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
177	Vollmann, William T.	Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means	San Francisco	2003	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 937.50
178	Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death	[New York]	[1969]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 187.50
179	Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death	Franklin Center, PA	1978	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
180	Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death	Norwalk, CT	[1998]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 468.75
181	Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.	Timequake	New York	[1997]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00
182	Walcott, Derek	In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960	London	[1962]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 281.25
183	Walker, Alice	The Third Life of Grange Copeland	New York	[1970]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 150.00
184	Wallace, David Foster	Consider the Lobster and Other Essays	New York, Boston	[2005]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 500.00
185	Wallace, David Foster	Consider the Lobster and Other Essays	New York, Boston	[2005]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,500.00
186	Wallace, David Foster	Girl With Curious Hair	New York	[1989]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 468.75
187	Wallace, David Foster	Infinite Jest	Boston	[1996]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,375.00
188	Wallace, David Foster	Oblivion Stories	New York, Boston	[2004]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 531.25
189	Wallace, David Foster	Oblivion Stories [with] Advance Proofs	New York, Boston	[2004-2005]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 687.50
190	Wallace, David Foster	Three volumes by David Foster Wallace	New York and Elsewhere	1987-2009	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 437.50
191	Ward, Lynd	Vertigo, a Novel in Woodcuts	New York	1937	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
192	Welty, Eudora	A Curtain of Green	Garden City, New York	1941	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
193	West, Nathanael	Miss Lonelyhearts	New York	[1933]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 281.25
194	White, E. B.	Charlotte's Web	New York	[c.1960s]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
195	Whitehead, Colson	Three novels by Colson Whitehead	New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland	1999-2016	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
196	Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass	Philadelphia	1891-1892	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 343.75
197	Whitman, Walt	Specimen Days & Collect	Philadelphia	1882-83	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 343.75
198	Williams, John	Nothing But The Night	Denver	1948	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,125.00
199	Wister, Owen	The Virginian	New York	1902	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
200	Wordsworth, William	Poems in Two Volumes	London	1807;1897	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
201	Zafon, Carlos Ruiz	The Shadow of the Wind	New York	2004	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50

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.