PBA Galleries: Fine Literature
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Fine Literature | Total Sales (USD) | 264,587.50 |
Auction Date | May 19, 2022 - May 19, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 223,900.00 |
Sale Number | #762 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 350,200.00 |
Total Lots | 487 | ||
Sold Lots | 373 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 283,100.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 76.59% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 441,800.00 |
Unsold Lots | 114 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 59.89% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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431 | Thirty-seven issues of Kaliflower |
1971-1972 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 16,250.00 | |
207 | Montgomery, L. M. | Anne of Green Gables |
1908 [but 1909] | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
252 | Steinbeck, Elaine | East of Eden with three-page autograph letter signed by Elaine Steinbeck attesting this to be the first copy from the publisher |
1952 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
168 | King, Stephen | Dark Tower: The Gunslinger |
[1982] | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
276 | Thoreau, Henry David | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods |
1854 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
82 | Eliot, T.S. | Poems 1909-1925 |
1925 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
325 | Wordsworth, William | Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems |
1800 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
277 | Thoreau, Henry David | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
1849 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,625.00 |
161 | Joyce, James | Ulysses |
1935 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,312.50 |
393 | Large collection of counterculture/social movement ephemera |
Various dates | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 5,312.50 | |
33 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Tarzan of the Apes |
1914 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,687.50 |
301 | Whitman, Walt | Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855 ... 1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.) ... Portraits from Life ... Autograph |
[1888 or 1889] | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 4,375.00 |
98 | Frost, Robert | New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes |
1923 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
90 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
1925 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
99 | Frost, Robert | North of Boston |
[1914] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
240 | Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
1951 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
208 | Montgomery, L. M. | Anne of the Island |
1915 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
357 | Dorbin, Sanford | A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski - with an original watercolor painting by Bukowski |
1969 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
413 | Ginsberg, Allen | Howl and Other Poems - inscribed with holographic notes |
[1973] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
450 | Sanders, Ed and Mike Aldritch, editors | The Marijuana Review Vol. 1, Nos. 1-9 |
1968-73 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
469 | Patchen, Kenneth | Original oil painting by Kenneth Patchen |
No date | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
129 | Heinlein, Robert A. | Stranger in a Strange Land |
[1961] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
255 | Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
[1939] | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
356 | Bruce, Richard, editor | Minotaur |
1959 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
73 | Didion, Joan | Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
1968 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,125.00 |