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April 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, April 25th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 4/25/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ''Visible Speech''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,500

• Lot #2: Charles Darwin Letter Signed From 1864

  

  Min Bid: $4,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Robert Darwin Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Charles Darwin's Financial Obligations

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Albert Einstein Letter Signed During WWII -- ''The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive...our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test''

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #5: Albert Einstein Signature

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: DNA Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson Signed First Day Cover Honoring Health Research

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Apollo 15 Crew-Signed NASA Insurance Cover -- From Al Worden's ''Personal Collection'', as Written by Him, and Also With His Signed COA

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: $438

• Lot #8: U.S. Flag Flown to the Moon and Carried to the Lunar Surface During the Apollo 17 Mission

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $4,028

• Lot #9: Gene Cernan Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo Exploring the Lunar Surface During Apollo 17 -- ''...Leaving Challenger to Explore the Moon...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Apollo 8 Commemorative Stamp Set Issued to Jack Swigert -- In Swigert's Custom Folder & With Other Memorabilia Owned by Swigert Including His Signed Note to His Mom

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Wilbur Wright Postcard Signed From December 1908 During Their Very Successful Exhibition Flights in Europe -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: The Beatles Signed Items: Diary Page Signed by John Lennon & George Harrison, and Record Sleeve Signed by Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr -- With Roger Epperson COAs for All Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Jon Bon Jovi Stage Played & Signed Acoustic-Electric Guitar

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: $18,750

• Lot #14: The Drifters Promotional Poster From the 1960s

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Bob Dylan Signed Album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Bob Dylan Signed Album ''Highway 61 Revisited'' -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: Bob Dylan Signed Album ''Bringing It All Back Home'' -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Eagles Signed ''Hotel California'' Test Pressing LP From 1976 -- With Roger Epperson COA for All 5 Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: $2,813

• Lot #19: Aretha Franklin Concert Poster at Detroit's Ford Auditorium in 1964 -- Misspelled ''Areatha''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Grammy Nomination Medal & Certificate -- Awarded for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2000 to Limp Bizkit

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #21: George Michael Signed 1981 Membership Card to the London Disco Bogart's, Then Frequented by the Young Superstar

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Selena Signed Acoustic Guitar From 1994 -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #23: Selena Signed Electric Guitar From 1994 -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #24: The Supremes Photo Signed by all 3, Including Florence Ballard -- With Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip -- Featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy From 1963 During the Golden Age of ''Peanuts''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: $18,750

• Lot #26: Early Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip From 1956 Showing Snoopy Walking on All Four Legs

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: $28,185

• Lot #27: ''White Heron'' Print by Artist John James Audubon -- ''Birds of America'' Collection -- Large Sheet Measures 39.5'' x 26.5''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I will not deprive myself of the pleasure of coming to see your Cezanne exhibition...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #29: Sir Joshua Reynolds Autograph Letter Signed -- Reynolds Corresponds With a Patron (Likely Sir William Hamilton) in 1772, Asking for Payment of 32 Guineas for Two Paintings

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Andy Warhol Signed Iconic Campbell's Soup Label

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Ludwig Bemelmans' ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'' -- First Edition With Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Seckatary Hawkins Acclaimed Children's Book, ''Stormie The Dog Stealer'' -- 1925 First Edition -- One of the Rarest Titles of the Hawkins Series

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: H.A. Rey Signed Drawing of Curious George, Drawn Inside ''Curious George Takes a Job''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Curious George First Edition, Signed by H.A. Rey With His Original Ink Drawing of Curious George -- ''Curious George Rides a Bike'' From 1952

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' -- First American Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: U.K. Deluxe Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' -- First American Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: U.K. Deluxe Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' -- First American Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Gertrude Stein's ''Lucy Church Amiably'' First Edition -- Scarce Book by the Author Who Coined the Term ''Lost Generation''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed ''The Jew'' -- ''...am working fitfully on Great PR novel - The Rum Diary...Playboy bounced B.S. & it is now circulating for the booby prize...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: $1,800

