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PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Beats & The Counterculture
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| Auction Name | Fine Literature - Beats & The Counterculture | Total Sales (USD) | 192,093.75 |
| Auction Date | July 17, 2025 - July 17, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 191,100.00 |
| Sale Number | #842 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 297,100.00 |
| Total Lots | 536 | ||
| Sold Lots | 385 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 285,700.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 71.83% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 443,800.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 151 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 43.28% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 426 | Kaufman, Bob, et al, editors | Beatitude - twenty-seven issues, 1959-1987 |
1959-1987 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,625.00 |
| 474 | Troy, Sandy | One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads |
1991 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 159 | McCarthy, Cormac | The Road |
[2006] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 211 | Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
[1939] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
| 369 | Bukowski, Charles | At Terror Street and Agony Way |
1968 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
| 128 | Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
1937 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 135 | London, Jack | The Cruise of the Dazzler |
1902 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 458 | Rosset, Barney, editor | Evergreen Review - complete run |
1957-1984 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 512 | Norse, Harold | Facial Landscape 3 / Atomic Man - original "cosmograph" painting by Harold Norse |
1960 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 256 | Bradley, Marion Zimmer | The Darkover Series |
1977-1979 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 491 | Kerouac, Jack | Excerpts from Visions of Cody |
[1960] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 411 | Bukowski, Charles | War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 |
1984 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 |
| 395 | Bukowski, Charles | The Lost Generation - manuscript poem [with] Portfolio III |
Various dates | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 78 | Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India |
1924 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 136 | London, Jack | The Cruise of the Snark |
1911 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 156 | McCarthy, Cormac | No Country for Old Men |
2005 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 388 | Bukowski, Charles | Hollywood |
1989 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 501 | Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
[1962] | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 311 | Woolrich, Cornell | Black Alibi |
1941 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 154 | McCarthy, Cormac | Cities of the Plain |
1998 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 229 | Twain, Mark | The Writings of Mark Twain |
1929 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 231 | Verlaine, Paul | Fetes Galantes |
1928 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 217 | Steinbeck, John | To A God Unknown |
[1933] | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,562.50 |
| 157 | McCarthy, Cormac | The Passenger / Stella Maris |
2022 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 110 | DeCarava, Roy & Langston Hughes | The Sweet Flypaper of Life |
1955 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://pjupgrade-qadev.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
