PBA Galleries: Literature and Fine Press Books
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Literature and Fine Press Books | Total Sales (USD) | 185,604.00 |
Auction Date | January 23, 2020 - January 23, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 157,710.00 |
Sale Number | #693 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 249,500.00 |
Total Lots | 412 | ||
Sold Lots | 350 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 208,010.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 84.95% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 328,400.00 |
Unsold Lots | 62 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 56.52% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
237 | Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale |
1979 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,200.00 |
179 | Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
1951 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 6,600.00 |
283 | Shakespeare, William | The Play of Pericles - with portfolio of engraving proofs |
2011 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,100.00 |
325 | Schanilec, Gaylord | Lac des Pleurs. Report from Lake Pepin |
2015 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
271 | Ainslie, Patricia & Paul Ritscher | Endgrain: Contemporary Wood Engraving in North America |
1994 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
319 | Hunter, Dard | The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800 - inscribed, with original letter |
[1925] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
256 | Toomer, Jean | Cane |
2000 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
87 | Fiske, John | Complete Works of John Fiske |
1902 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
163 | Miller, Henry | Tropic of Capricorn |
[1939] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
210 | Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
2009 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
265 | Yeats, William Butler | Poems of W.B. Yeats |
[1990] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
29 | Bukowski, Charles | Ham on Rye |
1982 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
32 | Bukowski, Charles | Hot Water Music |
1983 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
50 | Bukowski, Charles | War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 |
1984 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
226 | Heaney, Seamus | Squarings: A sequence of forty-eight poems...with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt |
2003 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
251 | Sterne, Laurence | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman |
1988 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
272 | Ainslie, Patricia & Paul Ritscher | Endgrain: Contemporary Wood Engraving in North America |
1994 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
321 | Parmenides | The Fragments of Parmenides |
2003 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
326 | Verhoeven, Benjamin | Sylvae |
[2008] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
16 | Bukowski, Charles & Al Purdy | The Bukowski / Purdy Letters: 1964-1974, A Decade of Dialogue |
[1983] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
25 | Bukowski, Charles | Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts - with original typescript poem |
1965 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
278 | Keats, John | Fancy: 8 Odes by John Keats |
2015 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
64 | Capote, Truman | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
[1958] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
280 | Lazarov, Peter | Peter Lazarov: A Selection of Engravings |
2003 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
351 | Thoreau, Henry David | The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau |
[1986] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,680.00 |