• Lot #42: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Shortly After John F. Kennedy Was Elected -- Thompson Writes of JFK's Win, ''we got the touchdown - where do we go from here?''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Fantastic Early Autograph Letter Signed From 17 Year Old Hunter S. Thompson About His Burgeoning Identity, the Nature of Friendship and His Trouble with the FBI

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Autograph Note -- ''...bought a huge Doberman name of Agar for $100...Also a pistol for $70 & now I can't pay the rent...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter From Big Sur -- ''...First big money will go for acres. Land is wealth...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed From 1961 -- Thompson Writes of His Girlfriend Getting an Abortion, ''...upon our return from Tiajuana, a place that all potential papas should know about...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Hunter Thompson Typed Story Featuring His ''Claude Fink'' Protagonist -- Also With an Autograph Letter Signed, ''...It appears I am once again headed for fatherhood...a bad joke IS funny once...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Fantastic Big Sur Content -- ''...that thing that Mr. Gatsby had, that thing that seems now to be permanently out of stock, 'a sense of the promise of life'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...my pendulum has swung toward the sun, and now I fear the inevitable plunge toward darkness. Maybe I will go off a cliff on the cycle...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Funny Content -- ''...C-J wants a story on...'off-beat spots in SF.' These should make me sick enough to become a legitimate ward of the state...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed With Autograph Note From 1960 in Bug Sur -- ''...I presume that, by 'human garbage,' he means that segment of the un-washed masses prone to art, writing...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Exceptional Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed That Reads Like a Short Story -- ''...lo and behold, a Nixon truck passes on Chesnut St. bellowing shit...now naked except for lies and patter...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Twice-Signed ''HST'' From San Juan in 1960 -- ''...This is not a Tahiti ethos, but Cincinnati with a Caribbean twist...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'', One of His First From South America in 1960 -- ''...Once I get a beach house and a scooter, heaven will be within my grasp...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'' in Bold Red Ink -- ''...my mother keeps asking me when I'm going to finish the book...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Children's Advocate & Author Kate Douglas Wiggin Signed ''The Birds' Christmas Carol'', With a Quote From the Book in Her Hand

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Little Bighorn Battle Relic -- U.S. Cavalry Button of Crossed Swords Likely From Custer's 7th Cavalry, Worn by a Soldier at the Battle of Little Bighorn -- From the Stella Foote Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Two Original Sioux Photographs From 1891 -- One Photograph Shows "Bureal of the Dead at the BattleField of Wounded Knee" -- Other Photo Shows Lakota Sioux With Buffalo Bill Cody

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #59: Two Original Photographs From 1891, Shortly After the Wounded Knee Massacre -- One Photograph Shows a Troop of Sioux Cavalry Scouts

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Two Original Sioux Photographs From 1891, Shortly After the Wounded Knee Massacre -- One Photograph Depicts ''Plenty Horses at an Omaha Dance'' at the Pine Ridge Agency

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Two Original Photographs From 1890-91 of the Pine Ridge Agency, Near the Site of the Wounded Knee Massacre -- One Photograph Depicts the 7th Cavalry Encapment Just Days Before the Massacre

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Two Original Wounded Knee Photographs From 1890 and 1891, Shortly After the Massacre -- One Grisly Photograph Shows the Dead Being Hauled Away in a Wagon

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Two Original Photographs From 1891, Shortly After the Wounded Knee Massacre -- One Photograph Shows Captain Charles Taylor With His Indian Scouts

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: John Hancock Revolutionary War Military Appointment Signed in 1776 -- Hancock Appoints an Ensign to the Regiment of Colonel John Stark, "The Hero of Bennington"

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: $9,375

• Lot #65: John Hancock Signed Military Appointment -- Countersigned by John Avery, Jr. & Henry Dearborn

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #66: Henry Laurens Document Signed as President of the Continental Congress -- Blank Military Appointment to the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Samuel Otis Document Signed From 1797 as Secretary of the U.S. Senate -- Otis Confirms John Adams' Retirement from the Senate on the Occasion of Adams' Presidential Inauguration

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Jonathan Corwin, Judge of the Salem Witch Trials, Document Signed as Salem Judge -- Document Has Association to the Infamous Trials

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $6,250

• Lot #69: Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Missing Black Soldiers -- ''...in relation to the Colored Troops...this search can be made nearly as successful as that for the white soldiers...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: George Custer Cabinet Card, Inscribed by General Custer's Wife to Medal of Honor Recipient Colonel George Gillespie

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Jefferson Davis Autograph Letter Signed to Georgia's Governor in June 1861, Asking for Troops -- ''...your well equipped, armed & supplied troops are to us a great relief - thanks for your zeal...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: General Joseph Johnston Autograph Letter Signed From July 1862 While Recovering From His Wounds After Being Replaced by Lee -- ''...I am very anxious to know what to expect on rejoining the army...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Robert E. Lee Signed CDV Photo

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Large 9.5'' x 7.5'' Photograph From 1899 Documenting the Military Court of Inquiry Convened to Investigate the ''Embalmed Beef'' Scandal, Exposing the Chicago Meatpacking Industry

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: WWII Letter From a Prisoner at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp -- on Auschwitz Postcard With Camp ''Rules''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Rene Gagnon WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Hollywood isn't so nice in Wartime...When it comes to courage baby, the Marines haven't anything on you...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Chester A. Arthur Signed Program as President -- For the Unveiling of the Statue of George Washington on Wall Street

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Dwight Eisenhower Autograph Letter Signed in 1944 as Supreme Allied Commander to His Wife Mamie -- ''...I'm a bit puzzled over your outburst about me sending messages via aides and secretaries...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,831

• Lot #80: James Garfield Document Signed as President -- One of the Rarest Presidential Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Jackie Kennedy Signed Photo of the Kennedy Family at the Winter White House in Palm Beach -- From Their Last Easter Together in 1963

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #82: Texas Welcome Dinner Press Pass From the Night of John F. Kennedy's Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Texas Welcome Dinner Press Releases From the Night of John F. Kennedy's Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Commission Signed as President -- With Full ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Ronald Reagan Scarce Signed Limited Edition of ''Ronald Reagan An American Hero'', Also Signed by Nancy Reagan -- One of Only 250 in the Exclusive Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Ronald Reagan Signed First Edition of His Autobiography ''An American Life''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #87: Very Candid Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed, Telling His Long-Time Physical Therapist to Take a Leave of Absence -- ''...I want to write this letter to you in perfect frankness...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed to His Physical Therapist -- ''...I have had a thoroughly good laugh over your letter...while the petting parties among the patients are, of course, serious...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: $1,750

• Lot #89: Rare Franklin D. Roosevelt Campaign Pin From 1940 -- Also Promoting the Democratic Candidate for Governor in Arizona

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Cabinet Photo -- Roosevelt Signs the Photo, Along With Nine Members of His Cabinet, Including William Taft -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Excellent William Taft Letter Signed Regarding the League of Nations -- ''...I am not obsessed by hatred...A good many have been trying to arouse the Jews against the League...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: William Taft Letter Signed, With Additional Autograph Note Signed, Regarding His Appointment to the Supreme Court -- ''...This discussion as to Wilson's appointing me to the Bench only amuses me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Harry Truman Twice-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photograph, Famously Showing Truman Holding Up the ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Newspaper -- Original UPI Press Photo -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Gorgeous 16.5'' x 12'' Photo Signed by Harry Truman & His Cabinet -- From the Estate of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannon

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Woodrow Wilson Cabinet Photo, Signed by All 11 Men Including Wilson -- From Early in Wilson's First Term -- Measures 17.5'' x 15.75'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: David Ben-Gurion Signed Limited Edition of ''Israel: A Personal History''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,500

• Lot #98: Josephine Bonaparte Letter Signed -- The Widow Josephine Writes a Letter of Recommendation for Another Widow

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Napoleon Bonaparte Military Document Signed in 1812 as Emperor of France

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $2,148

• Lot #100: Winston Churchill Signed First U.S. Edition of ''A Roving Commission, My Early Life''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $2,063