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September 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, September 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/27/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #2: Lewis Carroll Autograph Poem Signed in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' -- Carroll Cleverly Composes an Acrostic Poem Where the First Letter of Each Line Reveals a Message

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Charles Dodgson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...I have much pleasure sending a presentation copy of 'Alice' for your daughter...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: 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: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Large 19th Century Lithographic Poster of ''David Copperfield'' by Jules Cheret, Advertising the 1885 French Edition -- Measures 33.5'' x 48''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: First Edition, First Printing of ''The Great Gatsby''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Thomas Hardy Signed Limited Edition of His Works -- 37 Volume Mellstock Edition, Rare in Original Cloth

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: Joseph Heller Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...About Catch-22...you undoubtedly know more about the book and the events surrounding it than I do...I would not trust my memory...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' First Edition, First Printing -- In the First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: George MacDonald Signed First U.S. Edition of His Masterpiece, ''At the Back of the North Wind'' -- Inscribed to His Aunt, ''for her children''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: First Edition, First Printing of Pulitzer Prize Novel, ''The Late George Apley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With The Wind'' -- In Rare First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #14: Sylvia Plath Twice-Signed Driver's License From 1958 -- Plath Also Handwrites Her Addresses, Including ''9 Willow St.''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Alexander Pope Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I really think it worth no man's while to do any great or good action for any other motive than the inward satisfaction of his own conscience...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Beatrix Potter Signed 1902 First Edition, First Impression of ''The Tailor of Gloucester'' -- Very Rare

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed -- Salinger Recommends ''Bonnie B. Good'' for a Teaching Position

  

  Min Bid: $3,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: George Bernard Shaw Signed First Edition of His ''Magnum Opus'', ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' -- Inscribed to the Famous Mexican Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez, -- ''...in hope that we will have more grapes than wrath...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Incredible Hunter S. Thompson Archive of 182 Letters -- "…I am not going to be either the Fitzgerald or the Hemingway of this generation…I am going to be the Thompson of this generation…"

  

  Min Bid: $110,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: First Edition Set of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' -- A Complete Second Impression Set in Their Original Dust Jackets, With Maps Present

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: 1507 First Edition of ''Decachordum Christianum'' by Cardinal Marcus Vigerius -- With 43 Cuts Presenting the Life of Christ

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Bill Wilson Signed Copy of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book -- ''...of your devotion to AA's Grapevine...Bill''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #25: Giacomo Puccini AMQS for ''Tosca'' -- Large Sheet Measures 4.5'' x 7''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: 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: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Richard Strauss Signed, Handwritten Musical Manuscript for the Final Scene in His Opera, ''Die schweigsame Frau''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Beatles Signed Photo From 1962 With Pete Best as Drummer -- Signed by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Best -- PSA Slabbed

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: $8,750

• Lot #29: David Bowie Signed Limited Edition of ''The Rise of David Bowie, 1972-1973'' -- Taschen Book With Fantastic, Personal Images of Bowie From His Early, Ziggy Stardust Days

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: David Bowie Signed Limited Edition of ''From Station to Station Travels With Bowie 1973-1976''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Bob Dylan Signed Double Album ''Blonde on Blonde'' -- With Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Eagles Signed ''Hotel California'' Test Pressing LP From 1976 -- With Roger Epperson COA for All 5 Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Grammy Signature Book From the 2015 Award Show -- Signed by 71 Celebrities Including Paul McCartney, Madonna, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Adam Levine, Tony Bennett & More

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Paul McCartney Signed ''Life in Photographs'' -- Taschen Limited Edition Photo Book

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Jimmy Page Signed Limited Edition 16'' x 20'' Photo -- Holding His Double-Necked Guitar in Concert

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Jimmy Page Signed Limited Edition 16'' x 20'' Photo as Rock 'n Roll God -- Playing the Double-Necked Guitar in 1977

