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July 2025 Auction Ends Thursday, July 31st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 7/31/2025. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #77: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed on His Writing Method: ''The first type script will be only a working script...when it is all done and checked and rechecked will we go into a final draft''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Why should you care that both my typewriters are on the blink...That I have a hundred pages of m.s. in handwriting and no one to type...Oh! No!...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Here is some more of that dreadful manuscript for you...I damn well just have to get some writing done...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...use [a recorder] constantly for listening back to my own not immortal words. In fact, on listening back many of my words prove very mortal indeed...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Twice-Signed Including with His Full Signature, ''John Steinbeck'' -- ''...My work, while continuing, is very confused and confusing...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I don't particularly want comment until I'm well along. Also please keep the contents under your mental hat. I don't want my theme to get out...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... I think you should get your mind off marriage and think of something a little more elevated like sex...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I can't seem to operate without hundreds of false starts...After so long a lay-off from writing I feel like an amateur...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Draft Revealing that His Family Was One of the Very Early Christian Settlers of Palestine in 1850

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: John Steinbeck Handwritten Rhyming Verse -- ''When all your friends have left you, And life seems but a wreck, May you tumble through your ass hole, And break your fuckin' neck...''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- ''...It is not true that you are only homesick for a good home...''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: John Steinbeck Letter Signed from Sag Harbor, New York -- ''I built a little model of a tiny work room...It will be like a small lighthouse...and it will have nothing in it except my work things''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: John Steinbeck Letter Signed from Sag Harbor, New York -- ''...I told him that it was not his responsibility and that he or his brother should phone me immediately if any violence broke out...''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- ''...It is the story of an elf in Algiers during the preparation for the Italian Invasion...The book will be called Once There Was A War...''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- Steinbeck Gifts a Cross Made of Wood Found in Jerusalem by His Grandfather After a Lightning Storm -- ''...My grandfather Steinbeck was in the Holy Land...''

  

  Min Bid: $700

  Final Price: $875

• Lot #92: John Steinbeck Postcard Referring to Himself in the Third Person -- ''...Old false start JS is up to his tricks again...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Walt Whitman Autograph Note Signed with a Very Large, Bold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $1,100

  Final Price: $1,375