PBA Galleries: Steinbeck, Ricketts & The Western Flyer: The Ed Ricketts Jr. & Dennis Fry Collections (with additions), 831, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four typescript letters related to the publishing of the second edition of Between Pacific Tides |
1942-48 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 437.50 | ||
| 2 | Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides: An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico |
Stanford | [1948] | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 3 | Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides: An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico |
Stanford | [1948] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 4 | Ricketts, Edward F. and Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides - six variants |
Stanford | 1948-1978 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Manuscript note on non-teleological thinking on verso of letter to Atlantic Monthly |
No date | c.1930's | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 6 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Non-Teleological Thinking - 3 variants |
Pacific Grove | 1939-1941 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 7 | Ricketts, Edward F. | The Philosophy of "Breaking Through": A personal interpretation of some modern tendencies, approached from an inductive standpoint |
Pacific Grove and Mexico City | 1938-40 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 8 | Ricketts, Edward F. | A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry with some manuscript notes by Ricketts |
Pacific Grove | 1938 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 9 | Ricketts, Edward F. and John Steinbeck | Archive of typescripts and notes for the proposed book on the Japanese "Mandated Islands" and the letter correspondence between Steinbeck and Ricketts and the U.S. War Department |
[Pacific Grove, CA] | 1942-1944 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 10 | Steinbeck, John | Letter to Secretary of the Navy Hon. Frank Knox regarding Ricketts' Mandated Islands research |
Palisades, NY | 15466 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 11 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Six letters from Mexico City addressed to Ritchie and Tal Lovejoy, et al. |
Mexico City | 1940 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 12 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Thesis and Materials for a Script on Mexico which shall be motivated oppositely to John's "Forgotten Village" |
[1941] | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 13 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Contents of Pacific Biological Laboratories destroyed [by fire] Nov '36 |
Monterey | 1936 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 14 | Ricketts, Edward F. | E.F. Ricketts Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
Monterey | 1946 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 15 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Ed Ricketts' post-fire inventory of new books and records |
1937-39 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 | |
| 16 | Ricketts, Edward F. | File of invoices, business correspondence, bills of lading, and packing memos from Pacific Biological Laboratories |
Monterey | Late 1930's | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
| 17 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Ricketts shares ownership of Lab with Steinbeck |
Monterey | 1936-39 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 18 | Stackpole, Peter | [Ed Ricketts holding jar of specimens at Pacific Biological Laboratories] |
1945; later print | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 19 | Ricketts, Anna | Recollections |
Mill Valley, CA | 1984 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 20 | Ed Ricketts' University of Chicago Undergraduate Course Book |
Chicago | April, 1919 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 5,312.50 | |
| 21 | James Fitzgerald | [Portrait of Ed Ricketts] |
No date | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 22 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Detailed Outline of Book Plan - for intertidal guide to the San Francisco Bay Area |
Monterey | 1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,312.50 |
| 23 | Ricketts, Edward F. | EFR Letters |
Mill Valley, CA | 1995 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 24 | Ricketts, Edward F. | EFR Letters |
Mill Valley, CA | 1995 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 25 | Ricketts, Edward F. | The Outer Shores |
[Eureka, CA] | [1978] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |