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September 2016 Auction Ends Thursday, September 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/29/2016. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #46: Medieval Vellum Bible Leaf -- Scrollwork From 1250 A.D.

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: First English Translation of ''Dante's Inferno'' From 1782

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $8,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand Drawn Illustration of Madeline With Her Dog -- Signed & Drawn Inside Copy of ''Madeline''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: $1,563

• Lot #74: Ludwig Bemelmans ''Welcome Home!'' Signed -- With Sketch of a Young Boy

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Ray Bradbury Signed First Edition of His Classic ''The Martian Chronicles''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Truman Capote's True Crime Masterpiece ''In Cold Blood'' First Edition, First Printing Signed Tipped-In Page

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: James Fenimore Cooper's ''Last of the Mohicans'' First Edition -- Scarce in Original Boards

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: James Fenimore Cooper's ''Last of the Mohicans'' First Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: August Derleth ''Dark Mind, Dark Heart'' First Edition Signed -- One of Only 2,493 First Edition Copies

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Charles Dickens First Printing of ''David Copperfield'' in Serialized Form -- Rare in Original Green Wrappers

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #81: First Edition, First Printing of Charles Dickens' ''Bleak House''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: ''David Copperfield'' First Edition, First Printing by Charles Dickens

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: First Edition of ''Charles Dickens'' by David Copperfield -- Early Printing From 1850

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Very Rare First Edition of William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'' -- In First Edition Dust Jacket -- From the Library of Faulkner Collector Clifton Barrett

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: William Faulkner's ''Light in August'' First Edition, First Printing in Scarce First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: William Faulkner Signed First Edition of ''A Fable'' -- In Original Acetate Wraps & Slipcase

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: William Faulkner First Edition, First Printing of ''These Thirteen'' -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: William Faulkner Signed First Edition of ''Notes on a Horse Thief''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: William Faulkner Signed ''A Green Bough'' -- Rare Limited Edition of Faulkner's Poetry

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: First Edition, First Printing of William Faulkner's ''The Unvanquished''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Perry Mason Mystery Signed by Author Erle Stanley Gardner -- ''The Case of the Duplicate Daughter'' First Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: '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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Allen Ginsberg Signed Poetry Book ''Planet News''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Scarce Copy of ''Faust'' Privately Printed & Inscribed by Its Translator Abraham Hayward -- Presentation Copy With No Auction Records

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: First English Translation of Goethe's ''Faustus'' From 1821 -- For the First Time, English Readers Were Entertained With the Now Classic ''Faustian Bargain''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #96: Watercolor Illustration of Little Orphan Annie & Her Dog Sandy by Author Harold Gray -- Within a First Edition of ''Little Orphan Annie in the Circus''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Seckatary Hawkins Acclaimed Children's Book, ''Stormie The Dog Stealer'' -- 1925 First Edition -- One of the Rarest Titles of the Hawkins Series

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: First Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Twice-Told Tales'' -- One of Only 1,000 Printed, in Scarce Original Binding

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Joseph Heller on His Catch-22 Protagonist -- ''...not for a moment the thought of making Yossarian Jewish. That was a line of development in which I did not want to get involved...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #100: Ernest Hemingway First Limited Edition of ''A Farewell to Arms'' -- Signed by Hemingway

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000

• Lot #101: First Edition, First Printing of Ernest Hemingway's ''Men Without Women''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Advance Review Copy of Ernest Hemingway's ''To Have and Have Not''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #103: Ernest Hemingway First Edition, First Printing of ''Green Hills of Africa'' -- With Unclipped Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #104: Ernest Hemingway First Edition of His Classic ''A Farewell to Arms'' -- In Original Unclipped Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: Ernest Hemingway Original Film Reel -- Features Footage of Hemingway Hunting With Gary Cooper in Sun Valley, Idaho

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #106: Ernest Hemingway's Own Bullfighting Ticket From 27 July 1959 -- From the ''Plaza de Toros de Valencia'' -- Hemingway Wrote About the Bullfights of 1959 in His Final Book

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #107: First Edition, First Printing of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' -- With Typed Letter Signed by Herbert Regarding ''Dune'' Sequels

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #108: Stephen King Signed First Edition of His Masterpiece, ''The Shining'' -- With First Edition Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #109: Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- Lee Reviews a Friend's Book

