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Auction Name
Fine Literature with Beats & the Counterculture
Auction Date
02/19/2026 - 02/19/2026
Sale Number
#857
Total Lots
501
Sold Lots
392.0
Lots Sold
78.24%
Unsold Lots
109
Total Sales (USD)
211,481.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
203,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
315,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
265,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
410,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
51.47%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Beier, Ulli, ed.

20 issues of Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature

1957-1966 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,875.00
107 Lewis, C.S.

C.S. Lewis handwritten letter, 1961

1961 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,250.00
458 Dalyell, John Graham

The Darker Superstitions of Scotland: Illustrated From History and Practice

1834 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,750.00
121 Milne, A.A.

When We Were Very Young

[1924] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
10 Cameron, James

Titanic: A Screenplay

1996 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,750.00
57 Dumas, Alexandre

Celebrated Crimes

1895 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
431 Bukowski, Charles

At Terror Street and Agony Way

1968 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,437.50
317 Etienne (pseud. of Dom Orejudos, aka Stephen)

Bob's Service Station [with] The Rawhide Male, No. 4

[c. 1970s] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
437 Bukowski, Charles

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,125.00
449 Bukowski, Charles

Post Office

1971 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,375.00
445 Bukowski, Charles

Love is a Dog from Hell, Poems 1974-1977

1977 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,375.00
138 Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts

Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

1941 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,375.00
388 Steward, Samuel (aka Phil Sparrow or Phil Andros)

Sailor, watercolor

1953 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
125 O'Hara, John

Appointment in Samarra

[1934] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,375.00
46 Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz"

1838 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,250.00
366 Bruce of Los Angeles

12 photographs of a model

[c. 1960s] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,000.00
89 Hemingway, Ernest

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,000.00
168 Twain, Mark

Mark Twain's Autobiography

1924 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
316 null

Set of Erotic French translucent playing cards

c.1860s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
334 null

104 issues of ONE Magazine

1954-1966 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00

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