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Lenny Bruce & the Post-War Counterculture

PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 13.06.2019

Lot number 1
Lenny Bruce's address books

22x16 cm (8¾x6½") or smaller, flexible covers. The entries include business contacts, other...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$2,700
Lot number 2
Vintage audio tapes of Lenny Bruce performances

Reel-to-reel tapes in original boxes, with typed labels. 8 are 5" in diameter, 4 are 7" in diameter...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$3,000
Lot number 3
Lenny Bruce's bar tabs

Each approx. 20x10.5 cm (8x4¼"). Lenny drank well and tipped generously...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 4
Lenny Bruce's bar tabs

Each 18x10.7 cm (7x4¼"). Lenny seems to have been a generous tipper...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$228
Lot number 5
Lenny Bruce's bar tabs

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PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$240
Lot number 6
Lenny Bruce writes to Melvin Belli

One page, retained typed carbon, unsigned, on Bruce's South Doheny Drive letterhead. Bruce begins...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Lot number 7
Note from Lenny Bruce to lawyer Melvin Belli

Unsigned file copy, with Bruce’s original handwritten draft on a brown paper bag, and the original...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,200
Lot number 8
Melvin Belli & Lenny Bruce's 1962 L.A. trial

Typed correspondence with some holographic notes by Lenny Bruce. Comprises: a) Typed carbon from...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 9
Lenny Bruce plans gig at Berkeley Community Theater

Autograph letter in red ink, an unsigned draft, possibly incomplete as the letter ends abruptly...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 10
Lenny Bruce's Kennedy routine during election campaign

5 leaves, on rectos only, with numerous pencil holograph corrections and annotations by Bruce...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 11
Carbon typescript for Lenny Bruce screenplay

[4], 93 leaves, carbon typescript on rectos only. Plus 13-leaf typed & handwritten budget for the...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 12
Transcripts for Lenny Bruce breakout performances, 1958

59 pages on leaves typed on rectos only, comprising 17 pages for June 13, 1958 routine; 21 pages for...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 13
Honey Bruce's tell-all memoir of her marriage to Lenny Bruce

309 pp. Quarter cloth, in dust jacket. Third Printing. Honey Bruce's tell-all memoir of her marriage...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Lot number 14
Lenny Bruce's business records

Housed in a banker's box, with not much room left over. Of the 60 or so with Bruce’s holographic...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$3,000
Lot number 15
Check signed by Lenny Bruce as Leonard A. Schneider

Printed check filled out in ink, for $1,000, payable to Lenny Bruce, in Bruce’s hand and signed by...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$390
Lot number 16
Lenny Bruce check returned for insufficient funds

Printed check filled out in ink, for $20, made out to Cash. Lenny Bruce seems to be facing financial...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$720
Lot number 17
Lenny Bruce sells records at S.F.'s City Lights

Typed letter serving as a contractual agreement, signed by McBride, and also signed by Bruce in...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$420
Lot number 18
Lenny Bruce's breakout at Chicago's Cloisters night club

Printed contract filled out in pencil. 11x8½". Printed form contract completed in pencil, including...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$480
Lot number 19
Copies of Lenny Bruce letters with rare content

12 pp. total. 3-page draft letter from Bruce to an unknown recipient explaining why Bruce voted for...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 20
Love letter to Lenny Bruce

Autograph letter, signed Lynn, 2 pp., on rectos of 2 sheets of writing paper. Handwritten love note...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 21
Letter to Lenny Bruce from a fan

Autograph letter, in ink, signed with initials. A one-page holographic letter and mock basketball...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 22
Significant performances by Lenny Bruce

Letters, invoices, etc., relating to significant performances by Bruce. Includes: a) 440 Club [San...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 23
Birthday poem to Lenny Bruce

One page, in ink, signed Sheila. “What does he look like this man on the hill / with his books of...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 24
Letter to Lenny Bruce c.1961

Typed letter, 2 pages on 2 leaves, stapled. Provocative letter referring at various passages to...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 25
Lenny Bruce writes about error in trial, 1964

Two pages, on single sheet folded in half, being the back of a photocopy of a court document from...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$1,320
Lot number 26
Lenny Bruce tries to get out of record contract

Autograph letter, signed by Lenny Bruce. Two pages, on both sides of single sheet. The letter...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$570
Lot number 27
Lenny Bruce buys a drum set

Pink NCR purchase receipt, signed by Bruce in blue ink at the bottom. 28x21.5 cm (11x8½"). Purchase...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 28
Eulogy service for Lenny Bruce

One page. On Spector Productions letterhead, signed by Phil Spector in the plate. The Eulogy Service...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Lot number 29
Agreement for Lenny Bruce concerts in 1964

Typed 1 page agreement for three concerts in May 1964 in Boston, Philadelphia and Detroit. Signed by...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 30
Judy Garland attends Lenny Bruce act in Chicago

Autograph letter, one page, in ink, on The Croyden hotel letterhead. Bruce writes that he “Will be...

PBA Galleries, 13 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$420
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