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Berkeley, CA, United States
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Literature, Counterculture, Rare Books
A significant gathering of nearly 500 lots of fine and rare books, manuscripts, and related material. Featured are large author collections of Jules Verne, Somerset Maugham, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., plus Charles Bukowski, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Frank Herbert, Henry Miller, Ayn Rand, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and many others. Books, ephemera, and writings of the counterculture, from the Beats to the Flower Children, abound, with Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs, and more. Finally there are rare and valuable books from many centuries, with landmarks of science and history, alchemy, the classics, early printing, finely bound books, fine printing, and an important collection of lexicography, with many scarce, early dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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