PBA Galleries: Fine Literature with the Counterculture & the Residents, 852, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025
Page Size: 471 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles

London 1902 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
252 Ellin, Stanley

Dreadful Summit

New York 1948 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
253 Fairlie, Gerard

They Found Each Other

London 1946 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
254 Fleming, Ian

You Only Live Twice

[London] [1964] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
255 Frank, Pat

Alas, Babylon

Philadelphia & New York [1959] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
256

Photograph of Earl Stanley Gardner

[c. 1950] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
257 Gilbert, Anthony

The Tragedy at Freyne

London 1927 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
258 Goldman, William

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

New York [1973] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
259 Gorey, Edward

The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

New York [1972] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
260 Gorey, Edward

The Unstrung Harp [with] The Jumblies [and] The Water Flowers

1953-1982 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
261 Grafton, Sue

A - D, F and V of Grafton's Alphabet Series

New York 1982-2011 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
262 Grafton, Sue

Sue Grafton's Alphabet series books, A-J, signed

London 1982-93 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
263 Gruber, Frank

The French Key [with] Simon Lash Private Detective

New York 1940, 1941 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
264 Hammett, Dashiell

Eleven Ellery Queen selections of Dashiell Hammett

c.1940s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
265 Hammett, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon

London 1930 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
266 Hart, Frances Noyes

The Bellamy Trial

Garden City, New York 1927 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
267 Harvey, Jack (Ian Rankin)

Witch Hunt

London 1993 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
268 Heinlein, Robert A.

Rocket Ship Galileo

New York [1947] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
269 McNelly, Willis E., compiler

The Dune Encyclopedia

New York [1984] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
270 Herbert, Frank

Dune

Philadelphia [1965] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,000.00
271 Hillerman, Tony

The Fly on the Wall

New York [1971] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
272 Holmes, H.H.

Rocket to the Morgue

New York 1942 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
273 Homes, Geoffrey

Build My Gallows High

New York 1946 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
274 Huggins, Roy

The Double Take [and] Lovely Lady, Pity Me

New York 1946-1949 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
275 Hughes, Dorothy B.

The Fallen Sparrow

New York [1942] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • 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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