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January 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, January 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 1/30/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #5: James Fenimore Cooper Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #6: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #8: August Derleth ''Habitant of Dusk'' Limited Edition Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: William Faulkner Signed ''A Green Bough'' -- Rare Limited Edition of Faulkner's Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Suicide Attempt of Dorothy Parker -- ''...How's Dotty? What are you guys doing driving the poor little woman almost to suicide...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Three Times, Including as ''Hemingstein'', Announcing the Birth of His Son -- ''...This makes three boys - a matador - a banderellero and a sword handler...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #13: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...bring your shortwave set down to Key West and we could try to turn an honest penny running Chinamen...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #14: Ernest Hemingway Envelope Signed

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #15: Laura Ingalls Wilder Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Pa called me Flutterbudget because I was so quick always fluttering here and there...Pa and Ma never had any of those modern things...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: Stephen King Signed First Edition of ''Firestarter'' -- Signed in 1980, a Week Before Its Official Publication

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: Beatrix Potter Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I have to confess I have borrowed a sled...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: Ezra Pound Signed Copy of His Translation for ''Confucian Analects'' -- Pound Inscribes the Copy to Poet Thomas Cole -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1917 -- ''...it is lovely that these well-deserved successes add their noble radiance to your mourning...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Number 1,780 in a Special 10th Anniversary Edition Limited to 2,000, With Rare Slipcase

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: H.A. Rey Signed Drawing of Curious George, Drawn Inside ''Curious George Takes a Job''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $1,209

• Lot #24: Curious George First Edition, Signed by H.A. Rey With His Original Ink Drawing of Curious George -- ''Curious George Rides a Bike'' From 1952

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #25: J.K. Rowling Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' Written Under Her Pseudonym Robert Galbraith -- With Beckett Authentication

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,650

• Lot #27: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint Signed Deluxe Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' -- Plus J.K. Rowling & Rupert Grint Signed Screenplay -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: $963

• Lot #31: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''The Tales of Beedle the Bard'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $750

• Lot #32: J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Dr. Seuss Handwritten Postcard -- During a Trip to East Africa

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Shel Silverstein Signed Copy of ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' -- A Very Rare Title Signed by Silverstein

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Nobel Prize Recipient Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''Zapata'' That Reads Like a Short Story: ''...I might have a go at the bible...Faith in what?...In god, Grapefruit or the Final Orgasm with the Queen of the Jews...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #45: Hunter Thompson Letter -- ''...The nagging lust to rewrite the novel prevents me from focusing on journalism, and the necessity of paying the bills with journalism keeps me from...the novel...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #46: Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1964 -- ''...Gone creepy sentimental, like Salinger, who may be dead by now. Ah this writing is a shitty game and god knows what will come of my involvement in it...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Hunter Thompson Letter With Hand Annotations -- ''...we will both be old men before the world power structure rests on another three-cornered sense of humor like Kruschev, Kennedy and Pope John...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1964 Regarding Politics, Racism & the Birth of His Son -- ''...Malcom [sic] X is a black Goldwater, and apparently just as dense...I now have a son named Juan...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #49: Fascinating Hunter S. Thompson Letter From March 1964 Regarding the Sheraton Palace Hotel Strike, ''phoney liberals'' & More -- ''...I honestly think the Establishment has got the fear...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Hunter Thompson 1964 Letter on ''Cassius X'', JFK & More -- ''...Kennedy was killed, so now we sit in a limbo where the decent man has a variety of things to vote against, but nothing to vote for...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Hunter Thompson Letter With Hand-Annotations -- ''...That is the problem in this country; the network of pleasant ignorance that surrounds nearly everything...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Hunter Thompson Letter From 1964 -- ''...[Bob] Dylan is a goddamn phenomonen [sic], pure gold, and mean as a snake...listen to his 'Masters of War'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Hunter S. Thompson Typed Letter From 1964 With Hand-Annotations -- ''...I am going to California, and for no particular reason...God fuck us all...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Hunter S. Thompson Typed Letter, With Handwritten Note -- ''...My position has always been that I distrust power and authority...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' Signed by Author Lew Wallace -- With JSA COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Children's Advocate & Author Kate Douglas Wiggin Signed ''The Birds' Christmas Carol'', With a Quote From the Book in Her Hand

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass