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September 2017 Auction Ends Thursday, September 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/28/2017. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #256: Sir Joshua Reynolds Autograph Letter Signed -- Reynolds Corresponds With a Patron (Likely Sir William Hamilton) in 1772, Asking for Payment of 32 Guineas for Two Paintings

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #399: Ray Bradbury Signed Contract Pertaining to Publishing Rights For His Magnum Opus ''Fahrenheit 451''

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #400: Ray Bradbury Document Signed Regarding the Rights for the Stage Version of His Masterpiece ''Fahrenheit 451''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #402: Noel Coward Handwritten & Signed Poem -- Composed in 1933 for Helen Hayes' Daughter -- ''...The talented and witty man / Who wrote these charming lines! / Noel Coward...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #403: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #405: William Faulkner Signed ''A Green Bough'' -- Rare Limited Edition of Faulkner's Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #407: Thomas Hardy Signed Limited Edition of His Works -- 37 Volume Mellstock Edition, Rare in Original Cloth

  

  Min Bid: $4,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #409: 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 #410: Joseph Heller on His Catch-22 Protagonist -- ''...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 #411: Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ''A Farewell to Arms'' -- Scarce in Original Slipcase

  

  Min Bid: $8,250

  Final Price: $10,313

• Lot #414: Stephen King Signed Limited Edition of ''Christine'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #415: Stephen King Signed Copy of ''The Stand'' -- ''Complete & Uncut'' Edition

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #416: Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I hope to attend at least a couple of concerts...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #417: Federico Garcia Lorca Signed Drawing of His Poetry Collection ''Canciones'' -- Lorca Incorporates a Beautiful Original Drawing Into His Signature

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #419: George MacDonald Signed First U.S. Edition of His Masterpiece, ''At the Back of the North Wind'' -- Inscribed to His Aunt, ''for her children''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #422: Margaret Mitchell Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With The Wind''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $6,050

• Lot #423: Nobel Laureate Eugene O'Neill Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #424: Alexander Pope Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I really think it worth no man's while to do any great or good action for any other motive than the inward satisfaction of his own conscience...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #425: Beatrix Potter Signed 1902 First Edition, First Impression of ''The Tailor of Gloucester'' -- Very Rare

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #426: Ayn Rand Signed First Edition of ''The Fountainhead''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: $2,000

• Lot #427: Curious George First Edition, Signed by H.A. Rey with Original Ink Drawing -- ''Curious George Rides a Bike'' From 1952

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: $2,000

• Lot #428: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #429: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed From 1970 -- ''...the mind having all the strings and padlocks it has...''

  

  Min Bid: $4,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #430: George Bernard Shaw Signed First Edition of His ''Magnum Opus'', ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #432: John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' -- Inscribed to the Famous Mexican Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez, -- ''...in hope that we will have more grapes than wrath...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #433: John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''Travels With Charley'' -- From the Helen Hayes Estate

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #434: First Edition, First Printing of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Treasure Island'' in Near Fine Condition -- With Check Signed by Stevenson to His Stepson & Co-Author S. Lloyd Osbourne

  

  Min Bid: $6,720

  Final Price: $8,400

• Lot #436: Walt Whitman Large Signed Photo Measuring 6.25'' x 8.5'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass