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May 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, May 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/30/2019. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Buzz Aldrin Fantastic Signed 20'' x 16'' Photo of the First Lunar Landing

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Apollo 12 Flown U.S. Flag, Measuring 11.5'' x 8'', Affixed to Presentation Mat Signed by Each of the Apollo 12 Crew Members: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon & Alan Bean -- From Richard Gordon Estate

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: ''The New Nine'' Signed Photo -- Signed by Ed White, Elliot See, Neil Armstrong & Six Others, Comprising Astronaut Group 2 -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Neil Armstrong Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #5: Gene Cernan Signed 10'' x 8'' Apollo 17 Photo With Handwritten Quote, ''America's Challenge Has Forged Man's Destiny of Tomorrow''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Walter Cunningham Signed 16'' x 20'' Photo With Poignant Message on the Legacy of Space Travel -- ''...We changed the way everyone in the world thought of themselves...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #7: Scarce 1937 Letter Signed by Robert H. Goddard, the Father of Space Flight -- ''The subject of rocket power, from an engineering standpoint, is so new...'' -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: Challenger Astronaut Greg Jarvis Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #9: Challenger Astronaut Christa McAuliffe Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,374

• Lot #10: Mercury 7 Signed 11'' x 14'' Photo -- Signed by All 7 Posing in Front of the Mercury 7 Capsule

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: $7,488

• Lot #11: Jack Swigert Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- From His Personal Collection

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: ''Steeds of Apollo'' Oil on Canvas by Apollo XIII Mission Insignia Designer Lumen Martin Winter -- Scarce Painting From 1981 Is Only ''Steeds of Apollo'' Original Artwork Apart From 1969 Mural

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: John Young Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo of Him Standing on the Moon -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Charles Lindbergh Signed Copy of ''The Spirit of St. Louis'' -- Inscribed to the Controversial Historian Harry Elmer Barnes

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Scarce Marie Curie Signed Document From Her ''Institut du Radium'' Laboratory -- Curie Signs Off on an Experiment in Her Lab

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed -- Darwin Writes to His Financial Advisor Regarding an Investment

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: Thomas Edison Twice-Signed Stock Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921, Regarding Anti-Semitism in Germany -- ''...I am supposed to go to Munich, but I will not do that, because this would endanger my life right now...''

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Albert Einstein Letter Signed From 1947 -- ''...the British and the Americans are making the same mistakes as after the first world-war by not preventing Germany to get strong and dangerous again...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #20: Richard Feynman Autograph Manuscript Entitled ''Conversation with Presskill'' -- Comprising Three Pages of Notes on Theoretical Physics

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Already the old Romans knew about love...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Document Signed -- The Iconic Philosopher Issues a Certificate of Learning to His Student

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Scarce David Hume Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one of the most celebrated Booksellers of Paris...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: Louis Pasteur Signed Portrait Engraving

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Enigma Machine Used by Germany During World War II -- Very Scarce, as Germans Were Ordered to Destroy the Machines to Prevent Capture by the Allies

  

  Min Bid: $200,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Enola Gay Crew-Signed Photo by Four Depicting the Atomic Bomb Blast

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: WWII Poem Signed by Five Enola Gay Crew Members -- Tom Ferebee, Theodore Van Kirk, Morris Jeppson, George Caron & Paul Tibbetts

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Extraordinary Letter by Alan Wood Describing Iwo Jima: ''...When they raised a little flag on top of the Mountain the Marines on the beach cheered...a Marine came aboard asking for a larger flag...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: John Quincy Adams Note Signed Related to the 28th Congress

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #30: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I've dashed from here to there & back again until I'm dizzy...'' -- Eisenhower Signs DE, Then Scratches It Out, Writing ''Ike'' to His Wife...

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...to anyone else my writing would merely represent illiteracy or indifference...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Eisenhower Letter Signed as President -- ''...The 'which' clause came into the thing insidiously and without awakening the fears of many -- including capable, even brilliant -- lawyers...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Also Signed as James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Signed Four-Language Ship's Papers -- Jefferson Signs as President & Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Thomas Jefferson Document Signed as President -- 4-Language Ship's Papers Also Signed by James Madison

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: John F. Kennedy Signed ''Profiles in Courage'' -- Inscribed to Famed Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: John F. Kennedy Signed Book as President -- JFK Inscribes ''To Turn the Tide'' to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt ''...who helped turn an earlier tide...'' -- With Slide Photo of JFK Signing

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: JFK During the Cuban Missile Crisis -- ''...Boy, if Fidel Castro had something like you, he would think more about making Love, and less about making war...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Signed Drawing of ''President Kennedy's Wounds'' by Dr. Robert McClelland, the Physician Who Held President Kennedy's Head at the Dallas Hospital

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: News Wire Teletype From 22 November 1963 Regarding the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- ''(DALLAS)--AN UNKNOWN SNIPER FIRED THREE SHOTS''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' Invitation to the Event Honoring President John F. Kennedy the Night of His Assassination

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Alf ''Land On'' Washington Button for FDR's 1936 Republican Challenger -- Alf Landon -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed During the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President -- Lincoln Mistakenly Dates the Proclamation of Amnesty as 8 December 1864 -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $4,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President -- Recommending Employment to a Discharged Soldier

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Military Appointment Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: $4,375

• Lot #47: Ronald Reagan Signed Photo of His Presidential Library -- Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Ronald Reagan Signed First Edition of His Autobiography ''An American Life''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Ronald Reagan Signed Presidential Post-It

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Ronald and Nancy Reagan Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Photo of His ''Turkey Cabinet'' as Governor of New York in 1932 -- Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Franklin D. Roosevelt Photo Jugate Campaign Pin From 1932 -- ''Return Our Country to the People''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Franklin D. Roosevelt Photo Jugate Campaign Pin From Either 1932 or 1936

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt'' -- FDR Writes to His Trusted Physical Therapist Helena Mahoney

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #55: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed to His Physical Therapist Helena Mahoney, Who Famously Helped FDR Continue a Political Career After His Polio Diagnosis

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #56: Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Signed in Full, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt'' -- FDR Writes to His Physical Therapist in 1926 During the Launch of the Polio Treatment Facility at Warm Springs

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #57: Zachary Taylor Document Signed as President -- The Third Rarest Autograph as President

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Harry Truman Signed Farewell Address From 1953 -- ''...The President...has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody...'' & ''...And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Hand-Colored Campaign Banner for the 1848 Free Soil Presidential Ticket That Opposed Slavery & Swung the Election to Zachary Taylor -- Featuring Martin Van Buren & Lithographed by Nathaniel Currier

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: George Washington Autograph Letter Signed, With Bold Writing & Signature -- Washington Writes to His Nephew Bushrod Washington (Thus Signed Twice) Regarding a ''Singular'' Oddity in His Land Holdings

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: George Washington Autograph Free Frank Signature in 1779 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army During the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Fidel Castro Document Signed as Prime Minister From 1960

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Winston Churchill Letter Signed Regarding the Death of WWII Admiral Andrew Cunningham

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: $2,000

• Lot #64: Winston Churchill Signed ''The Hinge of Fate'' -- Part of Churchill's Post-WWII Analysis That Won Him the Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Mahatma Gandhi Signature in His Biography, ''Mahatma Gandhi An Essay in Appreciation'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,781

• Lot #66: Japanese Emperor Hirohito Document Signed From 1931

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Ansel Adams Signed Poster of His Photograph, ''Madrone Bark, Santa Cruz Mountains, California''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Beautiful, Original Artwork Signed by Marc Chagall in His Book, ''Les Ceramiques et Sculptures de Chagall''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: Marc Chagall Signed Photo -- Dramatic Photo Measures 7.75'' x 10''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #70: John Singleton Copley Painting of a Man Identified as John Adams, Painted Circa 1765, When Adams Was a Young Man

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Patrick Nagel Signed Limited Edition Seriagraph of ''Kristen'' From 1983 -- One of Nagel's Most Popular Models

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Jack Davis Illustration of a Man on a Desert Island, Refusing Rescue to Watch TV

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #73: Ward Kimball Drawing of the Band Leader From ''Woodland Cafe''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Ward Kimball Drawing of the Band Leader From ''Woodland Cafe''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Bob Dylan Signed, Handwritten Lyrics to ''Like a Rolling Stone'' -- The Quintessential Rock Song -- With COA From Dylan's Manager

  

  Min Bid: $55,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Paul McCartney Signed ''Life in Photographs'' -- Taschen Limited Edition Photo Book

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #77: Jimmy Page Signed Limited Edition 16'' x 20'' Photo as Rock 'n Roll God -- Playing the Double-Necked Guitar in 1977

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Sex Pistols Ticket for Their Last UK Concert on Christmas Day 1977

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #79: Ringo Starr Signed Photo -- A Very ''Meta'' Photo of Starr Holding His Own Photo, Holding His Own Photo

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Max Reger Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, Plus Handwritten Note Signed -- ''...regard this page with aversion and to turn to another page at once...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Frank Sinatra's Own Custom-Shirt With His Label

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Hans Christian Andersen Autograph Quote Signed Regarding Retirement -- ''The first moment of retirement is the nosegay of the entire journey''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Under Deadline for ''Oliver Twist'': ''...I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: 'Perry Mason'' Author Erle Stanley Gardner Typed Letter Signed -- ''...You want to know what it is that makes male stars in the late fifties still attractive to young girls...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Thomas Hardy Signed Limited Edition of His Works -- 37 Volume Mellstock Edition, Rare in Original Cloth

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Ernest Hemingway Signed Presentation Copy of ''Old Man and the Sea'' -- Signed in 1954, the Year He Won the Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #88: Ernest Hemingway's Own Bullfighting Ticket From 6 August 1959 -- From the ''Plaza de Toros'' in Malaga, Spain -- Hemingway Wrote About the Bullfights of 1959 in His Final Book

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: James Joyce Autograph Letter Signed in 1923, Shortly After the Publication of ''Ulysses'' in 1922 -- ''...I am almost going out of my mind in this impossible situation...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Sylvia Plath's Signed Library Card

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Beatrix Potter Signed First Edition, Second Issue of ''Roly-Poly Pudding''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''Rum Diary'' Near Done: ''...Went over the 300 pg mark tonight & hope to wrap it up at 340 or so. Another week at least, maybe two - no longer...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Hunter Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...The RD [Rum Diary] is almost there. I can hardly believe it, but feel certain it will never be published. No matter. Just to finish the bastard is enough...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1967 -- ''...not a penny yet from Random on the book, and a big court/contract battle is shaping up...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Hunter Thompson Letter Signed -- ''Random thinks I'm halfway through the Rum Diary revisions...Things here are quietly terrifying. I plan to leave the state before fall. If not, I'll go to jail...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...Kazinga. The zip is on. Got a call from my tambourine man agent tonight, saying we just cracked Random for $10,000...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...the contract I just signed: $6000 guarantee against royalties for a paperback on Cycle gangs...Things are hopping...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed on 17 May 1965, the Day His Hell's Angels Article Debuted -- ''...I may be on the verge of writing a book...on what they call 'fringe types'...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed With Gripping Personal Content -- ''...Ah, jesus, the pressure of this place, the screams of the drowners and the jackal laughter of those in the rafts...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Hunter Thompson 4pp. Letter Signed -- ''you'll have to pardon me for not having the faintest idea what the fuck a trump card is'' & ''a man must literally squeeze his own balls to write a good book''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass