Mar 29, 2022
William Taylor Jr. is a
cataloger with PBA Galleries, a San Francisco-based auction house
for rare books and ephemera; he specializes in fine literature,
counterculture and poetry. He's an avid reader, and a prolific
writer. His first book of fiction is included in the curriculum at
select universities across the United States. In 2013 he was the
recipient of an Acker Award, a tribute named after groundbreaking
writer Kathy Acker given to members of the avant-garde arts
communities in both New York and San Francisco who have made
outstanding contributions to their discipline.
We talk here about PBA Galleries, about
Bill's role as a cataloguer and auctioneer, about how to sell your
rare books using PBA's services; about what those services are;
about commissions, first editions of Huxley's Brave New
World in very good plus dust jackets (actually the item in
question was in NF/NF condition), printed catalogues, Bukowski, the
Beats, reasons to sell via an auction house versus eBay, and much
more