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August 2013 Auction Ends Thursday, August 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 8/29/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

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Lot #105: 'Gone With The Wind'' Author Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I have heard hotter arguments about who shall play Scarlett than I ever heard about the Supreme Court...''

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #388: Ludwig Bemelmans ''Welcome Home!'' Signed -- With Sketch of a Young Boy

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #389: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand-Drawn Sketch & Signed Inscription Within His Popular Book, ''Madeline's Rescue''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #390: Garth Williams' Preliminary Illustration for ''Charlotte's Web'' -- Initialed and Numbered by the Artist -- Unfinished Sketch on the Verso

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #391: August Derleth ''Habitant of Dusk'' Limited Edition Signed

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #392: T.S. Eliot Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I wish...I could be in Paris and see the exhibition itself, but the problem of currency makes visits to Paris very difficult nowadays...''

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $715
Lot #393: Ralph Waldo Emerson Nicely Matted and Framed Signed 1860 Essay, ''Worship'' From the Well-Regarded Collection, ''The Conduct of Life''

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $715
Lot #395: Allen Ginsberg Signed Poetry Book ''The Fall of America''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #396: Allen Ginsberg Signed Poetry Book ''Planet News''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #397: Zane Grey Handwritten Manuscript Page From His 1910 Western Novel ''Heritage of the Desert'' -- ''...The sight of it flashed into the gulf of Hare's mind like a meteor into black night...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #398: Zane Grey Autograph Note Signed -- ''...Books are good, but there is nothing better for a boy than familiarity with trees and flowers and birds and fish...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #399: Joseph Heller Autograph Letter Signed -- ''By all means, help yourself to the papers at Brandeis...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #400: Joseph Heller Letter Signed Regarding Guillain-Barre Syndrome -- ''...I'm well over half way back and most of the rest now seems to be simply a matter of regaining muscle strength...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #401: ''The mission you ask about never happened''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #402: Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed -- ''...[make] available to him any information about my military service that he wishes to obtain...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #403: Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed -- ''...The arrival of your volume Critical Essays on Catch-22 this weekend delighted me...''On ''Critical Essays on Catch-22''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #404: Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Concerning my coming there to speak, I'm flattered that you're making the attempt...I can be had for less, but don't tell...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #406: Oliver Wendell Holmes Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Have had a hard time of it with my old enemy...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #407: Rare Signed Copy of Captain W.E. Johns' ''Biggles Flies East''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #408: Rudyard Kipling 1906 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...when he was off for a gallop on his own...he looked...not exactly like a cowboy seen through the wrong end of a telescope...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $300
Lot #409: H.L. Mencken Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... Let me suggest as a subject for debate: 'Which is the happier: the baby yet unborn, or the man just hanged?'...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #422: J.D. Salinger 1966 Letter Signed -- Scarce Content on Politics & Vietnam -- ''...They asked me to justify American policy in Vietnam and were rather shocked...our VN policy stinks...''

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: $9,424
Lot #423: Signed Copy of Maurice Sendak's ''Where the Wild Things Are''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #424: Maurice Sendak 1967 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it seems my 'Wild Things' has caused quite a sensation...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #425: Maurice Sendak Autograph Letter Signed Upon a Card Featuring His ''Nutcracker'' Artwork -- ''...After 3 Tiresome Weeks Pissing Over the Ballet (Nutcracker)...This Winter I Am Home...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #426: Maurice Sendak Autograph Note Signed on a Postcard to a Puppeteer

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #427: Dr. Seuss Signed Original Handwritten Poem -- ''...I'm glad you don't / have to share a shower / after class / with David Eisenhower''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #428: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery -- Seuss Writes in Clever ''Thought Bubbles''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #429: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #430: Dr. Seuss Typed Letter Signed -- ''...we are still running back and forth to Hollywood, but we hope things will let up...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #431: Jonathan Swift Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I can make no wishes for either of you, but a good Voyage without sickness or accidents...'' -- Written Shortly After He Penned His Own Obituary

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #434: ''The Writings of Mark Twain'' 37 Volume Set -- Signed Both ''S.L. Clemens'' and ''Mark Twain'' to Volume 1

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #436: Children's Book Illustrator Garth Williams Signed Drawing -- Early Cover Art For the 1959 Book ''Emmett's Pig''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #437: Garth Williams Drawing For The Cover Art of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- Signed by Williams on Verso

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #438: Tennessee Williams Signed Review for Author James Leo Herlihy -- ''...This is not a lost generation...but one which has found itself through contempt for social and moral falsities...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass

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