On Thursday, June 28th, PBA Galleries will hold an Art & Illustration auction which will include Asian and Asian-American material. Over 360 lots will be up for bidding, featuring a remarkable gathering of works on the art, culture and literature of East Asia, primarily Japan and China, many with original woodblock illustrations, and including screen … Art & Illustration with Asian Material to Delight on June 28th
On Thursday, July 12th, PBA Galleries will host an auction of Fine Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography with over 700 lots of rare and interesting material, ranging from colonial America and the Revolution through to heady days of the Gold Rush, the tragedy of the Civil War, and the settling … Colonial and Revolutionary Americana and More July 12th
On Thursday, July 26th, PBA Galleries will host a sale of over 550 lots of fine literature, mostly from the 20th century, with a few from earlier times, and a handful from our current millennium. Included are first editions of key works by the major authors of our time, most in the original dust jackets, … Call of the Wild Modern Literature on July 26th
PBA Galleries seized leadership of the Fine Writing Instruments auction market in its successful debut Fine Pens sale on July 19th in San Francisco. The 361 lot auction attracted participants from all over the globe, and over 90% of the lots sold went above their low estimates. Montblanc Artisan Edition pens performed particularly well in … Impressive Results at Debut Pen Sale
Cecil Minton Wahle considered books an escape to new places. Born in San Francisco in 1927, she loved everything about books including their design and their materials. After traveling the world with her husband, she returned to northern California and purchased the Old Monterey Book Company in Monterey, California. A respected bookseller she joined the Antiquarian … Cecil Minton Wahle (1927 – 2014)
Did you know that PBA Galleries can deliver a weekly email of items matching your specified interests? The matching results are emailed every Sunday evening. Simply add individual “My Alerts” on our website by entering your preferred keyword searches and alerts will begin automatically. To setup this feature, first log in to the website. Next, … My Alerts Tutorial
Outside of my family, the antiquarian book world has been my life since the mid 1960s. Although I started my working career as a newspaperman and later spent some time as sales manager of a metal products company, the combination of serendipity and luck that landed me in the book biz was the major turning … Edwin V. Glaser Bookseller
(Berkeley, California, June 10th, 2020) – PBA Galleries announced world record-breaking results from their June 4th auction of Comic Books: Pre-Code Horror, Silver Age Marvel, and Undergrounds. The sale was PBA’s inaugural comic book auction under the direction of Ivan Briggs, whose catalogue showcased “the best overlooked gems in the world of comics, all the … PBA Comic Auction Breaks World Records
On January 12th, 2017, PBA Galleries will host the sale of Rare Medicine & Science – Inventory of Edwin V. Glaser Rare Books. This sale is comprised of over 500 lots of rare and important works of medicine and science from the 16th through 20th centuries covering scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, medical investigations and innovations … PBA Galleries Offering Rare Medicine & Science Books
Today, almost exactly 100 years since he perished aboard the Lusitania, Elbert Hubbard is primarily known as the founder of Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts artisan community in East Aurora, New York. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century he was also well known as a writer and philosopher. Hubbard started his career working … “I Am an Anarchist. All good men are Anarchists.”