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
401 Burroughs, William S.

The Soft Machine

Paris [1961] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
402 Burroughs, William S.

The Ticket That Exploded

London [1968] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 531.25
403 Carroll, Jim

The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15

Bolinas, CA 1978 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
404 Cassady, Carolyn

Original sketch of Neal Cassady

[San Francisco?] 1952 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
405

Five Leonard Cohen promotional posters

Various places Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
406

Leonard Cohen Columbia Records promotional package

New York 2001 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
407

Original letters from Marianne Ihlen, Suzanne Elrod and Anjani Thomas

Various places Various dates USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
408

Three music & poetry LPs featuring Leonard Cohen

1957-2012 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
409 Cohen, Leonard

Beautiful Losers

[Melbourne] [1972] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
410 Cohen, Leonard

Beautiful Losers

London [1970] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
411 Cohen, Leonard

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

New York [1993] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
412 Cohen, Leonard

Three 45 rpm vinyl singles

Various places Various dates USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
413 Cohen, Leonard

Three versions of Leonard Cohen's New Skin for the Old Ceremony

1974 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
414 Coutts, John

Bizarre No. 4, Vol. 1

[Montreal] 1946 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
415 Coutts, John

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 10

Montreal 1952 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
416 Coutts, John

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 6

Montreal 1951 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
417 Coutts, John

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 7

Montreal 1952 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
418 Coutts, John

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 9

Montreal [1952] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
419 Dahi, Soheyl

Two Sore Dove Press Portfolios: Art Beat [and] Poem & Art for Bob Kaufman

San Francisco 2024 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
420 Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

New York 1998 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
421 di Prima, Diane

Three Diane di Prima titles

2001-2007 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
422

Acid Test Flier - Blotter Edition

Pleasant Hill, OR 2019 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
423 Duncan, Robert

Ground Work: Before the War

[New York] [1984] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
424 Duncan, Robert

Heavenly City, Earthly City

[Berkeley] 1947 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
425 Rosset, Barney, editor

Evergreen Review - complete run

New York 1957-1984 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 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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