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September 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, September 25th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/25/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #247: Early Draft of a Book by Ray Bradbury & Photographer Aldo Sessa That Never Came to Fruition -- Photography by Sessa Paired With Poems by Bradbury

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #248: Spade Used by George Bernard Shaw to Plant a Mulberry Tree -- Then Owned by Ray Bradbury Who Writes an Original, Unpublished & Lengthy Poem as He Imagined the Scene -- Very Rare

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: $6,250

• Lot #249: Ray Bradbury Hand-Notated Script for the 1977 Academy Awards -- His Own Copy

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #250: Ray Bradbury Lot of 3 German Tax Documents, Each Signed by Bradbury

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #251: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #252: Ray Bradbury Original Poem With His Hand Notations & Corrections -- ''...Where creeks electric flow which drunk through hand or foot...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,829

• Lot #253: Ray Bradbury Handwritten Poem -- ''The Rubes, we want everything everything right and everything bright / lined up in sums -- nothing left out -- everything in! / Poem!''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #254: Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Lot of Presentation Posters of His Poems -- ''America'' & ''The Poet Considers His Resources''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #255: Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Portrait Sketch & Signed Limited Edition Poster Featuring His Poem, ''Then All Is Love? It Is, It Is!''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #256: Ray Bradbury Collection of Four Handwritten Notes on Various Personal Papers -- ''Sword swallower! / Throws up in alley -- don't go there!''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #257: Ray Bradbury Collection of Three Pages of Doodles & Personal Handwritten Notes

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #258: Ray Bradbury Handwritten Notes & Doodles -- Bradbury Recommends Restaurants in Paris

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #259: Ray Bradbury Lot of 30 Signed Checks From 1960 -- Bradbury Writes Checks to Various Bookstores

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,110

• Lot #260: Ray Bradbury Lot of 30 Signed Checks From 1960 -- Bradbury Writes Checks to Various Bookstores

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $916

• Lot #261: Ray Bradbury Lot of 2 Typed Letters Signed -- ''...contact Georgia Holof, my lyricist for 451...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #262: Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Music Sheets of a 1964 Cantata ''Christus Apollo'' -- For Which Bradbury Wrote the Text

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #263: Ray Bradbury Signed Contract Pertaining to Publishing Rights For His Magnum Opus ''Fahrenheit 451''

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #264: Ray Bradbury Document Signed Regarding the Rights for the Stage Version of His Masterpiece ''Fahrenheit 451''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #265: Ray Bradbury Hand-Labeled File Folder -- Containing a Review of His Stage Adaptation of ''Fahrenheit 451'' Published in ''Westways'' Magazine in 1979 -- Near Fine -- With COA From Estate

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #266: Ray Bradbury Owned Pair of Signed Limited Editions of His Work ''The Halloween Tree'' -- One Volume is Unopened -- With Metal Slipcases for Both Books and Matching Metal Outer Case

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #267: Ray Bradbury ''Listening Library'' 1985 Signed Contract

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #268: Ray Bradbury Hand-Corrected Typed Position Statement on the Mars Pathfinder -- ''...technologies and machines are not enough, are they. They human eye must see and know and tell...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #269: Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Luxury Edition of ''The Martian Chronicles'' -- His Earliest Major Book -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #270: Ray Bradbury Signed Contract for a 1972 Play Adaptation of ''The Martian Chronicles''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #271: Ray Bradbury Contract Signed for the Czech Translation & Publication of His Selected Works

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #272: Ray Bradbury Owned George Bernard Shaw Letter Signed ''G.B.S.'' -- On Royal Society of Literature Stationery -- Framed With Photo of Shaw -- 24'' x 18.5'' -- Very Good -- COA From Estate

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $413

• Lot #382: Ray Bradbury Owned Edgar Allen Poe Portraits -- One Hand-Drawn Ink Portrait With the Raven -- Second Portrait Is Mixed Media -- Measures 19.25'' x 23.25'' -- Very Good -- COA From Estate

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $558

• Lot #388: Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Charles Dickens Bust

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #556: Garth Williams Hand-Drawing for the Cover Art of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- Signed by Williams on Verso

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1111: Ray Bradbury Signed ''The Last Circus & The Electrocution'' Book -- With Humorous Sketch by the Imaginative Author

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #1112: Truman Capote's True Crime Masterpiece ''In Cold Blood'' Signed First Edition -- Gifted to a Juror in One of The Murder Trials by the District Attorney

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1113: Julia Child Signed ''Julia Child's Menu Cookbook''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1114: ''Chronicle of England'' by James E. Doyle -- 1864

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1115: ''A Short History of the English People'' by John Richard Green --1902 -- Rare Four Volume Illustrated Edition

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1116: First Edition, First Printing of '''A' is for Alibi'' -- The First Tome in Sue Grafton's Wildly Popular Mystery Series

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1117: Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed -- ''I am not Hemingway (nor was meant to be)...I'm not as reclusive as Thomas Pynchon or J.D. Salinger...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #1118: Joseph Heller Letter Signed -- ''...speaking fees have gotten quite high...No higher, I believe than Vonnegut's or Roth's...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1119: Hemingway Letter Signed the Year Before His Suicide -- ''... for the material sent to Spain last summer...'' -- Referring to the Trip Where He Wrote His Swansong ''The Dangerous Summer''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: $1,750

• Lot #1120: Ernest Hemingway Signed Check From 1952, Filled Out in His Hand -- To Longtime Friend & Manager of His Property in Cuba

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1121: Langston Hughes Typed Letter Signed -- ''...my newly published poem 'Freedom's Plow'...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1122: Rare Signed & Inscribed First Edition of Langston Hughes' Novel, ''Tambourines to Glory''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1123: Harper Lee Autograph Note Signed at the Conclusion of a Lengthy Typed Letter Signed -- ''Forgive me if this letter sounds ungracious & ungrateful...'' -- Also With Exceptional Racial Content

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1124: ''Los Angeles of Today'' -- Nineteenth Century Photo-Illustrated Book Promoting the City of Angels

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1125: Eugene O'Neill Signed Limited Edition of ''Lazarus Laughed''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1126: Eugene O'Neill ''Marco Millions'' Signed Limed Edition

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1127: Eugene O'Neill's 1934 Play ''Days Without End'' Signed Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1128: Dorothy Parker's Signature & Self-Portrait Sketch

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #1129: Rare Deluxe First U.K. Edition & First Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1130: ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' -- First American Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1131: ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' -- First American Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1132: Carl Sandburg Signed First Edition of ''Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1133: ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Maurice Sendak -- 1963 Children's Classic in Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1134: Signed Copy of Maurice Sendak's ''Where the Wild Things Are''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1135: Original Drawing of Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1136: Rare Original Dr. Seuss ''Grinch'' Drawings Signed -- Festive Christmas Greetings

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1137: Dr. Seuss' ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' First Edition, First Printing With First Printing Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1138: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery -- Seuss Writes in Clever ''Thought Bubbles''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $375

• Lot #1139: Dr. Seuss Handwritten Postcard -- During a Trip to East Africa

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1140: Dr. Seuss ''The Eye Book'' -- First Edition, First Printing

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1141: Hard-to-Find 1961 First Edition of Dr. Seuss' ''Ten Apples Up on Top!''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1142: George Bernard Shaw's ''Nine Plays'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1143: Harriet Beecher Stowe Handwrites a Quote From ''Macbeth'' and Signs Alongside William Cullen Bryant Upon a Single Slip

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1144: Gertrude Stein's Lover Alice B. Toklas Signed Postcard -- ''...Carl's [Van Vechten] birthday noticed by the New Republic! - the dissociated Press!! And hundreds of newspapers!!!...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1145: Mark Twain Photograph With Excellent Autograph Quotation Signed Along Mat -- ''Let us save the to-morrows for work. Truly yours, Mark Twain...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1146: 1885 First Edition, First Printing of Mark Twain's Beloved Tome ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #1147: Kurt Vonnegut ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' First Edition Signed With Self-Portrait Sketch

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1148: Signed First Edition of Harold Bell Wright's Last Novel, ''The Man Who Went Away'' -- With Rare Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass