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June 2013 Auction Ends Thursday, June 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 6/27/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #549: Collection of First Edition Books -- Lot of 18 Includes Classics ''East of Eden,'' ''Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'' and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,200

• Lot #550: Charles Bukowski Signed First Edition of ''Ham on Rye'' -- With a Small Drawing in His Hand

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: Rare & Obscure Truman Capote Hollywood Memo Signed for a Proposed TV Pilot Based on His Novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' -- 1977

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #552: Clarence Darrow Signed Autobiography & Letter Signed -- ''...being a man of leisure means laziness...and I let the little things of life keep me busier than ever the bigger ones did...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #553: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...all social pleasures is denied me...I lead a mere working life...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,892

• Lot #554: Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed -- "…unable to accept the invitation of the Lord Mayor + Lady Mayoress to the Festival Dinner on April 13th…" -- 1910

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $486

• Lot #555: Alexander Dumas, Jr. Autograph Letter Signed -- Circa 1885

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $364

• Lot #556: T.S. Eliot Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I wish...I could be in Paris and see the exhibition itself, but the problem of currency makes visits to Paris very difficult nowadays...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #557: Incredible F. Scott Fitzgerald Typed Letter Signed on His Top 3 Influences as a Writer -- ''...my father...read an utterly imitative Sherlock Holmes story of mine and pretended to like it...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $13,045

• Lot #558: First Edition, First Printing of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Masterpiece ''The Great Gatsby''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,520

• Lot #559: Ian Fleming Signed First Edition of ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #560: Ian Fleming ''You Only Live Twice'' Signed First Edition -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #561: Two Robert Frost Signed Poetry Quotations -- 1915 ''Birches'' & ''Trial By Existence'' -- ''The utmost reward of daring should be still to dare.''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $401

• Lot #562: Zane Grey Handwritten Manuscript Page From His 1910 Western Novel ''Heritage of the Desert'' -- ''...The sight of it flashed into the gulf of Hare's mind like a meteor into black night...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #563: Zane Grey Autograph Note Signed -- ''...Books are good, but there is nothing better for a boy than familiarity with trees and flowers and birds and fish...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #564: Pristine Edition of Hemingway's Classic, ''The Old Man and the Sea''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #565: Ernest Hemingway Signed Limited Edition of ''A Farewell to Arms''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $4,915

• Lot #566: Ernest Hemingway's ''For Whom The Bells Tolls'' -- First Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $364

• Lot #567: Helen Keller Signed First Edition of Her 1929 Autobiography ''Midstream: My Later Life''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $330

• Lot #568: Rudyard Kipling 1906 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...when he was off for a gallop on his own...he looked...not exactly like a cowboy seen through the wrong end of a telescope...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #569: H.L. Mencken Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... Let me suggest as a subject for debate: 'Which is the happier: the baby yet unborn, or the man just hanged?'...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #570: ''The Christopher Robin Story Book'' by A.A. Milne

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #571: Extremely Rare Margaret Mitchell Signed ''Gone With The Wind'' -- French/Belgian Softcover 1st Edition -- Dated 23 January 1947

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $4,468

• Lot #572: First Edition ''The Pop-Up Minnie Mouse'' 1933 Children's Book -- Plus Three 1960's Charlie Brown Paperbacks 1960's -- Lot of 4

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #573: Eugene O'Neill Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I'm not much on sentiments...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #574: First Edition, First Printing of J.D. Salinger's ''The Catcher in the Rye'' -- With First Issue Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,892

• Lot #575: Dr. Seuss ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' First Printing -- With Original Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #576: Dr. Seuss Signed Early Edition of ''Horton Hatches the Egg''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #577: Dr. Seuss First Edition, Third Printing of ''McElligot's Pool'' From 1947 -- Early Book by the Popular Children's Author

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #578: First Edition, First Printing of John Steinbeck's Classic Novella ''Of Mice And Men'' -- With Unclipped Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #579: Mark Twain Autograph Letter Signed ''S.L. Clemens'' -- Good Content Regarding Publication of an Upcoming Book

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,720

• Lot #580: Handsome 1885 First Edition, First Printing of Mark Twain's Masterpiece, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,290

• Lot #581: Tennessee Williams Signed Review for Author James Leo Herlihy -- ''...This is not a lost generation...but one which has found itself through contempt for social and moral falsities...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #582: ''The Caine Mutiny'' Signed by Its Author Herman Wouk

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $300

• Lot #583: Emile Zola Autograph Letter Signed Discussing His Masterpiece Novel -- ''...I submit to you the full right for Great Britain to translate my book 'Germinal' into...English...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $726