# Kurt Vonnegut - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:11:20.261Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2015-02-26
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-19
- Median realised price: $200
- Price range: $8 to $33,020

## Market Takeaway
Kurt Vonnegut has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $200. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 13 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 \($200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($125 to $325\) 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: 92.6% (25 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 13
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $30
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-02-19
- Days since latest sale: 68
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 10 lots
- RoGallery: 5 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 3 lots
- Aether Auctions: 1 lots
- Alexander Historical Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots
- Chaucer Auctions: 1 lots
- Clark's Auction Company: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Florida Estate Sales Inc.: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-03 | Kurt Vonnegut signed Employ the Physically Handicapped World Congress International Society for | Chaucer Auctions | £8
2. 2026-02-19 | Slaughterhouse Five signed by Kurt Vonnegut | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $325
3. 2025-11-22 | Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus, 1990, Signed Limited Edition Book | Clark's Auction Company | $90
4. 2025-10-23 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Author's Album Containing Retained Copies of Letters. January 1951\-June 1956. | Swann Auction Galleries | $33,020
5. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Hocus Pocus SIGNED | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $150 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-hocus-pocus-signed-181-c-dd5463f87b
6. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Galapagos SIGNED \#63/500 | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-galapagos-signed-63-500-40-c-1ca470184f
7. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Timequake SIGNED 1997 | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-timequake-signed-1997-16-c-0764360a96
8. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Dead\-Eye Dick SIGNED 1982 1st 1st | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-dead-eye-dick-signed-1982-1st-1st-15-c-67f4dc6aa4
9. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Slaughterhouse Five SIGNED LTD | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $325 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five-signed-ltd-14-c-cd748949de
10. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Look at the Birdie SIGNED LTD | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-look-at-the-birdie-signed-ltd-13-c-ce04a189d3
11. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- While Mortals Sleep SIGNED LTD | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $125 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-while-mortals-sleep-signed-ltd-11-c-b52464dbc0
12. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Sirens of Titan SIGNED | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $225 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-sirens-of-titan-signed-10-c-efb409d9bc
13. 2025-10-08 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Palm Sunday SIGNED 1981 1ST UK | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $125 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-palm-sunday-signed-1981-1st-uk-7-c-79b492994d
14. 2025-09-06 | KURT VONNEGUT SIGNED COPY MOTHER NIGHT FIRST ED | Florida Estate Sales Inc. | $320
15. 2025-04-02 | KURT VONNEGUT | Alexander Historical Auctions LLC | $240 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-1264-c-1454e0a85b
16. 2025-03-19 | Kurt Vonnegut \- Cat's Cradle 1963 1st | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kurt-vonnegut-cat-s-cradle-1963-1st-9-c-913430bb6c
17. 2025-01-28 | Kurt Vonnegut, The Franklin Library Leather Book, Jailbird | Lion and Unicorn | $30
18. 2023-10-23 | Kurt Vonnegut Signed & Inscribed 2/3 Artist Proof Lithograph Box 23" X 16" | Aether Auctions | $375
19. 2022-07-09 | Slap\-Stick: | Gateway Gallery Auction | $85
20. 2020-11-19 | KURT VONNEGUT PRINT "HOMAGE TO MARCEL DUCHAMP 'OBJET TROUVE'" Formatted as Vonnegut's Screen Actors Guild membership card. Titled lo | Eldred's | N/A
21. 2019-12-08 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Welcome to the Monkey House" | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $150
22. 2019-12-08 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Deadeye Dick", 1st Ed. Signed | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $150
23. 2019-12-08 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Slaughterhouse Five", Signed | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $150
24. 2018-07-14 | Kurt Vonnegut Sculpture, Wasp Waist | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $4,200

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