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Auction Name
Fine Literature - Beats & The Counterculture
Auction Date
07/17/2025 - 07/17/2025
Sale Number
#842
Total Lots
536
Sold Lots
385
Lots Sold
71.83%
Unsold Lots
151
Total Sales (USD)
192,094.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
191,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
297,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
285,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
443,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
43.28%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
426 Kaufman, Bob, et al, editors

Beatitude - twenty-seven issues, 1959-1987

1959-1987 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,625.00
474 Troy, Sandy

One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,062.50
159 McCarthy, Cormac

The Road

[2006] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
211 Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

[1939] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,437.50
369 Bukowski, Charles

At Terror Street and Agony Way

1968 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,437.50
135 London, Jack

The Cruise of the Dazzler

1902 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,812.50
128 Kafka, Franz

The Metamorphosis

1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,812.50
458 Rosset, Barney, editor

Evergreen Review - complete run

1957-1984 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,500.00
512 Norse, Harold

Facial Landscape 3 / Atomic Man - original "cosmograph" painting by Harold Norse

1960 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
491 Kerouac, Jack

Excerpts from Visions of Cody

[1960] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
256 Bradley, Marion Zimmer

The Darkover Series

1977-1979 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
411 Bukowski, Charles

War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984

1984 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,250.00
395 Bukowski, Charles

The Lost Generation - manuscript poem [with] Portfolio III

Various dates USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
136 London, Jack

The Cruise of the Snark

1911 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,000.00
78 Forster, E.M.

A Passage to India

1924 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
156 McCarthy, Cormac

No Country for Old Men

2005 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
501 Kesey, Ken

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[1962] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,875.00
388 Bukowski, Charles

Hollywood

1989 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,875.00
311 Woolrich, Cornell

Black Alibi

1941 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,750.00
154 McCarthy, Cormac

Cities of the Plain

1998 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00

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