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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 #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

• Lot #101: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed on New Year's Eve, 1961 -- ''...Novel is bogged down horribly. Starting over again...'' -- Thompson Also Writes of Football, His Favorite Sport

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed, Traveling Cross-Country -- ''...I am traveling with 3 guns, 2 gallons of wine, no money, Agar & a big can of gun-powder...must finish Rum Diary...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Twice-Signed as a Young 21-Year Old -- ''...The egalitarian haste of the modern american negro will put us all in the grave: all in the same grave, of course...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...the people you want to 'expose' don't give a fuck about anything except making money. They are beyond shame & without conscience...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...The worst kind of dropout scene -- where the drop creates no noise, no circles in the water...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #106: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it seems obvious to me now that you should enter the priesthood...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #107: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Literary Critique & Mention of the 1968 Democratic Convention -- ''...As for Chicago, I plan to be there...It may be the end of the world as we know it...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...this is not a friendly community to those who can't pay. And now the same money-grubbing swine call me 'Hunter' and offer me credit...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #109: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The key issue is a roof...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #110: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Ugly times here. Friend Trudi has decided to make the ranch into a pottery shop...which means we're evicted...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1967 -- ''...I'm in a terrible agent snarl again. I have to come there & cut all the Gordian knots...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed, After Planting Roots in Colorado -- ''...I am now the proprietor of Trudi Pederson's spread up Woody Creek...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #113: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...The ms. [manuscript] was just gathering dust...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...My ambition now is to ride the bike to the NCAA basketball finals and then load up on LSD for all four games...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Am considering a total change to a concept of a 'Hell Angels Notebook'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #116: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''Thompson'' -- ''...It was decent sitting there with...my kid running around like a little animal in the sun...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #117: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...'The People' are a myth. They are their own enemies - life is a bread riot...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #118: Fantastic Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed From 1964, With Additional Autograph Note -- ''...Personal Journalism is the Wave of the Future...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...me and [Alfred] Kazin are in there, hustling for the White Establishment...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...No amount or quality of Journalism can preserve that fine, high sound...maybe fiction will come closer...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'' -- ''...As a failing artist, unable to come to terms with the capitalist warlords...Up the Republic! And Fuck All!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Have just been evicted...Sandy still swollen [pregnant] - The Fear is on me...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1961 -- ''...time passing, child growing, terror mounting...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #124: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...we will shoot & drink & flatter each other...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #125: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- ''...I have turned my genius to re-creating Big Sur in the image of Playboy. If it bounces I will do the blood-dance...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed From Big Sur in 1960 -- ''...incredible country: Colorado by the sea...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Thomas Wolfe Signed First Printing, First Edition of ''Look Homeward, Angel'' -- Signed in 1929, the Year of Publication

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #192: Elizabeth Taylor and Cast-Signed Book ''Life With Father'' -- Additionally Signed by Irene Dunne, William Powell, Director Michael Curtiz & More

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass