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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 #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 #160: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin Signed 3.5'' x 5'' Glossy Photo -- ''M. Begin'' -- 1978 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient -- Near Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $145

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

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $6,544

• Lot #202: Rare 1865 Edition of the Burials at Gettysburg Cemetery -- Also Includes Transcription of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Everett's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #227: Letter Written at Concentration Camp at Dachau -- 1940

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $238

• Lot #254: Early Edition of Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  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 #435: Pope Benedict XV Signed Benediction -- to Pennsylvania Governor William Sproul

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #437: Teletype on James Earl Ray's Capture and FBI Press Release Photocopy -- ''...He was arrested 7:15 A.M. EDT in London...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $317

• Lot #438: Harriet Beecher Stowe Manuscript Poem Signed -- ''...Not a shadow on thy brow / Not a sorrow in thy heart...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• 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 #441: Mother Teresa Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo -- PSA/DNA COA

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass