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

Auction Reports

Auction Name Steinbeck, Ricketts & The Western Flyer: The Ed Ricketts Jr. & Dennis Fry Collections (with additions) Total Sales (USD) 221,000.00
Auction Date February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 196,200.00
Sale Number #831 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 308,300.00
Total Lots 63
Sold Lots 57 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 283,200.00
% of Lots Sold 90.48% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 438,900.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 50.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33 Ricketts, Edward F., Pat Covici, Elizabeth Otis, et al.

Archive of correspondence on Sea of Cortez manuscript and book - letters between co-author, agent, and publisher

1941-1942 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 34,375.00
7 Ricketts, Edward F.

The Philosophy of "Breaking Through": A personal interpretation of some modern tendencies, approached from an inductive standpoint

1938-40 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
54 Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

[1939] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,000.00
49 Steinbeck, John

Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History

1929 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 13,750.00
53 Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

[1939] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,000.00
6 Ricketts, Edward F.

Non-Teleological Thinking - 3 variants

1939-1941 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
38 Ricketts, Edward F.

Verbatim transcription of notes of Gulf of California trip March April 1940

1940 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
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

1942-1944 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 7,500.00
55 Steinbeck, John

In Dubious Battle

[1936] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
8 Ricketts, Edward F.

A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry with some manuscript notes by Ricketts

1938 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,250.00
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
20

Ed Ricketts' University of Chicago Undergraduate Course Book

April, 1919 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,312.50
22 Ricketts, Edward F.

Detailed Outline of Book Plan - for intertidal guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,312.50
50 Steinbeck, John

East of Eden

1952 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,687.50
39 Steinbeck, John and Edward F. Ricketts

Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

1941 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,375.00
13 Ricketts, Edward F.

Contents of Pacific Biological Laboratories destroyed [by fire] Nov '36

1936 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
43

Three documents securing passage to Mexico for the Western Flyer

1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,062.50
17 Ricketts, Edward F.

Ricketts shares ownership of Lab with Steinbeck

1936-39 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,750.00
34 Ricketts, Edward F.

Letter to John Steinbeck celebrating the scientific significance of their Sea of Cortez expedition

Aug. 22, 1941 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,750.00
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

Late 1930's USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,437.50
31 Castillo Najera, Francisco

Mexican Ambassador writes to Steinbeck and Ricketts regarding Sea of Cortez voyage

15246 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,437.50
32 Ricketts, Edward F. et al.

Ricketts' correspondence conducting research on species collected during Sea of Cortez voyage

1940-1942 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,812.50
51 Steinbeck, John

East of Eden

1952 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,500.00
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

[1948] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,375.00