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• Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Oil Painting by Raymond Bayless -- The Famous Martian Tripod vs. HMS Thunder Child Battle Scene From H.G. Wells' ''War of the Worlds''

  Price: $15,000

  
• Ray Bradbury Personally Owned Watercolor Painting by American Artist Jake Lee

  Price: $10,000

  
• John Steinbeck Signed Copy of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' -- Inscribed to the Famous Mexican Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez, -- ''...in hope that we will have more grapes than wrath...''

  Price: $7,500

  
• Beatrix Potter Autograph Letter Signed -- "…It is rather a shame to kill them so young; one has no sentimental feeling about a large bacon pig. I have made drawings of it and a plaster model…"

  Price: $4,500

  
• Beatrix Potter Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding the Ill Health of Her Father -- "…He is too old for any operation - 81 - and it is thought kindest to let him alone…"

  Price: $4,500

  
• Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1910 While Writing ''In Search of Lost Time'' -- ''...their coarseness giving a pretext for a refusal, always the formalists' preference...''

  Price: $4,000

  
• Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed, Circa 1911, Giving Generous Praise to a Fellow Writer -- ''...how lovely this is! It constantly makes you laugh, sometimes cry...''

  Price: $4,000

  
• Noel Coward Handwritten & Signed Poem -- Composed in 1933 for Helen Hayes' Daughter -- ''...The talented and witty man / Who wrote these charming lines! / Noel Coward...''

  Price: $3,000

  
• Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed -- ''...The arrival of your volume Critical Essays on Catch-22 this weekend delighted me...''

  Price: $3,000

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Shortly After John F. Kennedy Was Elected -- Thompson Writes of JFK's Win, ''we got the touchdown - where do we go from here?''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Autograph Note -- ''...bought a huge Doberman name of Agar for $100...Also a pistol for $70 & now I can't pay the rent...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter From Big Sur -- ''...First big money will go for acres. Land is wealth...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Typed Story Featuring His ''Claude Fink'' Protagonist -- Also With an Autograph Letter Signed, ''...It appears I am once again headed for fatherhood...a bad joke IS funny once...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Funny Content -- ''...C-J wants a story on...'off-beat spots in SF.' These should make me sick enough to become a legitimate ward of the state...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed With Autograph Note From 1960 in Bug Sur -- ''...I presume that, by 'human garbage,' he means that segment of the un-washed masses prone to art, writing...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Twice-Signed ''HST'' From San Juan in 1960 -- ''...This is not a Tahiti ethos, but Cincinnati with a Caribbean twist...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'', One of His First From South America in 1960 -- ''...Once I get a beach house and a scooter, heaven will be within my grasp...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'' in Bold Red Ink -- ''...my mother keeps asking me when I'm going to finish the book...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Letter Signed From Big Sur in 1960 -- ''...Incredible sunset outside...Perhaps this is the omen we were waiting for...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Playful Hunter S. Thompson 1961 Postcard From Big Sur Proclaiming, ''God only Knows"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Autograph Letter -- "…arm yourself - the dialogue is over - Johnson is brought to bay…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- "…the people you want to 'expose' don't give a fuck about anything except making money. They are beyond shame & without conscience…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- "…the contract I just signed: $6000 guarantee against royalties for a paperback on Cycle gangs…Things are hopping…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1967 -- "…I'm in a terrible agent snarl again. I have to come there & cut all the Gordian knots…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter With Handwritten Annotation -- "…Work is holy. For this reason I have stopped looking for it…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed From 1961 -- Thompson Writes of His Girlfriend Getting an Abortion, ''...upon our return from Tiajuana, a place that all potential papas should know about...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Fantastic Big Sur Content -- ''...that thing that Mr. Gatsby had, that thing that seems now to be permanently out of stock, 'a sense of the promise of life'...''

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- "…The worst kind of dropout scene -- where the drop creates no noise, no circles in the water…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Typed Postcard From November 1960: "…long-term plans remain vague & threatening…Crotch full of infected poison oak has put me on the brink…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Twice-Signed as a Young 21-Year Old -- "…The egalitarian haste of the modern american negro will put us all in the grave: all in the same grave, of course…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Typed Postcard -- "…The Lord knows where I"m going and the Devil knows who I'll marry, but everything else is up for grabs…Great Puerto Rican novel now underway…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- "Have just been evicted…Sandy still swollen [pregnant] - The Fear is on me…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- "Rum Diary" Near Done: "…Went over the 300 pg mark tonight & hope to wrap it up at 340 or so. Another week at least, maybe two - no longer…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- "…I have turned my genius to re-creating Big Sur in the image of Playboy. If it bounces I will do the blood-dance…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed on New Year's Eve, 1961 -- "…Novel is bogged down horribly. Starting over again…" -- Thompson Also Writes of Football, His Favorite Sport

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- "…No amount or quality of Journalism can preserve that fine, high sound…maybe fiction will come closer…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed After Just Completing His Novel "The Rum Diary" -- "…The fat is finally in the fire. RD finished about 2 hours hence…We are all n******…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- "…me and [Alfred] Kazin are in there, hustling for the White Establishment…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed -- "…My ambition now is to ride the bike to the NCAA basketball finals and then load up on LSD for all four games…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Fantastic Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed From 1964, With Additional Autograph Note -- "…Personal Journalism is the Wave of the Future…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Letter Signed -- "Random thinks I'm halfway through the Rum Diary revisions…Things here are quietly terrifying. I plan to leave the state before fall. If not, I'll go to jail…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Autograph Letter -- "…arm yourself - the dialogue is over - Johnson is brought to bay…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- "…'The People' are a myth. They are their own enemies - life is a bread riot…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1967 -- "…not a penny yet from Random on the book, and a big court/contract battle is shaping up…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, With Literary Critique & Mention of the 1968 Democratic Convention -- "…As for Chicago, I plan to be there…It may be the end of the world as we know it…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- "…it seems obvious to me now that you should enter the priesthood…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Typed Postcard, With Arrow on Postcard of California Coastline -- "…Big Sur makes Colo. look like Moe Mountain…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed From Big Sur in 1960 -- "…incredible country: Colorado by the sea…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed -- "…we will shoot & drink & flatter each other…"

  Price: $2,500

  
• Hunter Thompson Letter Signed -- "…The RD [Rum Diary] is almost there. I can hardly believe it, but feel certain it will never be published. No matter. Just to finish the bastard is enough…"

  Price: $2,500