PBA Galleries: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction - At Pasadena, 830, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025
Page Size: 127 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Boston 1852 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
102 Stubbs, George

The Anatomy of the Horse: Including a Particular Description of the Bones, Cartilages, Muscles, Fascias, Ligaments, Nerves, Arteries, Veins, and Glands

London 1766-1815 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
103 Thompson, Hunter S.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

[San Francisco] [1973] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
104 Travers, Pamela Lyndon and Donald Bull

Mary Poppins: A Film Treatment

c.1960 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
105 Schatz, Albert & Selman A. Waksman

Effect of Streptomycin and Other Antibiotic Substances upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Organisms

[New York] 1944 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
106

Cabinet card photo portrait of Mark Twain inscribed and signed twice by Twain with an aphorism.

Vienna, Austria 1897 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,000.00
107 Zelenkova, Olga Konstantinovna

"Ia nikogho nie em!" [Iya Niknovo Nye Iem!"] [Trans.: "I do not eat anyone!" / 365 vegetarian menus and a guide to cooking vegetarian dishes: 1000 recipes (by seasons)]

St. Petersburg, Russia 1906 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
108 Wallace, Alfred Russel & Charles Darwin

On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfred R. Wallace... communicated by Charles Darwin

London 1860 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
109 Poe, Edgar Allan

Tales of Adventure Mystery and Imagination

London 1890 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
110 Walton, Izaak

The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert

London 1670 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
111 Watkins, Carleton E.

Bridal Veil Falls, 900 feet, Yosemite Cal.

San Francisco USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
112 Watkins, Carleton E.

The House over a Stump of a Big Tree

Negative: 1865-66; print date unknown USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
113 Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass [with] Two Rivulets

Camden, NJ 1876 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
114 [Whitman, Walt]

Leaves of Grass

Brooklyn, New York 1856 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
115

WWII Marine writes home re: Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima invasion

1945 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
116 Ashbery, John

Two volumes by John Ashbery

1956-1984 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
117 Ponge, Francis

Braque Lithographie

[Monte Carlo] [1963] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
118 Carter, Sebastian

Rampant Lions Press: A Narrative Catalogue

Cambridge 2013 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
119 Cross, Thomas

Autobiography of a Stage-Coachman

London 1861 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
120 cummings, e.e.

Nudes by Fire

No date. USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 937.50
121 Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend

London 1865 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 593.75
122

The Litany

Great Britain? c. 1860s or earlier USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
123 Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

Pilote de Guerre [Flight to Arras]

New York 1942 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
124 Shepherd, Henry E.

Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio

Baltimore 1917 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
125 Smith, J. Thorne

Three Thorne Smith First Editions

New York 1918-1930 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold