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January 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, January 31st, 5pm Pacific

• Lot #1: Hans Christian Andersen Autograph Quote Signed Regarding Retirement -- ''The first moment of retirement is the nosegay of the entire journey''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #2: Very Personal Samuel Clemens Autograph Letter Signed, to His Wife Regarding the Near-Death of Their Daughter Jean -- ''...It still makes me shudder...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #3: Beatrix Potter Signed First Edition, Second Issue of ''Roly-Poly Pudding''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #4: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...your absolutely unique style as an ironic writer and painter of characters...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #5: Superb Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Slavery -- ''...Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $21,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #6: First Edition, First Printing of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Scarcest Variant of the First Printing, in Publisher's Wrappers

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #7: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...all sorts of people are after me - police, creditors, ins. companies...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #8: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- Fantastic Letter With Dozens of Quotable Lines: ''...have been requested to do article on 'The Dry Rot of American Journalism' (my title)...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #9: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed From 1959 -- ''...a huge man in shorts and a cigar standing over the bed, jabbering about...bastards sleeping in his bed...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #10: Evelyn Waugh Signed First Edition of His Heralded Biography ''The Life of Ronald Knox''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #11: Ansel Adams Signed Poster of His Photograph, ''Madrone Bark, Santa Cruz Mountains, California''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #12: H.R. Giger Signed Limited Deluxe Edition of ''Biomechanics'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #13: Very Rare Edvard Munch Autograph Letter Signed Referencing His "Moonlight" Etching

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #14: Very Rare Edvard Munch Autograph Letter Signed From the Kornhaug Sanatorium in 1900 -- "…I am thinking of traveling to Dresden then, concerning an exhibit of my works…"

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #15: Pablo Picasso ''Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe'' (''Lunch on the Grass''), No. 517 -- Stunning Plaque Created at Madoura Pottery Studios Measures 24'' x 20'' in Classic Picasso Style -- Picasso's Artist...

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $75,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #16: Pablo Picasso ''Corrida aux Personnages'', Number 104 -- Colorful Ceramic Plate Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios in Very Small 50 Edition, Painted by Picasso in His Quintessential Style

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $42,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #17: Pablo Picasso ''Tete au Masque'', Number 362 -- Dramatic & Playful Ceramic Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $32,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #18: Pablo Picasso ''La Pique'', Number 103 -- Ceramic Plate Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios in Small 150 Edition, Painted by Picasso in His Quintessential Style

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #19: Pablo Picasso ''Figure de Proue'', Number 136 -- Vase Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #20: Pablo Picasso ''Paysage'', Number 205 -- Dramatic Ceramic Plate Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #21: Pablo Picasso ''Centaure et Visage'', Number 188 -- Pitcher Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios in a Small Edition of 125

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #22: Pablo Picasso ''Hibou'', Number 253 -- Ceramic Owl Pitcher Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $9,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #23: Pablo Picasso ''Pichet Yan'', Number 140 -- Pitcher Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $9,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #24: Pablo Picasso ''Yan Barbu'', Number 513 -- Pitcher Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #25: Pablo Picasso ''Femme Echevelee'', Number 511 -- Ceramic Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #26: Pablo Picasso ''Petit Visage Solaire'', Number 552 -- Ceramic Plaque Created at the Madoura Pottery Studios

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #27: Andy Warhol Twice-Signed Iconic Campbell's Soup Can

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #28: Berke Breathed Original Hand-Drawn Comic Strip for ''Bloom County'' -- Milo Scares Opus

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #29: Berke Breathed Original Hand-Drawn Comic Strip for ''Bloom County'' -- Opus Has a Near Death Experience

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #30: Berke Breathed Original Hand-Drawn Comic Strip for ''Bloom County'' -- Featuring Opus & Milo Bloom

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #31: Milton Caniff Charcoal Drawing of the Dragon Lady From ''Terry and the Pirates'' -- Measures 24'' x 30''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #32: ''Terry and the Pirates'' Original Comic Strip by Milton Caniff From 1943

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #33: Ward Kimball Signed Drawing of His Creation, the Reluctant Dragon

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #34: Fantastic Dr. Seuss Lot of 3 Letters Signed & Illustrations From His Pivotal Year of 1957 -- ''...THE CAT IN THE HAT will, shortly, be my best known animal...'' -- Also Several Drawings by Walt Kelly

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #35: Large Disney Cel From ''Sleeping Beauty'' -- Depicting Princess Aurora With Her Fairy Godmother Merryweather

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #36: Grammy Medal Awarded to Kathy Mattea

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #37: Scarce Huddie ''Lead Belly'' Ledbetter Autograph Letter Signed, Circa Early 1940s -- ''...am in a tuff spot right now but I'm trying all I can to get a $1000 dollars...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $9,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #38: Scarce Bon Scott Autograph Letter Signed From 1978 -- ''...Oh we finished our live album a few weeks ago in New York. I had to re-record about five concerts...'' -- With Epperson COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #39: Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #40: Louis Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- Signed Both as ''Louis Armstrong'' & With His Nickname ''Satchmo''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #41: Franz Liszt Autograph Letter Signed Mentioning His ''Lieder'' Compositions -- ''...since you are assuring me that my Lieder will contribute to your peace...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #42: Giacomo Puccini AMQS for ''La Boheme''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #43: 1956 Academy Award Nomination for the Film ''Giant''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #44: 1970 Academy Award Nomination for the Song ''Till Love Touches Your Life''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $700

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #45: Bette Davis Personally Owned Necklace

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #46: Bette Davis Personally Owned Earrings

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #47: James Dean Unpublished Photograph, Taken Shortly Before His Death

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #48: Farrah Fawcett Personally Owned Venetian Eye Mask -- With Elaborate Purple & Black Feathers

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #49: Farrah Fawcett Personally Owned Necklace

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #50: Carole Lombard Personally Owned & Monogrammed Bible

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #51: Original 1945 Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Andre de Dienes, With de Dienes Backstamp -- Measures 9.5'' x 11.25''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #52: Mickey Rooney's Golden Globe for Best Actor in ''Bill'' -- Directly From the Mickey Rooney Estate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #53: Mickey Rooney's Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for ''Bill'' -- The Only Emmy Won by Rooney -- Directly From the Mickey Rooney Estate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #54: Mickey Rooney's Lifetime Achievement Award From the California Organization of Police and Sheriffs -- Directly From the Mickey Rooney Estate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #55: Mickey Rooney ''Best of Broadway Award'' for ''Sugar Babies'' -- Rooney's Broadway Debut That Revitalized His Career -- Directly From the Mickey Rooney Estate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #56: Mickey Rooney ''Veterans Lifetime Achievement Award'' -- Directly From the Mickey Rooney Estate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #57: Frank Sinatra's Own Custom-Shirt With His Label

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #58: John Wayne Mug From ''Rooster Cogburn'' -- One of Wayne's Famous Mugs Gifted to the Cast and Crew on His Films

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #59: Marlon Brando Signed Agreement with 20th Century Fox From 1956

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #60: Sammy Davis, Jr. Twice-Signed Passport Issued in 1963 -- With Dozens of Stamps Documenting His Travels Throughout the 1960s

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,250

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #61: Marlene Dietrich Letter Signed, With Autograph Note, on Her Relationship with Erich Remarque, and ''that bitch [Paulette] Goddard'', Remarque's Widow

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #62: Stan Laurel Letter Signed -- ''...Hardy was'nt Mad - just disgusted with the whole affair, it was really a shocking experience...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #63: Stan Laurel Letter Signed -- ''...Did you see the Dick Van Dyke show on TV a couple of weeks ago, he did a L&H skit (enclosed news photo) it was very good indeed...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #64: Stan Laurel Letter Signed -- ''...The last film Hardy ever appeared in was titled 'UTOPIA' the one we made in France in 1950 - should have been title the 'Fiasco'...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #65: Marilyn Monroe Signed Rodeo Program, Obtained During the Filming of ''Bus Stop'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #66: ''Star Wars'' Cast-Signed Movie Poster -- Signed by Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Darth Vader, C-3PO and Chewbacca's Characters

