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.68% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 327,900.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 97 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 51.82% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 392 | Scrapbook of the Great Rajah Komekus |
1930s | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 401 | Wood, Ed Jr. | To Make a Homo |
1971 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 360 | Kerouac, Jack | Original handwritten letter from Jack Kerouac |
c.1963 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 369 | McDarrah, Fred | Poets, Writers, Editors at Living Theatre June 6, 1959 |
1959 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 398 | Wood, Ed Jr. | Raped in the Grass |
1968 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 145 | Tevis, Walter | The Queen's Gambit |
1983 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 316 | Bukowski, Charles | Crucifix in a Deathhand - one of twelves copies with original letter |
1965 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 399 | Wood, Ed Jr. | Sex Shrouds and Caskets |
1968 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 400 | Wood, Ed Jr. [as Dick Trent with Dr. T.K. Peters] | A Study Of The Sons And Daughters Of Erotica |
1971 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 410 | Collection of approx. 45 handbills, show tickets, postcards and pieces of rock ephemera |
Various dates | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,812.50 | |
| 317 | Bukowski, Charles | Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail |
1960 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 171 | Wilde, Oscar | Works |
1908 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 421 | Mouse, Stanley, Alton Kelley, and Rick Griffin | Trip or Freak |
1967 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 10 | Baldwin, James | Go Tell it on the Mountain - Advance Reading Copy |
1953 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 32 | Dostoieffsky, Fedor | Crime and Punishment: A Russian Realistic Novel |
1886 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 245 | Jones, Diana Wynne | Howl's Moving Castle |
1986 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 383 | Powell, William | The Anarchist Cookbook |
1980 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 235 | Hammett, Dashiell | The Glass Key |
1931 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 196 | Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game |
1985 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 172 | Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
1947 | USD 700.00 - 100.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 69 | Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
1952 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 229 | Gibson, William | Neuromancer |
1984 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 274 | Near complete set of scripts for the Planet of the Apes television series |
May 14-October 14, 1974 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
| 12 | Baldwin, James | Notes of a Native Son |
1955 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 393 | Whitney, David, editor | Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s |
1979 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
