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September 2016 Auction Ends Thursday, September 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/29/2016. Final prices include buyers premium.

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Lot #1: John Johnson's 1978-79 Seattle SuperSonics NBA Championship Ring -- Obtained Directly From His Estate

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $70,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #2: Jamaal Wilkes' Hall of Fame Ring Obtained Directly from Him -- Fine

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $20,000

Final Price: $25,000
Lot #3: George H.W. Bush Custom-Made Watch With a Handwritten Letter by Bush Attesting to its Authenticity -- Watch Has Gold ''George Bush'' Lettering

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $5,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #4: Jimmy Carter Typed Letter Signed as President -- ''...your views on our foreign aid program...''

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $413
Lot #5: Bill Clinton Typed Letter Signed as President 1 Day Before He Left Office -- ''...a matter of national security interest to the United States...'' -- Signed With Full Name ''William J. Clinton''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: $1,000
Lot #6: President Bill Clinton Senate Impeachment Trial Ticket -- Admits Bearer to the Senate Diplomatic Gallery

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #7: Official U.S. Consulate Sign Circa Early 1900s -- Scarce

# Bids: 14

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $1,580
Lot #8: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... this war is just one drive for time!...I don't like to appear a weakling or a sissy...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #9: Dwight Eisenhower 1953 Letter Signed Regarding His Supreme Court Appointment -- ''...I shall...restore some of the prestige that the Court lost...through the New Deal and Fair Deal...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #10: Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed as President on His USSR Appointment That Joseph McCarthy Complained Had ''Advanced Soviet Power'' -- ...The Bohlen appointment was not a 'deal.'...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #11: Dwight D. Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed ''...I assure you that there is nothing complacent in the attitude I take toward the Communist menace...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #12: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed 8'' x 10'' Military Photo

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #13: President Gerald Ford Asks for Advice on Vice Presidential Nominees in 1976 -- ''...I am asking that you send me your suggestions by August 11, 1976...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: Pass
Lot #14: Set of Two 10'' x 13'' Signed Photos by Warren Harding & Florence Harding

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #15: Rutherford B. Hayes Large Document Signed as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #16: Herbert Hoover Signed Memoirs -- Set of 3 Books, All Signed

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #17: Andrew Jackson Land Grant Signed as President in 1830

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #18: Thomas Jefferson Scarce Signed 1st Edition of the First U.S. Census -- One of Only a Handful Signed & Ratified by Jefferson

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $30,000

Final Price: $66,435
Lot #19: Thomas Jefferson's 1st U.K. Edition of ''Notes on the State of Virginia'' -- From 1787

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $7,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #20: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #21: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed First Edition of ''The Professional''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #22: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed ''The Vantage Point'' First Edition

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #23: 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...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #24: Lot of Items From the ''Texas Welcome Dinner'' That President John F. Kennedy Was to Attend the Night of His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #25: John F. Kennedy Dinner Invitation, Welcoming Him to Texas the Night of His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: Pass
Lot #26: Press Kit From the JFK Texas Welcome Dinner the Night of His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: Pass
Lot #27: ''The Dallas Morning News'' Announces ''CLUB OWNER KILLS OSWALD'' & Second Paper ''LBJ Takes Over Government Reins''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #28: ''The Dallas Morning News'' Announces ''KENNEDY SLAIN ON DALLAS STREET''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #29: Robert Kennedy Signed Photo -- With Signed Provenance from Senator Strom Thurmond

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #30: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President in August 1861

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $5,000

Final Price: $6,250
Lot #31: Penholder Made From Abraham Lincoln's Home in Springfield, Illinois -- With COA Affidavit From State of Illinois

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #32: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: W/D
Lot #33: James Monroe Land Grant Signed as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $450

Final Price: Pass
Lot #34: Richard Nixon Handwritten Notes From 1958 -- Likely Notes From a Speech, With Arguments on Conservatism -- ''...I believe in Private rather than govt enterprise...Are you a Conservative...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #35: Richard Nixon Letter Signed as President From November 1973 Regarding the War Powers Bill -- ''...I fervently hope the dangerous ramifications of this measure can be avoided...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #36: Richard Nixon Typed Letter Signed as President From 1973 -- ''...oppose unnecessary programs which could result in tax increases and high inflation for the American taxpayer...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #37: President Richard Nixon 1973 Letter Signed on the Paris Peace Accords Ending the Vietnam War -- ''...Now that we have finally achieved peace with honor in Vietnam...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #38: Richard Nixon Impeachment Trial Ticket -- Unused U.S. House Ticket to the Impeachment Trial

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #39: Richard Nixon Signed Souvenir Resignation

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #40: Richard Nixon Signed First Edition of ''RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: Pass
Lot #41: Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed as President, Sending Birthday Wishes -- ''...Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #42: Ronald Reagan Typed Letter Signed in 1978 -- ''...You are doing a great job; keep it up...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #43: William Howard Taft Bill-Signing Pen Used as President to Sign the Pan-Pacific Exhibition in 1911 -- The Exhibition Was to be Held in San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #44: ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Newspaper -- The Most Famous Newspaper Mistake of All Time

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #45: Harry Truman Signed 2 Volume Set of His ''Memoirs'' -- Each Volume Signed in Near Fine Condition

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $450

Final Price: Pass
Lot #46: Medieval Vellum Bible Leaf -- Scrollwork From 1250 A.D.

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #47: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: W/D
Lot #48: Scarce Civil Rights Artwork Given to Attendees at the ''March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom'' -- Stunning Images

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #49: Jefferson Davis Signed CDV Photo

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,800

Final Price: $2,250
Lot #50: Diary by 43 MA Infantryman -- Siege of Little Washington: ''...places where the fire...had ignited and left burning hundreds of old dead...'' & ''...a negro deck hand had his arms shot off...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #51: Declaration of Independence Signer Lyman Hall Document Signed -- One of the Rarest of Declaration Signers -- With COA From University Archives

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $5,000

Final Price: $6,250
Lot #52: Extremely Rare John Hancock Signed Book, From His Library -- One of Only a Handful of Signed Books From Hancock's Library Sold at Auction

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $10,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #53: Continental Congress President Henry Laurens Signed Military Appointment for the Revolutionary War

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #54: John Bradley's Personally Owned U.S. Marines-Issued Combat Boots -- Used at Iwo Jima -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $8,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #55: John Bradley's Personally Owned U.S. Marines-Issued Combat Knife -- Likely Used at Iwo Jima -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $6,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #56: Lot of Four 8'' x 10'' Signed Photos of the Iwo Jima Flag Raisers, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon & Ira Hayes -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $4,500

Final Price: $5,625
Lot #57: Fascinating Booklet Signed & Handwritten by WWII Hero John Bradley -- Bradley Takes Medical Notes in His Role as Hospital Corpsman -- Includes His ''Chemical Warfare Pocket Reference Card''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #58: Joe Rosenthal & the 3 Iwo Jima Flag Raisers Signed Photo of the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #59: Iwo Jima Flag Raisers 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo -- Signed by John Bradley, Ira Hayes & Rene Gagnon -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: $3,750
Lot #60: John Bradley & Rene Gagnon Signed WWII Poster of the Iwo Jima Flag Raising

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,250
Lot #61: Iwo Jima Hero John Bradley's Very Own Program for the 1954 Marine Corps War Memorial Dedication -- Memorial Is the Sculptural Representation of the Iwo Jima Flag Raising

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #62: Iwo Jima Flag Raiser, John Bradley Lot of 339 Checks Signed -- Spanning His Post WWII Life From 1952-1993 -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: $1,259
Lot #63: Iwo Jima Flag Raiser, John Bradley Lot of 340 Checks Signed -- Spanning His Post WWII Life From 1952-1988 -- From John Bradley's Estate

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $350

Final Price: $858
Lot #64: John Bradley Lot of 6 Signed Items Related to Iwo Jima -- From the John Bradley Estate

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $734
Lot #65: General Douglas MacArthur Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Thank you so much for your birthday greeting. I appreciate it deeply. It made my day a brighter one, indeed...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #66: Thomas Edison Signed Copy of ''A Million And One Nights: A History of The Motion Picture''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #67: Sigmund Freud Signed Autobiography -- Rare First ''Offprint'' Edition

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: $4,160
Lot #68: Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientist Hans Krebs in 1953, Won for His Discovery of the Famous Krebs Cycle -- With Krebs' Nobel Prize Diploma

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $375,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #69: Rare First Edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ''The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'' -- Two Volume Set From 1729

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $18,000

Final Price: $22,500
Lot #70: Isaac Newton 1721 Edition of His Highly Influential ''Opticks'' -- The Last Edition Published in Newton's Lifetime

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #71: James D. Watson ''The Double Helix'' Signed -- 22K Gold Detailing

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #72: First English Translation of ''Dante's Inferno'' From 1782

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $8,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #73: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand Drawn Illustration of Madeline With Her Dog -- Signed & Drawn Inside Copy of ''Madeline''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: $1,563
Lot #74: Ludwig Bemelmans ''Welcome Home!'' Signed -- With Sketch of a Young Boy

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #75: Ray Bradbury Signed First Edition of His Classic ''The Martian Chronicles''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #76: Truman Capote's True Crime Masterpiece ''In Cold Blood'' First Edition, First Printing Signed Tipped-In Page

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #77: James Fenimore Cooper's ''Last of the Mohicans'' First Edition -- Scarce in Original Boards

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $12,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #78: James Fenimore Cooper's ''Last of the Mohicans'' First Edition

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,150

Final Price: Pass
Lot #79: August Derleth ''Dark Mind, Dark Heart'' First Edition Signed -- One of Only 2,493 First Edition Copies

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #80: Charles Dickens First Printing of ''David Copperfield'' in Serialized Form -- Rare in Original Green Wrappers

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: $3,125
Lot #81: First Edition, First Printing of Charles Dickens' ''Bleak House''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #82: ''David Copperfield'' First Edition, First Printing by Charles Dickens

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #83: First Edition of ''Charles Dickens'' by David Copperfield -- Early Printing From 1850

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #84: Very Rare First Edition of William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'' -- In First Edition Dust Jacket -- From the Library of Faulkner Collector Clifton Barrett

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $20,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #85: William Faulkner's ''Light in August'' First Edition, First Printing in Scarce First Printing Dust Jacket

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #86: William Faulkner Signed First Edition of ''A Fable'' -- In Original Acetate Wraps & Slipcase

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #87: William Faulkner First Edition, First Printing of ''These Thirteen'' -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #88: William Faulkner Signed First Edition of ''Notes on a Horse Thief''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #89: William Faulkner Signed ''A Green Bough'' -- Rare Limited Edition of Faulkner's Poetry

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #90: First Edition, First Printing of William Faulkner's ''The Unvanquished''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #91: Perry Mason Mystery Signed by Author Erle Stanley Gardner -- ''The Case of the Duplicate Daughter'' First Edition

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #92: '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...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #93: Allen Ginsberg Signed Poetry Book ''Planet News''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #94: Scarce Copy of ''Faust'' Privately Printed & Inscribed by Its Translator Abraham Hayward -- Presentation Copy With No Auction Records

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #95: First English Translation of Goethe's ''Faustus'' From 1821 -- For the First Time, English Readers Were Entertained With the Now Classic ''Faustian Bargain''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,250
Lot #96: Watercolor Illustration of Little Orphan Annie & Her Dog Sandy by Author Harold Gray -- Within a First Edition of ''Little Orphan Annie in the Circus''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #97: Seckatary Hawkins Acclaimed Children's Book, ''Stormie The Dog Stealer'' -- 1925 First Edition -- One of the Rarest Titles of the Hawkins Series

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #98: First Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Twice-Told Tales'' -- One of Only 1,000 Printed, in Scarce Original Binding

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #99: Joseph Heller on His Catch-22 Protagonist -- ''...not for a moment the thought of making Yossarian Jewish. That was a line of development in which I did not want to get involved...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #100: Ernest Hemingway First Limited Edition of ''A Farewell to Arms'' -- Signed by Hemingway

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $4,000

Final Price: $5,000

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