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Jimmy Page Signed 16'' x 20'' Photo -- One of Only 50 Signed by Page in a Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: Jimmy Page Signed Limited Edition of ''ZoSo'', His Photographic Autobiography -- The Collector Edition

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Pink Floyd Signed ''Ummagumma'' Album -- Signed by All Four Members: Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason & David Gilmour -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: Pink Floyd Signed Christmas Card -- Signed by Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters and David Gilmour -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: ''Queen The Complete Works'' Autographed by All Four Band Members -- One of 600 in a Signed Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: $2,813

• Lot #42: Hand-Colored ''Grey Fox'' Lithograph From the 1843 Edition of John James Audubon's ''The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America'' -- Measures 28'' x 21.75''

  

  Min Bid: $6,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: John Audubon 1846 ''The Cougar'' Lithograph From ''The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America'' -- Measures 20'' x 26''

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: 'Baltimore From Federal Hill'' Hand-Colored Folio Aquatint From 1831 by William James Bennett -- ''...Pronounced by judges to be the best print of the kind ever published in the United States...''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: 17th Century Hand-Colored Map of the Americas by Noted Cartographer Willem Blaeu -- Entitled ''A New Map of America''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Salvador Dali Signed Sketch of a Cavalier Rider Upon His Horse -- With a COA From the Salvador Dali Gallery

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: ''The Americans'' First U.S. Edition Photography Book, With an Introduction by Jack Kerouac

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Jasper Johns ''Light Bulb'' Lithograph -- Hors Commerce 3 of 7

  

  Min Bid: $11,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I will not deprive myself of the pleasure of coming to see your Cezanne exhibition...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Pablo Picasso Signed ''Modele nu et Sculptures'' Etching -- From the Desirable Vollard Suite of Etchings

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Pablo Picasso Signed Limited Edition of ''Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: 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: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Andy Warhol Signed Iconic Campbell's Soup Label

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Andy Warhol Signed Poster of His Famous Elizabeth Taylor Work

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Andy Warhol Signed 50'' x 35'' Poster, With Hand-Drawn River, From His ''American Indian'' Series -- Here Featuring Activist Russell Means, a Leader at Wounded Knee

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Edward Weston's ''Winter Idyll'', Printed & Signed in a Limited Edition by Cole Weston

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Frank Lloyd Wright Signed 11'' x 14'' Photograph

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ''Visible Speech''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Scarce Marie Curie Signed Document From Her ''Institut du Radium'' Laboratory -- Curie Signs Off on an Experiment in Her Lab

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #60: Charles Darwin Letter Signed -- ''...take proper steps to keep me out of any legal difficulties...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Thomas Edison Twice-Signed Stock Certificate

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on God & Unified Field Theory, With Mathematical Equations in His Hand Regarding the Theory -- ''...It is devilishly difficult to get closer to 'Him'...''

  

  Min Bid: $50,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed Regarding His United Field Theory: ''...I have been brooding and calculating almost all of my days and half of the nights...'Unified Field Theory'...''

  

  Min Bid: $50,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1918, Predicting His Nobel Prize Years Before Winning It

  

  Min Bid: $32,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed in 1932 on the Economy & His Nobel: ''...I am neither socialist nor communist...unskilled workers - will be brought down to an ignoble subsistence level...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: 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: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Albert Einstein Twice-Signed Letter About a Priest -- ''...the parson is a very kind person whose thinking is...in accord with my own, even in matters, about which one will hardly believe it...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed in 1946 Regarding His Sister's Stroke -- ''...the immense patience and empathy with which you have sweetened for her these years of 'being exiled'...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #69: Albert Einstein Letter Signed to Composer Walter Kaufmann -- ''...You know how highly I esteem your artistic competencies...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Rare Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on His Jewish Roots & Psychoanalysis -- ''...the Freud family is said to sometime have left their hometown of Köln during a period of persecution of Jews..."

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #71: Scarce David Hume Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one of the most celebrated Booksellers of Paris...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Carl Linnaeus Document Signed -- Rare Document by the Leading 18th Century Scientist, the ''Father of Modern Taxonomy''

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Gorgeous & Important Botanical Book From 1727, ''Phytographia curiosa'' by Abraham Munting -- With 245 Engraved Folio Plates

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: James Watson and Francis Crick Signed First Day Cover -- With a Drawing by Watson of a DNA Double Helix -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Artwork Signed by 14 Apollo Astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Edward White, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper, John Young, John Glenn, Charles Conrad, Elliot See, James Lovell & 5 More

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Huge Lithograph Signed by All But One of the Apollo Moonwalkers

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Apollo 9 Flown U.S. Flag & Mission Patch -- With Certificate Signed by Crew Members Dave Scott, James A. McDivitt and Rusty Schweickart

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed ''Type Three'' Insurance Cover -- Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed Postcard Honoring the Astronauts & Their Visit to Germany -- Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Apollo 12 Flown United States Flag, One of the Largest Apollo Flown Flags at 18'' x 11.5'' -- From the Collection of Richard Gordon Who States That the Flag Landed on the Lunar Surface

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: $15,000

• Lot #81: Apollo 13 Large 14'' x 11'' Color Photo, Crew-Signed on the Presentation Mat & Inscribed by Jack Swigert to Houston Oilers Owner Bud Adams

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Bible Flown to & Landed Upon the Moon During the Apollo 14 Mission -- One of Only 11 Copies With Official Certification by Both Astronaut Edgar Mitchell & Apollo Prayer League Director Rev. John Stout

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Alan Bean Signed 16'' x 20'' Lunar Photo With Fantastic Handwritten Detail on Working in His Space Suit -- ''...As you can see, both legs are getting dirty with moon dust...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Alan Bean 16'' x 20'' Signed Photo, With His Personal Story on How He Collected ''Pristine Moon Dust''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Gene Cernan Signed 20'' x 16 Photo with Extensive Handwritten Quote -- ''America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Smithsonian Program From 1948 for ''The Presentation of the Wright Brothers' Aeroplane of 1903'' -- Very Rare, With Infamous Smithsonian ''Label'' Printed Within

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Piece of the 1905 Wright Flyer III Plane -- Incredibly Rare With Only a Handful Owned Privately

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Orville Wright Letter Signed Regarding the Permanent Display for the 1903 Kitty Hawk, the ''First in Flight'' Plane: ''...I don't propose to be a victim of the high pressure salesmanship...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Orville Wright Letter Signed Regarding the 1908 Flyer & a Harvard Astronomer's Prediction That Planes Would Never Surpass Cars in Speed -- ''...Astronomers seem to be given to rash predictions...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Orville Wright Signed Photo -- Beautiful Matte Photo Measures 10.75'' x 13.75'' -- With Accompanying Photograph of the Kitty Hawk Taking Flight

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Stamp Act -- Adams Gives Documents and ''broken hints'' to Jedidiah Morse for ''Annals of the American Revolution'', on Events ''Five and Forty years ago''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: John Adams 4-Language Ship's Papers Signed as President -- With French Certification Attached to Document, Dated Less Than One Month Before the French-American Naval ''Quasi-War'' Erupted

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Chester A. Arthur Signed Program as President -- For the Unveiling of the Statue of George Washington on Wall Street

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Bill Clinton Signed 20'' x 15'' Photograph of His Entire Cabinet -- Signed by All 23 Including Clinton & Al Gore

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: 1860 Campaign Portrait Flag Banner for Stephen Douglas -- One of Less Than 10 Known Examples

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: 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...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Dwight D. Eisenhower Sketches as President -- Eisenhower Draws an Interesting Profile of a Angry Man With Another Man Inside His Head -- From the Malcolm S. Forbes Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...An advance copy of Sat. Eve Post of 3 Oct just arrived. Has quite an article about me & my family...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: James Garfield Document Signed as President -- One of the Rarest Presidential Signatures

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass