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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
303 Brown, Jack and Charles Gregory

Le Cake-Walk: Danse au Nouveau Cirque. Les Negres. Cards no. 144/3 & 144/6

Paris 1902 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
304 Buffa

Entre hommes, photos couleurs de Buffa. 12 photos-couleurs

null [c. 1970] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
306 null

Nocturnal Dream Shows presents The Cockettes in Pearls over Shanghai flyer

San Francisco 1972 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
307 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 1

Montreal 1954 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
308 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 13

Montreal 1954 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
309 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 14

Montreal 1954 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
310 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 15/16: Correspondence Issue

Montreal 1955 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.00
311 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 18

Montreal 1956 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.00
312 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 21

Montreal 1957 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
313 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 22

Montreal 1957 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
314 Coutts, John (John Willie)

Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia No. 23

Montreal 1958 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
315 null

New Modern Bizarre of the Unusual, No. 20

Toronto [c. 1958] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
316 null

Set of Erotic French translucent playing cards

France c.1860s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
317 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

Bob's Service Station [with] The Rawhide Male, No. 4

null [c. 1970s] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
318 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

New York Motor Bike Club poster

New York City [c. 1969] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
319 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

Untitled sketch

null [c. 1960s] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
320 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

Untitled sketch

null [c. 1960s] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
321 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

Untitled sketch, signed

null [c. 1960s] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
322 Ford, Charles Henri and Parker Tyler

The Young and Evil

Paris [1960] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.25
323 Forster, E.M.

Howards End [with] A Passage to India

London 1910; 1924 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
324 null

Erotic French postcards

null [c. 1940s-1950s] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
325 null

141 novels from the "Adonis Classic" series

San Diego, CA 1975-1982 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,750.00
326 null

74 gay pulps published by Surrey House and Star Distributors

null c.1970s-1980s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
327 null

12 issues of Adonis: Male Physique Artistry

London 1955-1961 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
328 null

32 issues of The Male Figure

Los Angeles 1956-1966 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
  • 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.