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #67: Rudolph Valentino Signed Photo With His Real Name ''Rodolfo Guglielmi'' -- Shows Valentino as a Young Boy

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #68: Rudolph Valentino Autograph Letter Signed With His Real Name ''Rodolfo'' -- ''...I'm sending you my photograph with this letter, and I hope you'll send me one of you as soon as you get one taken...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #69: George H.W. Bush Autograph Letter Signed -- Addressed to Minnie Pearl, Who Had Just Performed for Him at the Grand Ole Opry

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #70: George W. Bush Signed Limited Edition of ''The Capitol of Texas'' -- Gorgeous, Leather-Bound Volume Also Signed by Five Other Texas Governors

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #71: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Copy of ''Crusade in Europe''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #72: Andrew Jackson Land Grant Signed as President

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #73: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #74: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #75: Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of John F. Kennedy -- Appeared as the Cover of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1960

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #76: First Edition, 27 Volume Set of the Warren Commission's Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- With Scarce ''Report'' Volume

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #77: AP Wire Teletype From 22 November 1963 Regarding the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- ''President Kennedy Is Dead''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #78: Robert F. Kennedy Sculpture by Robert Berks

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #79: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President -- Recommending Employment to a Discharged Soldier

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #80: First Edition of ''Words of Lincoln'' From 1895, With Excerpts of Abraham Lincoln's Speeches & Writings

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #81: Ronald and Nancy Reagan Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With JSA COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #82: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Book as President, on the Occasion of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement of America

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #83: Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President -- The Third Rarest Autograph as President

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #84: George Washington Letter Signed From 1785 -- In this Almost Humorous Letter, Washington Manages Renters on His Land, and Appeals to His Land Agent for Help

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #85: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Current Bid: W/D

• Lot #86: Important Oliver Cromwell Autograph Letter Signed From 1648 Regarding His Son's Matrimony -- ''...Mr. Maijor desired 400l. per annum of inheritance...wherein I desired to be advised by my wife...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #87: Nelson Mandela Signed Luxury First Edition of His Celebrated Autobiography ''Long Walk to Freedom'' -- Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #88: Anastasio Somoza Garcia Document Signed From 1937 as President of Nicaragua

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #89: Prince William and Princess Kate Wedding Cake Slice -- In Original Presentation Tin

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #90: Scarce Marie Curie Signed Document From Her ''Institut du Radium'' Laboratory -- Curie Signs Off on an Experiment in Her Lab

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #91: Lot of Two Charles Darwin Autograph Letters Signed With Evolution Related Content -- ''...I was particularly glad to hear you and your brother's statement about the 'gay' deceiver-pigeons...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #92: Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed -- Darwin Writes to His Financial Advisor Regarding an Investment

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #93: Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed From November 1851

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #94: Richard Feynman Autograph Manuscript Entitled ''Conversation with Presskill'' -- Comprising Three Pages of Notes on Theoretical Physics

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #95: Spectacular Buzz Aldrin Signed 20'' x 8'' Photo, Titled by Aldrin ''Magnificent Desolation'' -- With Novaspace COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #96: Buzz Aldrin Fantastic Signed 20'' x 16'' Photo of the First Lunar Landing

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #97: Buzz Aldrin Signed 10'' x 8'' ''First Lunar Landing'' Photo -- Aldrin Stands in Front of the U.S. Flag on the Moon

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #98: Apollo 15 Crew-Signed Astronaut Insurance Cover -- Signed ''Al Worden'', ''Dave Scott'' & ''Jim Irwin'' -- Cancelled 26 July 1971 -- 6.5'' x 3.75'' -- Near Fine -- With COA From Worden

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #99: U.S. Flag Flown to the Moon on the Apollo 17 Mission

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #100: Neil Armstrong Signed Certificate for ''Footsteps on the Moon''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Current Bid: None