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #110: Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I hope to attend at least a couple of concerts...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: Author Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- With Mention of Lee's Worsening Macular Degeneration -- ''...can't see, drat it...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Harper Lee Autograph Note Signed -- With Envelope From Mobile, Alabama

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #113: H.P. Lovecraft Printing of ''The Shunned House'' From 1928 -- One of Only 100 Printed Copies Subsequently Printed by Arkham House, With ''Canterbury'' Watermark -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: First Edition of H.P. Lovecraft's ''Beyond the Wall of Sleep''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: First English Printing of ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #116: Herman Melville First U.S. Edition of the Classic ''Moby Dick'' -- In Original Binding

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #117: Margaret Mitchell Letter Signed Regarding Her Fame Following ''Gone With the Wind'' -- ''...The reason I am laid up now is from the pressure of crowds and completely unexpected limelight...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #118: ''Anne of Green Gables'' First Edition, First Printing by L.M. Montgomery -- Rare

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000

• Lot #119: First Edition, First Printing of ''Lolita'' by Vladimir Nobokov

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #120: George Orwell First Edition of His Classic ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' -- With Original Dust Jacket Showing 10s. Price

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #121: Beatrix Potter Signed 1902 First Edition, First Impression of ''The Tailor of Gloucester'' -- Very Rare

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #122: Arthur Rackham Signed First Edition of ''Mother Goose'' -- Limited Edition With 13 Full Color Plates

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #123: Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Number 240 in a Special 10th Anniversary Edition Limited to 2,000

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #124: ''Curious George'' First Edition Signed by H.A. Rey -- First Book From 1941

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #125: Curious George First Edition, Signed by H.A. Rey with Original Ink Drawing -- ''Curious George Rides a Bike'' From 1952

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #126: ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Maurice Sendak -- 1963 Children's Classic in Near Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #127: Dr. Seuss First Printing of ''The Cat in the Hat'' -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: Dr. Seuss' ''The Cat in the Hat'' First Printing

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #129: Dr. Seuss Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: First edition of Dr. Seuss' ''Green Eggs and Ham'' in Unclipped Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #131: Dr. Seuss First Edition, First Printing of His Classic, ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #132: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: True First U.S. Edition of ''Frankenstein'' by Mary Shelley

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #134: Gertrude Stein's ''Lucy Church Amiably'' First Edition -- Scarce Book by the Author Who Coined the Term ''Lost Generation''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #135: John Steinbeck ''Cup of Gold'' First Edition -- In Scarce First Edition Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #136: First Edition, First Printing of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Treasure Island'' in Near Fine Condition -- With Check Signed by Stevenson to His Stepson & Co-Author S. Lloyd Osbourne

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #137: Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Treasure Island'' First Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #138: Lord Alfred Tennyson's ''Poems by Two Brothers'' First Edition From 1827

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #139: First Edition of ''Vanity Fair'' by William Thackeray -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #140: First Edition Set of Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' -- ''Fellowship of the Ring'' & ''Return of the King'' Are First Printings; ''Two Towers'' Is Second Printing -- All Three Are Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $12,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: Attractive First Edition Set of Mark Twain's ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' & ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' -- Both Bound in Publisher's Blue Cloth

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: Mark Twain Signed ''The Works of Mark Twain'' -- Complete 35 Volume Set, Signed Both ''S.L. Clemens / Mark Twain'' in the First Volume

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #143: Mark Twain ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' First U.K. Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: W.B. Yeats Signed Limited Edition of ''Early Poems and Stories''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #145: W.B. Yeats First Edition of His Influential Book of Poetry ''The Tower''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: William Butler Yeats Signed Note to Fan

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: ''Superman From the 30s to the 70s'' -- Signed by 9 of Superman's Contributors Including Illustration Team Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson & ''Death of Superman'' Artists Janke and Bogdanove

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #184: Norman Rockwell Signed First Edition of ''The Norman Rockwell Storybook'' -- 1969

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #185: Garth Williams Hand-Drawing for the Cover Art of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- Signed by Williams on Verso

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #186: Garth Williams Signed Print From the 1953 Edition of ''Little House on the Prairie'' -- Laura Sits in the Grass With Her Beloved Dog Jack

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #188: Artist N.C. Wyeth Signed Limited Edition of ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' -- Wyeth Illustrated the Civil War Novel

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass