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Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
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PBA Galleries: Fine Literature: with Mystery & Sci-fi - Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Literature: with Mystery & Sci-fi - Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture | Total Sales (USD) | 241,937.50 |
| Auction Date | October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 219,900.00 |
| Sale Number | #848 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 345,500.00 |
| Total Lots | 533 | ||
| Sold Lots | 403 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 291,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 75.61% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 455,900.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 130 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 53.07% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 493 | Kerouac, Jack | Self Portrait - original drawing |
[1956] | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 34,375.00 |
| 488 | Kerouac, Jack | Excerpts from Visions of Cody |
[1960] | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 492 | Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
1957 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 2 | Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
[1959] | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 311 | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Tarzan of the Apes |
1914 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
| 94 | Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India |
1924 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
| 398 | Douglas, Emory | Bobby Hutton Murdered by Oakland Pigs |
1968 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
| 254 | Steinbeck, John | To A God Unknown |
[1933] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 323 | Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game |
[1985] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 116 | Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
1952 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 117 | Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises |
1926 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 137 | Kipling, Rudyard | If |
[1910] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 175 | Maclean, Norman | A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
1976 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 267 | Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
1920 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 345 | Fleming, Ian | Live and Let Die |
1954 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 396 | Rosenthal, Irving & Paul Carroll, editors | Big Table, Nos. 1-5, complete [with] three issues of the Chicago Review |
1958-60 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 45 | [Cooper, James Fenimore] | The Deerslayer: or, the First War-Path. A Tale |
1841 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 76 | Eliot, George | Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life |
1871-72 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 491 | Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
1957 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 12 | Baldwin, James | Giovanni's Room |
1956 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 33 | Cather, Willa Sibert | O Pioneers! |
1913 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 245 | Stein, Gertrude | Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia |
[1912] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 281 | Asimov, Isaac | Foundation |
1951 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 359 | Heinlein, Robert A. | Double Star |
1956 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 256 | Stevenson, Robert Louis | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
1886 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |