Charles Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture at PBA Galleries

The Fine Literature, Mysteries & Sci-fi, Bukowski, Beats and The Counterculture auction at PBA Galleries on July 17 features a section dedicated to the works of Charles Bukowski, including original art, limited editions, manuscripts and letters.

Bukowskiana going under the hammer includes signed editions, letters and manuscripts, ephemera, and original art by Bukowski as well as a rare issue of Crucifix in a Deathhand (estimate: $6,000 - $8,000). This edition, limited to 26 lettered copies, is signed and includes original tipped-in art by Bukowski as well as a signed typescript letter with an original poem to his cat.

Also featured is a rare complete run of the influential literary magazine Evergreen Review which regularly presented new work by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder. With numerous issues signed by contributors, the full run spans the mid-1950s through the mid-1980s (estimate: $1,000 - $1,500).

Other highlights include:

• a presentation copy of American Big Game Fishing by Eugene V Connett and illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt (estimate: $10,000 - $15,000) inscribed by Ernest Hemingway "To Michael and Helen Lerner who are good sportsmen, good fishermen, good friends, with much affection Ernest Hemingway."
• a rare signed first U.K. edition of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (estimate: $3,000 - $5,000) in a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case
• a limited edition copy of Paul Verlaine's Fêtes Galantes (estimate: $2,500 - $3,500)  illustrated with pochoir plates by George Barbier