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September 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, September 27th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/27/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #2: 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: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Under Deadline for ''Oliver Twist'': ''...I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: $12,500

• Lot #20: Incredible Hunter S. Thompson Archive of 182 Letters -- "…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: $110,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: First Edition Set of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' -- A Complete Second Impression Set in Their Original Dust Jackets, With Maps Present

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: Bill Wilson Signed Copy of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book -- ''...of your devotion to AA's Grapevine...Bill''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Richard Strauss Signed, Handwritten Musical Manuscript for the Final Scene in His Opera, ''Die schweigsame Frau''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Beatles Signed Photo From 1962 With Pete Best as Drummer -- Signed by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Best -- PSA Slabbed

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: $8,750

• Lot #49: Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I will not deprive myself of the pleasure of coming to see your Cezanne exhibition...''

  

  Min Bid: $3,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Andy Warhol Signed Iconic Campbell's Soup Label

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Charles Darwin Letter Signed -- ''...take proper steps to keep me out of any legal difficulties...''

  

  Min Bid: $5,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed on God & Unified Field Theory, With Mathematical Equations in His Hand Regarding the Theory -- ''...It is devilishly difficult to get closer to 'Him'...''

  

  Min Bid: $50,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: 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: $50,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1918, Predicting His Nobel Prize Years Before Winning It

  

  Min Bid: $32,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed in 1932 on the Economy & His Nobel: ''...I am neither socialist nor communist...unskilled workers - will be brought down to an ignoble subsistence level...''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed From 1921, Regarding Anti-Semitism in Germany -- ''...I am supposed to go to Munich, but I will not do that, because this would endanger my life right now...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Rare Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed on His Jewish Roots & Psychoanalysis -- ''...the Freud family is said to sometime have left their hometown of Köln during a period of persecution of Jews..."

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #71: Scarce David Hume Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one of the most celebrated Booksellers of Paris...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: Gorgeous & Important Botanical Book From 1727, ''Phytographia curiosa'' by Abraham Munting -- With 245 Engraved Folio Plates

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: Apollo 12 Flown United States Flag, One of the Largest Apollo Flown Flags at 18'' x 11.5'' -- From the Collection of Richard Gordon Who States That the Flag Landed on the Lunar Surface

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: $15,000

• Lot #82: Bible Flown to & Landed Upon the Moon During the Apollo 14 Mission -- One of Only 11 Copies With Official Certification by Both Astronaut Edgar Mitchell & Apollo Prayer League Director Rev. John Stout

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: John Adams Signed Copy of ''A Discourse'' -- The Powerful Pro-American Independence Book Called ''The Morning Gun of the Revolution''

  

  Min Bid: $40,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: John Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Stamp Act -- Adams Gives Documents and ''broken hints'' to Jedidiah Morse for ''Annals of the American Revolution'', on Events ''Five and Forty years ago''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: 1860 Campaign Portrait Flag Banner for Stephen Douglas -- One of Less Than 10 Known Examples

  

  Min Bid: $14,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #105: John F. Kennedy Signed Book as President -- JFK Inscribes ''To Turn the Tide'' to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt ''...who helped turn an earlier tide...'' -- With Slide Photo of JFK Signing

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #109: Cecil W. Stoughton's Personal, Unpublished Photo of LBJ's Inauguration Aboard Air Force One -- LBJ Takes the Oath of Office as Jackie Stands Witness

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Superb Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President, Regarding Possible War Profiteering During the Civil War -- ''...I expected that when...the price of a...gun was fixed, it would stand...''

  

  Min Bid: $32,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #117: Fantastic Presidential Photo Signed by Five Presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford -- With University Archives COA

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #128: William Taft Letter Signed as President, About the Supreme Court -- ''...I can not appoint anybody because he is a Jew; and I certainly shall not decline to appoint anybody because he is a Jew...''

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #130: William Taft Letter Signed, With Additional Autograph Note Signed, Regarding His Appointment to the Supreme Court -- ''...This discussion as to Wilson's appointing me to the Bench only amuses me...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #132: Rare Harry Truman WWII Victory Proclamation Signed as President -- Gifted to White House Staff in 1945 -- Near Fine Condition

  

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #141: Large Map of Boston Harbor From 1775 by DesBarres -- An Important Map From Colonial History Showing Boston at the Start of the Revolutionary War

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: Very Rare Thomas Paine Autograph Letter Signed, to Fellow Revolutionary Ira Allen

  

  Min Bid: $16,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #149: Rare George A. Custer Autograph Letter Signed as Lt. Colonel of the 7th Cavalry -- ''...some of the company officers appear on parade wearing 'government pants!'...''

  

  Min Bid: $6,500

  Final Price: $8,125

• Lot #151: Robert E. Lee Signed CDV Photo -- In Military Uniform With Three Confederate Stars on His Lapel

  

  Min Bid: $4,500

  Final Price: $5,625

• Lot #156: Unpublished Draft From Winston Churchill's Memoir, ''The Second World War'' -- Churchill Recounts an Entertaining Story From the Quebec Conference Regarding Mountbatten Shooting at a Block of Pykrete

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: Important Book From 1753 on Jewish Anti-Semitism in England -- ''Further Considerations on the Act to Permit Persons Professing the Jewish Religion to be Naturalized by Parliament''

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #165: Very Personal Letter Signed by Malcolm X, With Additional Autograph Note, to His Wife Betty Just After They Married -- ''...I was very happy to hear that you are going to be a Mother...''

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #166: Elijah Muhammad Document Signed From 1958

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #168: 52 Photographs of the Wounded Knee Massacre and Its Aftermath -- The Most Comprehensive Photo Album of the Massacre With Many Unpublished Photos

  

  Min Bid: $27,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #170: Disney Original Concept Painting From 1946 for ''Song of the South'' by Mary Blair -- Measures 13.5'' x 11''

  

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #176: Audrey Hepburn's Personally Owned Blouse From ''My Fair Lady''

  

  Min Bid: $25,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #177: Large 11'' x 14'' Paramount Studio Portrait of Audrey Hepburn From ''Funny Face'' -- From Audrey's Personal Collection

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Elvis Presley's Personally Owned Guitar, Likely Screen-Used in ''Girls, Girls, Girls''

  

  Min Bid: $32,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #188: Screen-Used Ralph McQuarrie Original Model of Star Trek's USS Enterprise From 1976

  

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #196: Walt Disney Signed Copy of ''Ave Maria'' From ''Fantasia''

  

  Min Bid: $1,750

  Final Price: $4,266

• Lot #200: Vivien Leigh Signed Photo as Scarlett O'Hara in ''Gone With the Wind'' -- Photo Measures 7.75'' x 9.5''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: $2,500

• Lot #202: Fred Rogers of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' Lot of 17 Autograph Letters Signed -- With Many on Stationery From the Show

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #208: Star Wars Cast-Signed Darth Vader Helmet -- Signed by All Stars of ''Star Wars'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Including Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill

  

  Min Bid: $6,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #216: John D. Rockefeller Signed Stock Certificate for Standard Oil Trust -- Signed by Rockefeller as President in 1883

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #218: William Bligh Document Signed From 1798 for His Ship, the HMS Director -- Like the HMS Bounty, the HMS Director Also Mutinied Under Bligh's Command

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass