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

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

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Lot #3: Declaration Signer George Clymer Autograph Letter Signed Regarding a Slave Exchange -- ''...Captain Litle proposed...to exchange his black girl registered in Penn'a for Judy...'' -- 1768

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #4: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #8: Benjamin Franklin 1785 Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania -- Excellent, Bold Signature

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #12: John Hancock Signs a Document in 1793, The Last Year of His Life -- for a Bounty on Hemp

# Bids: 19

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $5,407
Lot #25: With Corwallis' Surrender 2 Months Away, Lafayette Worries That the Enemy Will Attack & Promises ''...every means for the defence of Fredericksburg till I can throw in my assistance...''

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $13,045
Lot #31: Thomas Mifflin Tries to Have Philadelphia Become the Permanent Federal City by Financing a Presidential Mansion in 1792 -- Washington Declined as He Was a Strong Advocate of Washington, D.C.

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #33: Declaration of Independence Signer John Morton Signed Document -- Dated 29 June 1776, Five Days Before Morton Would Sign the Declaration

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $2,520
Lot #35: Thomas Nelson Signed Letter on Benedict Arnold's Whereabouts at the Beginning of the Virginia Campaign That Would Lead to Yorktown -- ''...Yesterday the enemy's fleet passed Burwell's Ferry...''

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $10,541
Lot #36: Rare Declaration Signer & Virginia Gov. Thomas Nelson Autograph Letter Signed One and a Half Months Before the Yorktown Surrender -- ''...I think the game is nearly up with Cornwallis...'' -- 1781

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $23,116
Lot #55: Calvin Coolidge Signed 1923 ''State of the Union'' Address -- Coolidge Speaks of Prohibition, ''The Negro'' & Other National Issues

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $1,220
Lot #57: ''Chicago Daily Tribune'' 3 November 1948 -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Infamous Headline

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,420
Lot #69: Rare Benjamin Harrison Signed Cabinet Card

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,691
Lot #93: John F. Kennedy 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo as U.S. Senator -- Year Before He Was Elected President -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,691
Lot #99: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- 12 March 1863

# Bids: 19

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $5,948
Lot #100: Abraham Lincoln 1865 Endorsement Signed -- President Pardons Confederate Loyalist Under Terms of 1863 Amnesty

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #101: 1860 Check Written and Signed by Abraham Lincoln -- In the Midst of His Campaign for President

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $5,948
Lot #103: Abraham Lincoln War-Dated Endorsement Signed on 6 May 1864 on the Back of a Full Letter -- While the Battle of the Wilderness Raged in Virginia

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #108: Rare William McKinley Autograph Letter Signed as President -- Written on Behalf of His Wife, Ida, Who Was Ill at the Time

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #109: Official Telegram Declaring President William McKinley's State of Health Two Days After He Was Shot -- ''The President Has Passed a Fairly Good Night''

# Bids: 15

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #111: William McKinley Signed 12'' x 19'' Photo

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $880
Lot #126: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Signed Photo -- 8 December 1987 Signing of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $4,915
Lot #128: Rehnquist Supreme Court Signed Photo -- All Nine Justices Sign Including William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor & Thurgood Marshall -- 19.25'' x 16.25''

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #130: Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Presentation Copy of His First Book, ''Looking Forward'' -- Given to His Executive Staff at His First White House Christmas Party

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,420
Lot #135: Large 19.5'' x 12.5'' Signed Photo of Nine 1904 Fuller Supreme Court Justices -- With Signatures Including Melville Fuller & Henry Billings Brown

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #136: William Taft Supreme Court Signed Photo -- Signed by All Nine Justices -- 9.5'' x 9''

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #140: William Taft Letter Signed on Prohibition -- ''...I oppose...prohibition, but now I am in favor of...its enforcement...'' -- With Hand Corrections by Taft Directly Referring to the 18th Amendment

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,172
Lot #145: Zachary Taylor 1849 Treasury Appointment Signed as President -- Third Rarest Presidential Signature

# Bids: 18

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,355
Lot #149: Impressive Signed Photo of President Harry Truman and His Cabinet -- 11.5'' x 11.5''

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #154: Declining to Forgo Retirement to Heal Divisiveness on Slavery, Martin Van Buren Writes in 1855: ''I regret...the present inauspicious condition of the country, upon the slave subject.''

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #164: Renzo Colombo Bronze Bust of Napoleon -- 1885

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $2,772
Lot #166: Princess Diana 1992 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...as always lots of love & endless thanks for caring...''

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,420
Lot #168: Queen Mother Elizabeth Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am so delighted...the rooms upstairs look...perfect. The blue in the visitors' bedroom is a great success, and the bathroom a dream...''

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #172: Ferdinand and Isabella Grant Permission to Redevelop Moorish City

# Bids: 14

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $6,544
Lot #193: Queen Victoria Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...how very happy I consider myself to count the Princess as my true dear friend...'' -- 1851

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $799
Lot #200: Extremely Scarce Mathew Brady Autograph Letter Signed With Photographic Content and Praising His Own Work as ''Genius''

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #203: The Civil War Begins Here in the Pages of ''Harper's Weekly''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $600
Lot #208: Signed Robert E. Lee CDV -- With Brady Backstamp

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #209: Confederate General James Longstreet War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $1,220
Lot #215: General William Sherman Writes a Civil War Dated February 1865 Surprisingly Racist Letter, Well After the Emancipation Proclamation, That He Is Opposed ''to the policy of arming negroes...''

# Bids: 15

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $9,582
Lot #216: General William Sherman Civil War Document Signed -- Framed With Engraving of Sherman

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #218: Charles Sumner 1863 Autograph Letter Signed as Senator -- Regarding Slavery & a Detailed Critique of the Confiscation Act -- ''...No expression of harshness to the slavemongers...''

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #233: Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Limited Edition of His Memoir ''Crusade in Europe'' -- With Autographed D-Day Speech

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #237: Dwight Eisenhower WWII Letter Signed on Battle of the Bulge -- ''...the German, in typical fashion, gambled...to get back the initiative on this front. He lost -- just as he was sure to lose...''

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,355
Lot #243: True First Edition, First Printing of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #247: WWII German General Franz Halder Typed Letter Signed -- ''...Hitler wanted the war, because in his imagination there was no other means to achieve his political goals...''

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $468
Lot #280: George S. Patton, Jr. WWII-Dated Letter Signed -- ''...Thanks very much for your nice letter of congratulations which I deeply appreciate...'' -- 1941

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #289: Erwin Rommel 1939 WWII-Dated Postcard With Autograph Note Signed -- ''Heil Hitler...E. Rommel''

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $1,109
Lot #308: Photo of Mount Rushmore Under Construction Signed by Its Sculptor Gutzon Borglum -- Rare

# Bids: 15

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $1,220
Lot #316: Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' Original Cel -- Beautiful, Near Fine Condition

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $7,199
Lot #317: Walt Disney Original ''Pinocchio'' Cel -- Intricate Artwork of Jiminy Cricket

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #318: Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' Original Cel -- Featuring the Lovable Character ''Dopey''

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $2,772
Lot #324: Thomas Kinkade Artist Proof Limited Edition Signed -- ''Cinderella Wishes Upon a Dream''

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #352: Very Scarce 1814 First Edition of ''History of the Expedition'' Lewis and Clark Account -- With Five Engraved Maps -- First Edition Account of Landmark Expedition

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $6,544
Lot #357: Robert Falcon Scott Typed Letter Signed on 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910' Stationery Asking New Zealand to Overturn Its Refusal to Allow James Mackintosh-Bell From Joining Expedition

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #361: ''Through The Dark Continent'' Inscribed by Henry M. Stanley in the Year of Publication

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #362: Marie Curie Document Signed on ''Institut Du Radium'' Card -- Scarce

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #365: Very Scarce Signature by Famed Scientist Edward Jenner, the ''Father of Immunology''

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #375: U.S. Flag Flown Aboard Apollo 7 -- Signed by Astronaut Walter Cunningham

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $1,789
Lot #378: Exceptionally Scarce Apollo 11 Flag Flown to the Moon -- the Finest Lunar Flag One Could Hope to Own

# Bids: 9

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $21,013
Lot #379: Apollo 11 Crew-Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo -- Neil Armstrong: ''Thanks for helping us get ready to go'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $2,772
Lot #401: Italian Opera Star Enrico Caruso Self Sketch Signed

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $832
Lot #407: Russian Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Give me sweetheart forty rubles as a loan...''

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #420: Rare Early Janis Joplin Letter to Her Boyfriend -- ''...I guess having depressingly first hand knowledge of social problems helps...'' -- 1965

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #431: ''We Shall Overcome'' First Edition Portfolio From the ''March on Washington'' -- Scarce Complete Portfolio of Five Collages Issued by the National Urban League as a Memento for Marchers

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #432: Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Copy of His Nobel Peace Prize Program -- The First We Have Seen With No Auction Records of Any Previously and Possibly the Only One Extant

# Bids: 27

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $14,032
Lot #434: Nelson Mandela Signed Autobiography

# Bids: 14

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,355
Lot #439: Exceptionally Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Mother Teresa -- Humanitarian Requests Prayers for Upcoming 1971 Indian Elections -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #453: Roald Dahl Signed ''James and the Giant Peach'' -- Scarce

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

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...''

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $5,407
Lot #475: First Edition of ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' Inscribed to Hemingway's Cuban Doctor

# Bids: 12

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''

# Bids: 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''

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,049
Lot #490: Rudyard Kipling Signed Limited Edition Set of His Complete Works -- Extremely Rare in Original, Cream-Colored Dustjackets

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $3,049
Lot #492: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' Advance Reading Copy -- One of Less Than 500 Printed, With Few Still Extant

# Bids: 10

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $8,098
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!...''

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $5,948
Lot #503: ''The Christopher Robin Story Book'' Signed by Winnie the Pooh Author A.A. Milne & Illustrator Ernest Shepard

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,066
Lot #504: Signed Limited Edition of A.A. Milne's Masterpiece ''The House at Pooh Corner''

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #505: Scarce First Printing of ''Winnie the Pooh'' by A.A. Milne -- 1926 With Ultra Rare Original Dustjacket

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 4

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

# Bids: 19

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $21,013
Lot #539: Very Special ''Where the Wild Things Are'' -- Maurice Sendak Signs and Sketches a Wild Thing

# Bids: 4

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...''

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #563: Rare First Edition of John Steinbeck's First Book, ''Cup of Gold''

# Bids: 12

Min Bid: $100

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

# Bids: 7

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...''

# Bids: 6

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''

# Bids: 11

Min Bid: $500

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

# Bids: 6

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $1,420
Lot #576: Scarce Signed Photo of Pioneering Poet, Walt Whitman -- Bold Signature

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #580: Vintage, Circa 1930's Tablet Academy Award -- ''Lost'' Academy Award Exchanged for the ''Oscar'' Statuette

# Bids: 16

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $16,980
Lot #581: Oscar Statue Awarded to Ernst Fegte for Best Art Direction of 1944's "Frenchman's Creek"

# Bids: 22

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $106,231
Lot #582: Oscar Statue Awarded to MGM for the 1943 Film "Heavenly Music"

# Bids: 18

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $106,231
Lot #599: Johnny Carson Five-Piece Drum Set Cases -- Personally Owned by Carson -- With Address Labels from NBC in New York Affixed to Carson at his Address in Las Vegas

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #600: WITHDRAWN

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: W/D

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