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May 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, May 29th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/29/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #49: George H.W. Bush Signed Copy of ''Speaking of Freedom''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #59: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Memoir, ''The White House Years''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #61: Gerald Ford Signed Easton Press Edition of His Autobiography ''A Time to Heal''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Herbert Hoover Signed Copy of ''The Basis of Lasting Peace'' -- 1945 Book on the United Nations

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #92: John F. Kennedy Signed Biography -- Rare Title Signed by the President -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,691

• Lot #114: Richard Nixon Signed Memoir ''In The Arena'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: President Richard Nixon Signed Copy of ''RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #116: Richard Nixon ''Seize The Moment'' Signed -- Inscribed ''To Donna and Josh Dilloa / With best wishes / from Richard Nixon'' -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #133: Carl Sandburg Signed 1st Edition of the Monumental Four Volume ''Abraham Lincoln: The War Years''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #150: Harry Truman Signed Presidential Memoir ''Year of Decisions''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #194: Queen Victoria Signed Memoirs -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $686

• Lot #225: General Mark Clark ''Calculated Risk'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #232: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed ''Crusade in Europe'' -- His Acclaimed WWII Memoir

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #254: Early Edition of Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #306: Ansel Adams Signed First Edition of His Majestic Work, ''Yosemite and the Range of Light''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #310: Henri Cartier-Bresson ''The Decisive Moment'' First American Edition -- First Edition Photo Collection by the ''Father of Modern Photojournalism''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #313: Garth Williams' Original Hand-Drawing of Wilbur for ''Charlotte's Web'' -- ''Illustration #11''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #328: Rare Helmut Newton ''Special Collection 24 Photo Lithos'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #333: Norman Rockwell Signed First Edition of His 1960 Autobiography ''Norman Rockwell My Adventures as an Illustrator''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #344: Andy Warhol Twice Signed Catalog of His Work

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #349: Frederick Cook ''My Attainment of the Pole'' -- Controversial Explorer Signs 1911 First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #351: Sir Edmund Hillary ''High Adventure'' Signed -- Recounting the First Ascent of Everest

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #353: Rare Autobiography Signed by Everest Sherpa Tenzing Norgay -- ''After Everest''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #358: Signed First Edition of ''The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909'' -- One of Only 300 Printed, Signed by All 16 Members of Shacketon's Shore Party

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #370: James D. Watson ''The Double Helix'' Signed -- 22kt Gold Detailing

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $262

• Lot #372: Buzz Aldrin Limited Edition Signed Copy of ''Men From Earth'' -- Numbered 1,080 of 1,500 -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #383: Limited Edition of ''Skyward'' Signed by Admiral Richard Byrd -- Includes Fabric from His Actual Aircraft

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #389: Charles Lindbergh Signed Presentation Copy of ''The Spirit of St. Louis'' -- Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #446: Very Special Signed & Hand-Drawn Copy of Original ''Madeline'' -- Ludwig Bemelmans Adds Inscription and Charming Christmas Drawing

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #450: Lord Byron Signed Envelope -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #453: Roald Dahl Signed ''James and the Giant Peach'' -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #458: William Faulkner Signed First Edition of Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel ''A Fable''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #460: William Faulkner Signed ''Notes on a Horse Thief'' -- Rare First Edition of Only 950 Copies Signed by Faulkner

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #466: Rare Perry Mason Mystery Signed by Author Erle Stanley Gardner -- ''The Case of the Duplicate Daughter'' First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #467: Rare Allen Ginsberg Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am out here all summer at Naropa...with a whole gang of poets...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #471: Zane Grey 1937 Holograph Check Signed -- Prolific Author of Popular Western Novels

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #472: 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: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #474: Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition of His Masterpiece, ''For Whom the Bell Tolls''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,407

• Lot #475: First Edition of ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' Inscribed to Hemingway's Cuban Doctor

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #480: Amazing Ernest Hemingway Signed Photograph of a Lion and Its Hunt While on Safari -- Large Photograph Measures 11'' x 9''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $6,544

• Lot #481: Ernest Hemingway Letter Signed with Superb Content Regarding Working on ''The Old Man and the Sea'' and Calling Himself ''Shy and Embarrassed When People Talk About My Books or My Life''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #482: Oliver Wendell Holmes Autograph Letter Signed -- 1888

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #487: Signed Copy of Stephen King's First Novel, ''Carrie'' -- First Edition, First Printing in Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,477

• Lot #490: Rudyard Kipling Signed Limited Edition Set of His Complete Works -- Extremely Rare in Original, Cream-Colored Dustjackets

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #491: Rudyard Kipling Signed Handwritten Poem -- ''When Earth's Last Picture is Painted''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,049

• Lot #496: Harper Lee Letter Signed -- ''...I tremble at Mockingbird's falling into the hands of professors and being Analyzed to death...one academic nut at large declares that Truman Capote wrote it!...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,948

• Lot #502: Signed First Edition of ''Notes on Democracy'' by Satirist H.L. Mencken

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #503: ''The Christopher Robin Story Book'' Signed by Winnie the Pooh Author A.A. Milne & Illustrator Ernest Shepard

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,066

• Lot #504: Signed Limited Edition of A.A. Milne's Masterpiece ''The House at Pooh Corner''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #512: Limited Edition of Eugene O'Neill's ''Strange Interlude'' Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #513: Dorothy Parker Signed ''Sunset Gun'' Limited Edition -- With Scarce Original Slipcase

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #515: Dorothy Parker Large Framed Photo With Inscribed & Signed Border -- 1928

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #516: The Great Rarity of the Signed Book Trade -- A Thomas Pynchon ''Gravity's Rainbow'' Autographed 1st Edition, 1st Printing -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $21,013

• Lot #518: Ayn Rand's ''Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal'' Signed Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #519: J.K. Rowling Signed ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $624

• Lot #534: Carl Sandburg Biography Signed by Both Sandburg and Biographer Harry Golden -- ''Millions of Americans...Know and Love Carl Sandburg''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #539: Very Special ''Where the Wild Things Are'' -- Maurice Sendak Signs and Sketches a Wild Thing

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #540: Maurice Sendak 1967 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it seems my 'Wild Things' has caused quite a sensation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #544: Dr. Seuss Signed First Edition of ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' -- Scarce 1949 Title Signed

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #546: Very Rare ''The Lorax'' First Edition, First Printing Signed by Dr. Seuss

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #547: Dr. Seuss ''McElligot's Pool'' First Edition -- Inscribed and Signed with Drawing by Author

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #550: Dr. Seuss Handwritten Letter Signed -- ''...I'm at present, involved in the enclosed Grolexus, which is whirlzing me fithither...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...six solid days have been spent with photographers and interviewers...all of whom promised it would be quick and painless. It never was. It never is...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #552: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...I am still up to my neck in that movie...'' -- 1971

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #553: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...I would have enjoyed taking you to the anthropological museum, which in my opinion is one of the greatest examples of excellence in the entire world...'' -- 1971

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #554: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...we shall have dinner and talk about EXCELLENCE...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #555: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery -- Seuss Writes in Clever ''Thought Bubbles''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #556: Dr. Seuss Autograph Letter Signed on ''Cat in the Hat'' Stationery -- ''...I must tell you how I swam from Shanghai to Auckland, New Zealand, but not back...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #557: Dr. Seuss Signed Original Handwritten Poem -- ''...I'm glad you don't / have to share a shower / after class / with David Eisenhower''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #559: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...Thank you for the prospectus of your autumnal activities...'' -- 1986

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #560: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...we are still running back and forth to Hollywood, but we hope things will let up...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #561: Dr. Seuss Letter Signed -- ''...After finishing up a three week promotion tour for my new book...will be giving up drawing and mountain climbing for a spell...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #562: Upton Sinclair Signed First Printing of ''The Jungle'' -- Inscribed to Fellow Christian Socialist George Herron

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #564: John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' -- Fine Piece of American Literature Signed by the Author the Year After He Won the Nobel Prize

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,562

• Lot #571: Handwritten 1881 Letter Signed by Samuel Clemens About Illustrations for ''The Prince and the Pauper'' -- ''...I don't know what the size of the new work will be...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #572: Mark Twain Signs Both His Names -- Samuel Clemens & His Pseudonym Mark Twain to ''The Writings of Mark Twain''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #573: Kurt Vonnegut Signed ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' -- Classic 1969 Novel Based on WWII Bombing of Dresden

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #575: Early Noah Webster Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I will doubtless have your money immediately...'' -- 1788

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #576: Scarce Signed Photo of Pioneering Poet, Walt Whitman -- Bold Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #678: First Edition, First Printing of Alcoholics Anonymous ''Big Book'' -- Origin of the AA Twelve Step System

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $6,544

• Lot #681: Dan Beard ''Buckskin Book'' Signed -- 1929 Boy Scouts of America Woodcraft Series

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $349

• Lot #685: ''Julia Child & Company'' First Edition Signed by the Famed French Chef

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $196

• Lot #696: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Copy of ''The FBI Story''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178