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March 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, March 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/27/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #477: Ludwig Bemelmans ''Welcome Home!'' Signed -- With Sketch of a Young Boy

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #478: Ludwig Bemelmans Hand-Drawn Sketch & Signed Inscription Within His Popular Book, ''Madeline's Rescue''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #479: Ludwig Bemelmans Signed & Hand-Drawn Elephant Sketch Upon His Classic ''Madeline'' Book

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #481: Pearl S. Buck's Novel, ''The Patriot'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #484: Roald Dahl Signed ''James and the Giant Peach'' -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #485: August Derleth ''Habitant of Dusk'' Limited Edition Signed

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #487: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...regret that my engagements would in any case have prevented my having the honor of presiding at the meeting of last night...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #488: Ralph Ellison ''Invisible Man'' Signed -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #489: Nice, Clean William Faulkner Signature in His Novel ''Requiem For A Nun''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #490: Limited Edition of ''A Green Bough'' Signed By William Faulkner -- Rare Copy of Faulkner's 2nd Book of Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #492: Ian Fleming ''You Only Live Twice'' Signed First Edition -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #493: Perry Mason Mystery Signed by Author Erle Stanley Gardner -- ''The Case of the Duplicate Daughter'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #495: 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 #496: Joseph Heller on His Catch-22 Protagonist -- ''...there was 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...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #498: Hemingway Letter Signed the Year Before His Suicide -- ''... for the material sent to Spain last summer...'' -- Referring to the Trip Where He Wrote His Swansong ''The Dangerous Summer''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #500: Rare Signed Copy of Captain W.E. Johns' ''Biggles Flies East''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #501: James Jones Signed First Edition of His Classic Novel ''From Here to Eternity''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $344

• Lot #502: Stephen King Signed Postcard -- ''CHRISTINE will be out in May....sleep with the bathroom light on and the covers tucked in and you'll be alright. Probably...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #503: Stephen King Signed First Printing of ''Different Seasons''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #504: Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I simply don't give interviews, because it takes great skill to ask meaningful questions and very few people in the media have it...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #505: Clever Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...thank you for alll the things you do, have done, and will do. (This reads like Nixon's pardon.)...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #506: Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Other than old age and decrepitude, we're fine!...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #507: Jack London's ''Call of the Wild'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #509: Gorgeous Signed Limited Edition of Cormack McCarthy's ''No Country For Old Men'' -- The Novel That Inspired 2007's Best Picture -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #510: '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...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #511: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition of Her Novel ''Gone With The Wind'' -- With Original Dustjacket

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #512: Two Margaret Mitchell Typed Letters Signed (One with Great Content) Regarding Her Policies for Autographing Copies of ''Gone with the Wind'' Making This Pasted-In Signed Copy One of Her Last

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $3,328

• Lot #514: Eugene O'Neill Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I'm not much on sentiments...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #520: Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Her Magnum Opus -- Number 721 in a Special 10th Anniversary Edition Limited to 2,000

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: $2,188

• Lot #521: Ayn Rand Signed First Edition of ''Anthem'' in Beautiful Condition

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #525: Very Special ''Where the Wild Things Are'' -- Maurice Sendak Signs and Sketches a Wild Thing

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #526: Maurice Sendak 1967 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it seems my 'Wild Things' has caused quite a sensation...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #527: Original Drawing of Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #528: Dr. Seuss Whimsical Drawing of ''The Cat in the Hat''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $4,000

• Lot #532: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery -- Seuss Writes in Clever ''Thought Bubbles''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #533: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I'm at present, involved in the enclosed Grolexus, which is whirlzing me fithither...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #534: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Audrey is now recuperating fast from the grim experience of having a brain tumor removed. (successfully!)...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #535: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...now I'm going swimming to prepare my body temperature for the Rodeo tomorrow...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #536: Dr. Seuss Typed Letter Signed -- ''...please digest mentally the enclosed material concerning the catching of seals in West Greenland...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #542: 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

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #545: ''The Writings of Mark Twain'' 37 Volume Set -- Signed Both ''S.L. Clemens'' and ''Mark Twain'' to Volume 1

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #546: Mark Twain Check Signed as Samuel Clemens

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #547: Noah Webster Document Signed -- 1812 Deed in Amherst, Massachusetts

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #548: Rare Walt Whitman Signed Portrait Engraving -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #549: Garth Williams Drawing for the Cover of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- With an Initialed Note in His Hand Regarding Changes for the Next Draft

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass