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January 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, January 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 1/30/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: ''The Fables of Aesop'' 1668 Second Edition, With Over 80 Engraved Plates Illustrating the Fables -- Large Folio Measures 11'' x 16.5''

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: $2,250

• Lot #2: L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' First Edition, Second State

  

  Min Bid: $3,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #3: Charles Bukowski Original Artwork From ''The Day It Snowed in L.A.'' -- One of Only 11 Copies of the Limited Edition Signed by Bukowski & Containing His Hand-Drawn Illustration From the Book

  

  Min Bid: $3,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Suicide Attempt of Dorothy Parker -- ''...How's Dotty? What are you guys doing driving the poor little woman almost to suicide...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Three Times, Including as ''Hemingstein'', Announcing the Birth of His Son -- ''...This makes three boys - a matador - a banderellero and a sword handler...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #16: James Joyce ''Ulysses'' First English Edition From 1922 -- #389 of 2,000 Copies in the Limited Edition

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1917 -- ''...it is lovely that these well-deserved successes add their noble radiance to your mourning...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Number 1,780 in a Special 10th Anniversary Edition Limited to 2,000, With Rare Slipcase

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,650

• Lot #27: J.K. Rowling Signed First U.S. Edition of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' -- Signature Certified by Beckett

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: J.K. Rowling Signed Screenplay for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' -- With Beckett COA

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: Original ''Wild Things'' Drawing by Maurice Sendak -- Included With a Signed Limited 25th Anniversary Edition of ''Where the Wild Things Are'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Nobel Prize Recipient Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photo

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #44: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''Zapata'' That Reads Like a Short Story: ''...I might have a go at the bible...Faith in what?...In god, Grapefruit or the Final Orgasm with the Queen of the Jews...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip From 1970 -- Featuring Franklin & Peppermint Patty

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Pablo Picasso Autograph -- Within an Autograph Book Owned by Film Director Harry Lachman, Featuring Dozens of Signatures by His Friends, Including Sergei Diaghilev & Angel Zarraga

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Dr. Seuss Large Artwork From 1955 -- Featuring an Early Grinch Prototype Two Years Before His Famous Character Debuted in ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!''

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Movie Poster for the Andy Warhol Film ''My Hustler'' -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: First Edition of ''America, Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World'' From 1671 by John Ogilby -- A Superior Copy With Nearly All 58 Plates & Maps Present

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: William Bligh 1792 First Edition of ''A Voyage to the South Sea'' -- The Thrilling Account of Bligh's 1789 Command of the HMS Bounty, Resulting in the Famous ''Mutiny on the Bounty''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,500

• Lot #106: Computer Space Document Signed by Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White & Roger Chaffee -- Also by James McDivitt

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #112: Three Pieces of the Apollo 16 Thermal Coating, Taken From the Command Module That Orbited the Moon & Carried the Astronauts Back to Earth

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #117: Neil Armstrong Signed Lithograph, Also Signed by 8 Other NASA Astronauts Including Alan Shepard & John Glenn -- With a COA From the National Museum of Naval Aviation

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,375

• Lot #123: Challenger Space Shuttle Crew Signatures Acquired the Day Before the Disaster -- Complete Set of Signatures of the Crew, Plus the Surviving Back-up Crew Member Barbara Morgan

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: $3,750

• Lot #138: Charles Darwin 8pp. Autograph Letter Signed With Evolution Related Content -- ''...I was particularly glad to hear you and your brother's statement about the 'gay' deceiver-pigeons...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed Regarding His United Field Theory: ''...I have been brooding and calculating almost all of my days and half of the nights...'Unified Field Theory'...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #142: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed ''A. Einstein'' With His Handwritten Equations -- ''...the theory...really does constitute immense progress...as an appendix of my little book on...

  

  Min Bid: $19,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #156: Orville Wright Letter Signed Regarding ''...placing the Kitty Hawk machine in a museum...I would much rather have had it in...[The Smithsonian]...and Dayton as suitable a place as Kitty Hawk...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #157: Outstanding Orville Wright Letter Signed -- ''...human flight was generally looked upon as an impossibility, and that scarcely any one believed in it until he actually saw it with his own eyes...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $7,500

• Lot #159: John Adams 4-Language Ship's Papers Signed as President During the French-American Naval Quasi-War

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #160: John Adams Military Document Signed as President, Appointing a Midshipman to the Navy in 1799 During the French-American Quasi-War

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000

• Lot #161: John Adams Free Franked Signature -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,513

• Lot #171: Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed During the Civil War -- Grant Writes to General Terry During the Siege of Petersburg in 1864, ''...keep your Cavalry to watch the movements of the enemy...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #174: Thomas Jefferson Land Grant Signed as President -- Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #175: Lyndon B. Johnson Owned Silver Tiffany Cigarette Box With Presidential Seal -- Used by LBJ as President

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #185: Abraham Lincoln Military Appointment Signed as President -- With Bold ''Abraham Lincoln'' Signature, Lincoln Promotes a Cavalry Soldier to Second Lieutenant

  

  Min Bid: $4,200

  Final Price: $5,250

• Lot #226: Outstanding Martin Luther King, Jr. Handwritten Signed Quote: ''Love is the greatest force in the universe...He who loves is a participant in the being of God'' -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $10,000

• Lot #227: Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Biography, ''What Manner of Man'' -- Without Inscription, King Signs ''Best Wishes / Martin Luther King Jr.''

  

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: $1,925

• Lot #260: Oskar and Emilie Schindler Archive Concerning Their Move to Argentina After World War II -- Including Oskar's Boarding Document to Leave Europe

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #269: Chris Brown Worn Jacket to the 2013 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #270: Early Johnny Cash Concert Poster From 1961

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #271: Fantastic, Large Johnny Cash Poster From 1970 -- Measures 22'' x 28''

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #274: Bob Dylan Signed, Handwritten Lyrics to ''Like a Rolling Stone'', The Quintessential Rock Song -- With Jeff Rosen COA

  

  Min Bid: $60,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #276: Bob Dylan Signed Album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' -- With PSA, Roger Epperson & Jeff Rosen COAs

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #281: Costume Worn by Lady Gaga During the Launch of Her Makeup Line

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #290: Selena Twice-Signed ''Preciosa'' Album -- Signed ''Selena'' on the Front & ''Selena Quintanilla'' on Back -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: $1,125

• Lot #293: Rare Letter Signed by Pianist Glenn Gould

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #324: Archive Regarding the Use of the Word ''Damn'' in ''Gone With the Wind'' -- Includes Letter From David O. Selznick to Will Hays, Architect of the Hays Code, & Also Memo From Selznick Entitled ''DAMN''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #341: Moe Howard Owned Poster Advertising The Three Stooges' Famous June 1939 Show at the Blackpool Palace in England -- Larger Size Measures 24.75'' x 39.75''

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #348: Iconic Captain Kangaroo Screen-Worn Red Jacket From 1974

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #353: Burgess Meredith Tony Award -- Rare Special Tony Award From 1960 for Directing ''A Thurber Carnival''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #354: MGM Glass Lion Title Plate -- Framed Display with Light-Up Power Supply -- Beautiful Vestige From the Golden Age of Hollywood

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #385: Johnny Carson Lot of Signed Memorabilia From 1953 -- Includes 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo, Two Autograph Letters Signed, Two Typed Letters Signed & a Ticket to Carson's Show ''Carson's Cellar''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #386: Charlie Chaplin Signed Bank Card

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: $481

• Lot #390: David O. Selznick Agreement Signed to Produce ''Gone With the Wind'' & Confirming Clark Gable Will Play Rhett Butler

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #391: Leslie Howard Agreement Signed Regarding ''the role of ASHLEY in our photoplay entitled GONE WITH THE WIND''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #396: Moe Howard's Handwritten Signed Description of ''Our Regular Vaudeville Act'', Recounting Early Howard, Fine & Howard Theatrical Shows -- Done in Preparation for The Three Stooges 1953 Las Vegas Show

  

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #405: Gorgeous Marilyn Monroe Signed Photo Measuring 8.25'' x 10''

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: $10,000

• Lot #406: Marilyn Monroe Photographer's Release From 1946, Signed ''Norma Jeane Dougherty''

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #420: Lou Gehrig Signature -- Uninscribed

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #425: Muhammad Ali Signed Boxing Bag Glove From 1964 as Cassius Clay -- Also Signed by Sonny Liston -- With COA From Craig R. Hamilton

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #431: Lot of 10 Hockey Tickets for the 1980 Olympics, Including the US vs. USSR ''Miracle on Ice'' Game -- Also Includes Opening & Closing Ceremonies & Gold Medal Award Ceremony for US Hockey -- PSA Slabbed

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #436: The Burger Supreme Court Signed 21'' x 15.25'' Photo Showing the Justices in an Informal Pose -- Signed by All Nine Justices, From 1977

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass