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November 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, November 8th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 11/8/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #28: J.M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There will be nothing doing on Friday evening in Peter Pan except odds & ends...''

  

  Min Bid: $375

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: Andre Breton Autograph Letter Signed on The Surrealist Revolution Letterhead -- ''...newspapers concerning a Mr. Breton, politician, a Mr. Le Breton, professor, and even Bretons dead in the war...''

  

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: $1,125

• Lot #30: Lewis Carroll Autograph Poem Signed in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' -- Carroll Cleverly Composes an Acrostic Poem Where the First Letter of Each Line Reveals a Message

  

  Min Bid: $22,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Charles Dodgson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...I have much pleasure sending a presentation copy of 'Alice' for your daughter...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain Autograph Note Signed From 1885, the Year of ''Huckleberry Finn'' -- Clemens Ends the Note Humorously, Referring to Himself as ''Known to the police''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #35: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter & Signed Envelope, Documenting the Legendary Marlin That Inspired ''The Old Man and the Sea'' -- ''...landed Blue Marlin which weighed 500 lbs...sharks hit him...''

  

  Min Bid: $28,000

  Final Price: $28,000

• Lot #39: Francis Scott Key Signed Legal Petition From 1803 Defending ''Negro Tom'', Who Was Being Tortured by His Slaveowner -- Petition Written Entirely in Key's Hand

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $1,773

• Lot #40: Stephen King Signed Limited Edition of ''Christine'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1909 While Writing ''In Search of Lost Time'' -- ''...the novel that I have finally begun so tires out my wrist that I no longer write letters...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: $4,688

• Lot #42: Mario Puzo Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Godfather'' Author Asks His Literary Agent for Comments on a Script

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed -- Salinger Recommends ''Bonnie B. Good'' for a Teaching Position

  

  Min Bid: $3,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Sir Walter Scott Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding the Building of His Home Abbotsford -- ''...We will need at the entrance of the Avenue a small lodge...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $250

• Lot #45: Dr. Seuss Clever Drawing of ''The Cat in the Hat''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $2,436

• Lot #46: Shel Silverstein Signed Copy of ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' -- A Very Rare Title Signed by Silverstein

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Shel Silverstein Signed First Edition of ''A Light in the Attic'', With Elaborate Hand-Drawn Sketch

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Eloquent Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bound Within ''An Inland Voyage'' First Edition -- ''I should be strangely made if I were indifferent to the praise of my fellow writers''

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $2,856

• Lot #49: Defiant Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, Boldly Proclaiming ''...I am not going to be either the Fitzgerald or the Hemingway of this generation...I am going to be the Thompson of this generation...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: Fantastic Early Autograph Letter Signed From 17 Year Old Hunter S. Thompson About His Burgeoning Identity, the Nature of Friendship and His Trouble with the FBI

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1962 With Soul-Baring Content -- Thompson's at ''his wits end'' with ''...confusion all around. My lowest ebb...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass