PBA Galleries: Steinbeck, Ricketts & The Western Flyer: The Ed Ricketts Jr. & Dennis Fry Collections (with additions), 831, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
Page Size: 63 items in 3 pages

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