# Charles Bukowski - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:53:42.988Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2004-05-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-17
- Median realised price: $300
- Price range: $40 to $6,600

## Market Takeaway
Charles Bukowski has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($152 to $550\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 88.9% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.1% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $170
- Previous 12 months median: $550
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-17
- Days since latest sale: 285
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 5 lots
- Sydney Rare Book Auctions: 5 lots
- RR Auction: 4 lots
- Finarte: 2 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Kabinett Auktionshaus & Antiquitäten GmbH: 1 lots
- Maynards Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- The Book Merchant Jenkins: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-17 | Signed by Charles Bukowski | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $170
2. 2025-04-17 | Signed by Charles Bukowski | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $550 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-signed-by-charles-bukowski-391-c-8e44ac68cf
3. 2024-06-26 | Charles Bukowski | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | N/A
4. 2024-01-04 | Charles Bukowski | The Book Merchant Jenkins | A$60
5. 2023-10-06 | Charles Bukowski | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$40
6. 2023-07-14 | Charles Bukowski Signed | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$300
7. 2023-07-14 | Charles Bukowski | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-charles-bukowski-634-c-3914982aac
8. 2023-07-14 | Charles Bukowski | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | N/A
9. 2023-07-13 | 18 smaller broadsides by Charles Bukowski | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $200
10. 2022-10-21 | Charles Bukowski \- Living on Luck, 1995 | Finarte | €300
11. 2022-05-07 | Charles Bukowski \- Alone In A Time Of Armies, 1985 | Finarte | €450
12. 2021-03-18 | Charles Bukowski: I think I need a drink. | Kabinett Auktionshaus & Antiquitäten GmbH | N/A
13. 2020-10-25 | Charles Bukowski "Crucifix in a Deathhand" Signed | Auctions at Showplace | $350
14. 2017-12-07 | \[American literature\] Charles Bukowski | Zwiggelaar Auctions | €110
15. 2017-04-22 | Charles Bukowski & Burroughs | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$60
16. 2014-09-11 | Ham on Rye | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $6,600
17. 2014-09-11 | 86'd | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $204
18. 2014-08-13 | Charles Bukowski | RR Auction | N/A
19. 2014-05-02 | Charles Bukowski \(1920\-1994\), Manuscript, USA, 1976 | Auctionata Paddle8 AG | €800
20. 2012-08-15 | Charles Bukowski | RR Auction | $770
21. 2010-07-14 | Autograph: Charles Bukowski | RR Auction | $336
22. 2010-03-10 | \[ Autographs \] Charles Bukowski | RR Auction | $1,242
23. 2004-05-23 | Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell, 1977, signed first edition. | Bonhams | $152

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