PBA Galleries: Fine Literature: with Mystery & Sci-fi - Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture, 848, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025

Page Size: 533 items in 22 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Achebe, Chinua	No Longer at Ease	London	[1960]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 468.75
2	Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart	New York	[1959]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,750.00
3	Aldrich, Thomas Bailey	The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Cambridge	1897	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
4	Allen, Woody	Three by Woody Allen	New York	1967-1982	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
5	Allen, Woody	Three by Woody Allen	New York	1975-2007	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 343.75
6	Allende, Isabel	The House of the Spirits	New York	1985	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 312.50
7	Allison, Bob and Frank Ernest Hill	The Kid Who Batted 1,000	Garden City, New York	1951	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
8	Anaya, Rudolfo A.	Bless Me, Ultima	[Berkeley]	1972	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
9	Anderson, Sherwood	A Story Teller's Story	New York	1924	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
10	Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	New York	[1969]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 281.25
11	Baldwin, James	The Fire Next Time [with] Going to Meet the Man	New York	1963-1965	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
12	Baldwin, James	Giovanni's Room	New York	1956	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,625.00
13	Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain	New York	1953	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 750.00
14	Barrie, J.M.	Peter and Wendy	New York	[1911]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 750.00
15	Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot	London	[1956]	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 812.50
16	Bellow, Saul	The Adventures of Augie March	New York	1953	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
17	Bellow, Saul	Humboldt's Gift	New York	[1975]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
18	Bellow, Saul	The Victim	New York	[1947]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 437.50
19	[Bierce, Ambrose] Grile, Dod	Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California.	London	[1873]	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 625.00
20	Bourdain, Anthony	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly	New York	[2000]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
21	Bronte, Charlotte [and] Emily Bronte	Jane Eyre [and] Wuthering Heights	New York	1943	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00
22	Bell, Currer	Shirley. A Tale	London	1849	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 687.50
23	Bulgakov, Mikhail	The Master and Margarita	New York	[1967]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
24	[Burgess, Gelett, et al]	The Lark. Book I & Book II, Numbers 1-24, plus the Epi-Lark	San Francisco	1896-97	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 187.50
25	Camus, Albert	The Outsider	London	[1946]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 937.50

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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