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September 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, September 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/27/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $5,500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #2: Lewis Carroll Autograph Poem Signed in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' -- Carroll Cleverly Composes an Acrostic Poem Where the First Letter of Each Line Reveals a Message

  

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Charles Dodgson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...I have much pleasure sending a presentation copy of 'Alice' for your daughter...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: 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: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Large 19th Century Lithographic Poster of ''David Copperfield'' by Jules Cheret, Advertising the 1885 French Edition -- Measures 33.5'' x 48''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: First Edition, First Printing of ''The Great Gatsby''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #7: Thomas Hardy Signed Limited Edition of His Works -- 37 Volume Mellstock Edition, Rare in Original Cloth

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: Joseph Heller Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...About Catch-22...you undoubtedly know more about the book and the events surrounding it than I do...I would not trust my memory...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #9: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' First Edition, First Printing -- In the First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: George MacDonald Signed First U.S. Edition of His Masterpiece, ''At the Back of the North Wind'' -- Inscribed to His Aunt, ''for her children''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: First Edition, First Printing of Pulitzer Prize Novel, ''The Late George Apley'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With The Wind'' -- In Rare First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #14: Sylvia Plath Twice-Signed Driver's License From 1958 -- Plath Also Handwrites Her Addresses, Including ''9 Willow St.''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Alexander Pope Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I really think it worth no man's while to do any great or good action for any other motive than the inward satisfaction of his own conscience...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Beatrix Potter Signed 1902 First Edition, First Impression of ''The Tailor of Gloucester'' -- Very Rare

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed -- Salinger Recommends ''Bonnie B. Good'' for a Teaching Position

  

  Min Bid: $3,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: George Bernard Shaw Signed First Edition of His ''Magnum Opus'', ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' -- Inscribed to the Famous Mexican Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez, -- ''...in hope that we will have more grapes than wrath...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Incredible Hunter S. Thompson Archive of 182 Letters -- "…I am not going to be either the Fitzgerald or the Hemingway of this generation…I am going to be the Thompson of this generation…"

  

  Min Bid: $110,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: First Edition Set of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' -- A Complete Second Impression Set in Their Original Dust Jackets, With Maps Present

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: 1507 First Edition of ''Decachordum Christianum'' by Cardinal Marcus Vigerius -- With 43 Cuts Presenting the Life of Christ

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Bill Wilson Signed Copy of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book -- ''...of your devotion to AA's Grapevine...Bill''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass