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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 #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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  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...''

  

  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.

  

  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

  

  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...''

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #57: ''Chicago Daily Tribune'' 3 November 1948 -- ''Dewey Defeats Truman'' Infamous Headline

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,420

• Lot #69: Rare Benjamin Harrison Signed Cabinet Card

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• 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 #93: John F. Kennedy 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo as U.S. Senator -- Year Before He Was Elected President -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,691

• Lot #99: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President -- 12 March 1863

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $5,948

• Lot #100: Abraham Lincoln 1865 Endorsement Signed -- President Pardons Confederate Loyalist Under Terms of 1863 Amnesty

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #111: William McKinley Signed 12'' x 19'' Photo

  

  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

  

  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''

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,172

• Lot #145: Zachary Taylor 1849 Treasury Appointment Signed as President -- Third Rarest Presidential Signature

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,355

• Lot #149: Impressive Signed Photo of President Harry Truman and His Cabinet -- 11.5'' x 11.5''

  

  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.''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #164: Renzo Colombo Bronze Bust of Napoleon -- 1885

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #166: Princess Diana 1992 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...as always lots of love & endless thanks for caring...''

  

  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...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #172: Ferdinand and Isabella Grant Permission to Redevelop Moorish City

  

  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

  

  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''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $600

• Lot #208: Signed Robert E. Lee CDV -- With Brady Backstamp

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #209: Confederate General James Longstreet War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed

  

  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...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $9,582

• Lot #216: General William Sherman Civil War Document Signed -- Framed With Engraving of Sherman

  

  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...''

  

  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

  

  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...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $3,355

• Lot #243: True First Edition, First Printing of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''

  

  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...''

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,109

• Lot #308: Photo of Mount Rushmore Under Construction Signed by Its Sculptor Gutzon Borglum -- Rare

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $1,220

• Lot #316: Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' Original Cel -- Beautiful, Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $7,199

• Lot #317: Walt Disney Original ''Pinocchio'' Cel -- Intricate Artwork of Jiminy Cricket

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #324: Thomas Kinkade Artist Proof Limited Edition Signed -- ''Cinderella Wishes Upon a Dream''

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $2,772

• Lot #401: Italian Opera Star Enrico Caruso Self Sketch Signed

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $832

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $14,032

• Lot #434: Nelson Mandela Signed Autobiography

  

  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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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...''

  

  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 #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 #492: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' Advance Reading Copy -- One of Less Than 500 Printed, With Few Still Extant

  

  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!...''

  

  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

  

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  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 #563: Rare First Edition of John Steinbeck's First Book, ''Cup of Gold''

  

  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

  

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

  

  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"

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $106,231

• Lot #582: Oscar Statue Awarded to MGM for the 1943 Film "Heavenly Music"

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #600: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D