PBA Galleries: Fine Literature with Beats & the Counterculture, 857, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2026 - February 19, 2026

Page Size: 501 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Beier, Ulli, ed.	20 issues of Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature	Ibadan, Nigeria	1957-1966	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 11,875.00
2	Cullen, Countee, editor	Caroling Dusk. An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets	New York & London	1927	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 468.75
3	Anderson, Sherwood	Dark Laughter	New York	1925	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00
4	Auster, Paul	Collected Poems [with] Here and Now	London	[2004; 2013]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 137.50
5	Ballantyne, Robert Michael	The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean	London	1858	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 937.50
6	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, the First Refiner of Italian Prose: Containing a Hundred Curious Novels, by Seven Honorable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Framed in Ten Days	London	1684	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
8	Bowles, Paul	The Sheltering Sky	London	1949	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
9	Brunton, Mary	Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces.	Edinburgh	1819	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
10	Cameron, James	Titanic: A Screenplay	No place	1996	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 3,750.00
11	Camus, Albert	The Plague	New York	1948	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
12	Capote, Truman	In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences	New York	[1965]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 175.00
13	Capote, Truman	A Tree of Night and Other Stories	New York	[1949]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 137.50
14	Cather, Willa Sibert	My Antonia	Boston and New York	1918	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 531.25
15	Cather, Willa Sibert	O Pioneers!	Boston & New York	1913	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
16	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, Excluding Personal and Party Politics, and the Events of the Day.	Penrith	1809	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
17	Conrad, Joseph & Ford M. Hueffer	The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story	London; New York	1901	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
18	Conrad, Joseph	Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River	London	1895	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
19	Conrad, Joseph	Chance: A Tale in Two Parts	London	1914	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
20	Conrad, Joseph	The End of the Tether [in] Blackwood's Magazine	Edinburgh & London	1902	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 562.50
21	Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim. A Tale.	Edinburgh & London	1900	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 531.25
22	Conrad, Joseph	The Mirror of the Sea	London	[1906]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
23	Conrad, Joseph	Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard	London	1904	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 406.25
24	Conrad, Joseph	Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard	New York	1904	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
25	Conrad, Joseph	The Point of Honor: A Military Tale	New York	1908	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
26	Conrad, Joseph	The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows	London	1920	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.