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
27	Conrad, Joseph	The Secret Agent: A Drama in Three Acts	London	1923	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
28	Conrad, Joseph	The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale	London	[1907]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
29	Conrad, Joseph	Two editions of Suspense	Garden City, NY	1925	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
30	Conrad, Joseph	Typhoon And Other Stories	London	1903	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
31	Crane, Stephen	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	New York	1896	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
32	Dahl, Roald	Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen	New York	1948	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 150.00
33	Clark, Joseph Clayton	Two original watercolors of Dickens characters by "Kyd"	No place	[c.1920]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
34	[Dickens, Charles]	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank	London	1838	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
35	Dickens, Charles	The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress	London	1846	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
36	Dickens, Charles	American Notes for General Circulation	null	[1842-1850]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
37	Dickens, Charles	Bleak House	London	1853	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 343.75
38	Dickens, Charles	A Christmas Carol	London	[1915]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
39	Dickens, Charles	Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son	London	1848	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
40	Dickens, Charles	Hard Times. For These Times	London	1854	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
41	Dickens, Charles	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit	London	1844	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
42	Dickens, Charles	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	London	1839	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 593.75
43	Dickens, Charles	Little Dorrit	London	1857	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 343.75
44	Dickens, Charles	Master Humphrey's Clock	London	[1840-1841]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
45	Dickens, Charles	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	London	1870	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
46	Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz"	London	1838	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
47	Dickens, Charles	Our Mutual Friend	London	1864-65	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 687.50
48	Dickens, Charles	Our Mutual Friend [with] Oliver Twist [in] Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Complete Works Volume Five	St. Petersburg	1893	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
49	Dickens, Charles	The Personal History of David Copperfield	London	1850	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 406.25
50	Dickens, Charles	Pictures from Italy	London	[1846]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
51	Dickens, Charles	The Poor Traveler: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp	London	1858	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.