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January 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, January 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 1/30/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: ''The Fables of Aesop'' 1668 Second Edition, With Over 80 Engraved Plates Illustrating the Fables -- Large Folio Measures 11'' x 16.5''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: $2,250

• Lot #2: L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' First Edition, Second State

  

  Min Bid: $3,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Charles Bukowski Original Artwork From ''The Day It Snowed in L.A.'' -- One of Only 11 Copies of the Limited Edition Signed by Bukowski & Containing His Hand-Drawn Illustration From the Book

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Illustrated 1901 Edition of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' by Lewis Carroll

  

  Min Bid: $460

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: James Fenimore Cooper Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: August Derleth ''Dark Mind, Dark Heart'' First Edition Signed -- One of Only 2,493 First Edition Copies

  

  Min Bid: $275

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: August Derleth ''Habitant of Dusk'' Limited Edition Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: Large 19th Century Lithographic Poster of ''David Copperfield'' by Jules Cheret, Advertising the 1885 French Edition -- Measures 33.5'' x 48''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: William Faulkner Signed ''A Green Bough'' -- Rare Limited Edition of Faulkner's Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Suicide Attempt of Dorothy Parker -- ''...How's Dotty? What are you guys doing driving the poor little woman almost to suicide...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Three Times, Including as ''Hemingstein'', Announcing the Birth of His Son -- ''...This makes three boys - a matador - a banderellero and a sword handler...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #13: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...bring your shortwave set down to Key West and we could try to turn an honest penny running Chinamen...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Ernest Hemingway Envelope Signed

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #15: Laura Ingalls Wilder Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Pa called me Flutterbudget because I was so quick always fluttering here and there...Pa and Ma never had any of those modern things...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: James Joyce ''Ulysses'' First English Edition From 1922 -- #389 of 2,000 Copies in the Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: Stephen King Signed First Edition of ''Firestarter'' -- Signed in 1980, a Week Before Its Official Publication

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' First Edition by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Beatrix Potter Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I have to confess I have borrowed a sled...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Ezra Pound Signed Copy of His Translation for ''Confucian Analects'' -- Pound Inscribes the Copy to Poet Thomas Cole -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1917 -- ''...it is lovely that these well-deserved successes add their noble radiance to your mourning...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Number 1,780 in a Special 10th Anniversary Edition Limited to 2,000, With Rare Slipcase

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: H.A. Rey Signed Drawing of Curious George, Drawn Inside ''Curious George Takes a Job''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $1,209

• Lot #24: 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: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #25: J.K. Rowling Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' Written Under Her Pseudonym Robert Galbraith -- With Beckett Authentication

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,650

• Lot #27: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint Signed Deluxe Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' -- Plus J.K. Rowling & Rupert Grint Signed Screenplay -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: $963

• Lot #29: J.K. Rowling Signed Screenplay for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: J.K. Rowling & Rupert Grint Signed Screenplay for ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''The Tales of Beedle the Bard'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #32: J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: J.K. Rowling First Printing of ''The Tales of Beedle the Bard'' -- With Custom Pouch, Case & All Ten Collector's Edition Prints

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $550

• Lot #34: Rare Deluxe First U.K. Edition & First Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $550

• Lot #35: Original ''Wild Things'' Drawing by Maurice Sendak -- Included With a Signed Limited 25th Anniversary Edition of ''Where the Wild Things Are'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Dr. Seuss' ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' First Edition, First Printing With First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Dr. Seuss Handwritten Postcard -- During a Trip to East Africa

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: First Edition of ''Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara -- Pulitzer Prize Winning Historical Novel Recounting the Four Days of the Gettysburg Battle

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Shel Silverstein Signed Copy of ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' -- A Very Rare Title Signed by Silverstein

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: German Language Edition of ''Solomon and Marcolf'' -- Bound in Wood & Leather With Metal Clasp

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: John Steinbeck's ''The Winter of Our Discontent'' Limited First Edition of 500 Copies, Made For Friends of the Author & Publishers

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 UK Edition of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: $875

• Lot #43: Nobel Prize Recipient Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''Zapata'' That Reads Like a Short Story: ''...I might have a go at the bible...Faith in what?...In god, Grapefruit or the Final Orgasm with the Queen of the Jews...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Hunter Thompson Letter -- ''...The nagging lust to rewrite the novel prevents me from focusing on journalism, and the necessity of paying the bills with journalism keeps me from...the novel...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1964 -- ''...Gone creepy sentimental, like Salinger, who may be dead by now. Ah this writing is a shitty game and god knows what will come of my involvement in it...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Hunter Thompson Letter With Hand Annotations -- ''...we will both be old men before the world power structure rests on another three-cornered sense of humor like Kruschev, Kennedy and Pope John...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1964 Regarding Politics, Racism & the Birth of His Son -- ''...Malcom [sic] X is a black Goldwater, and apparently just as dense...I now have a son named Juan...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Fascinating Hunter S. Thompson Letter From March 1964 Regarding the Sheraton Palace Hotel Strike, ''phoney liberals'' & More -- ''...I honestly think the Establishment has got the fear...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Hunter Thompson 1964 Letter on ''Cassius X'', JFK & More -- ''...Kennedy was killed, so now we sit in a limbo where the decent man has a variety of things to vote against, but nothing to vote for...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Hunter Thompson Letter With Hand-Annotations -- ''...That is the problem in this country; the network of pleasant ignorance that surrounds nearly everything...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Hunter Thompson Letter From 1964 -- ''...[Bob] Dylan is a goddamn phenomonen [sic], pure gold, and mean as a snake...listen to his 'Masters of War'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Hunter S. Thompson Typed Letter From 1964 With Hand-Annotations -- ''...I am going to California, and for no particular reason...God fuck us all...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Hunter S. Thompson Typed Letter, With Handwritten Note -- ''...My position has always been that I distrust power and authority...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Mark Twain ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' First Edition, Second Printing -- Bound in Publisher's Blue Cloth

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' Signed by Author Lew Wallace -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Children's Advocate & Author Kate Douglas Wiggin Signed ''The Birds' Christmas Carol'', With a Quote From the Book in Her Hand

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Virginia Woolf First Edition, First Printing of Her Second Novel ''Night and Day''

  

  Min Bid: $320

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Disney Limited Edition Sericel of ''Reflection of Love'' From ''Beauty and the Beast'' -- Signed by Seven of the Animators & Directors on the 1991 Academy Award Winning Film

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Bugs Bunny Limited Edition Hand-Painted Cel Signed by Legendary Animator Friz Freleng

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Disney Limited Edition Sericel From ''Cinderella'' -- Signed by the Actress Who Voiced Cinderella in the Original 1950 Film

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Limited Edition of Bob Kane's ''Batman & Me'' -- Includes Hand-Drawn Signed Sketch of Batman in Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $650

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Ward Kimball Drawing of the Band Leader From ''Woodland Cafe''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip From 1970 -- Featuring Franklin & Peppermint Patty

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Disney Limited Edition Sericel of ''Two Hero Party'' From ''Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day'' -- Signed by the Actor Who Voiced Winnie the Pooh

  

  Min Bid: $375

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: ''White Heron'' Print by Artist John James Audubon -- ''Birds of America'' Collection -- Large Sheet Measures 39.5'' x 26.5''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Artist Francis Bacon Signed Book Page With His Photo -- His ''Three Studies of Lucien Freud'' is The Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #68: Ludwig Bemelmans Watercolor From ''Marina'', Measuring 24'' x 16.5'' -- Featuring the Shark Who Swallows Marina & the Porpoises Who Save Her

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: $2,000

• Lot #69: '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: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Alexander Calder Autograph Note Signed -- ''...I am off to Europe...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: Howard Chandler Signed Illustration of His Famous ''Christy Girl'' -- Elegant Portrait Measures 6'' x 9.5''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: H.R. Giger Signed Limited Deluxe Edition of ''Biomechanics'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Mastermind Behind The Statue of Liberty Edouard Laboulaye Autograph Letter Signed -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $375

• Lot #75: Henri Matisse Autograph Letter Signed on the Verso of a Postcard Featuring His Painting ''Pianist and Checker Players''

  

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed -- Monet Orders Wine for the Art Critic Octave Mirbeau, and Praises an Order of Asparagus

  

  Min Bid: $1,900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed -- Monet Writes to His Wine Merchant

  

  Min Bid: $1,900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: LeRoy Neiman Signed Serigraph of ''Olympic Slalom''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: LeRoy Neiman Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen of ''Tennis Players''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Rembrandt Peale Autograph Letter Signed Regarding One of His Last Paintings, ''Coast Scene'' -- ''...I painted it with much pleasure as the most natural effect of water I had ever seen...''

  

  Min Bid: $450

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: Pablo Picasso Signed ''Modele nu et Sculptures'' Etching -- From the Desirable Vollard Suite of Etchings

  

  Min Bid: $6,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Pablo Picasso Autograph -- Within an Autograph Book Owned by Film Director Harry Lachman, Featuring Dozens of Signatures by His Friends, Including Sergei Diaghilev & Angel Zarraga

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Norman Rockwell Signed Print of His Beloved Piece ''Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas''

  

  Min Bid: $450

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Dr. Seuss Large Artwork From 1955 -- Featuring an Early Grinch Prototype Two Years Before His Famous Character Debuted in ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!''

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Movie Poster for the Andy Warhol Film ''My Hustler'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: Andy Warhol Sketches His Famous Campbell's Soup Can -- Drawn Upon a Signed First Edition of ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: Edward Weston's ''Winter Idyll'', Printed & Signed in a Limited Edition by Cole Weston

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: Garth Williams Hand-Drawing for the Cover Art of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- Signed by Williams on Verso

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Frank Lloyd Wright Signed Book, ''Architecture and the Modern Life'' -- One of the Rarer Titles Signed by Wright

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Artist N.C. Wyeth Signed Limited Edition of ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' -- Wyeth Illustrated the Civil War Novel

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Gorgeous World Map, Circa 1700 During the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography -- Hand-Colored Map Shows Dual Hemispheres, Dual Polar Projections & Allegorical Scenes Representing the Four Seasons

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: First Edition of ''America, Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World'' From 1671 by John Ogilby -- A Superior Copy With Nearly All 58 Plates & Maps Present

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Roald Amundsen Signed Photograph -- Showing His Crew Dismantling the Famed ''Norge'' Aircraft

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: William Bligh Document Signed From 1798 for His Ship, the HMS Director -- Like the HMS Bounty, the HMS Director Also Mutinied Under Bligh's Command

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: William Bligh 1792 First Edition of ''A Voyage to the South Sea'' -- The Thrilling Account of Bligh's 1789 Command of the HMS Bounty, Resulting in the Famous ''Mutiny on the Bounty''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,500

• Lot #96: Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay Signed First Day Cover -- With Limited Edition Coin Marking the 25th Anniversary of Everest's First Ascent

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Meriwether Lewis Autograph Letter Signed, Two Months Before the Lewis & Clark Expedition -- In What Would Be Lewis' Lifelong Battle With Reimbursed Debt, He Defends Against Money He Purportedly Owes

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: Buzz Aldrin Signed ''Life'' Magazine -- Uninscribed -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Buzz Aldrin 20'' x 16'' Photo Signed of the First Lunar Landing

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #101: Buzz Aldrin Signed Limited Edition Apollo 11 Command Module Model -- Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Buzz Aldrin 8'' x 10'' Photo Signed ''First Lunar Landing / Buzz Aldrin / Apollo XI'' -- With Steve Zarelli COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass