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November 2018 Auction Ends Thursday, November 8th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 11/8/2018. Final prices include buyers premium.

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Lot #19: Ludwig Bemelmans Painting for ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'' -- Gorgeous & Vivid Painting Measures 31.75'' x 19''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $30,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #20: Ludwig Bemelmans Watercolor From ''Marina'', Measuring 24'' x 16.5'' -- Featuring a Panoply of Sea Creatures

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: $2,500
Lot #28: J.M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There will be nothing doing on Friday evening in Peter Pan except odds & ends...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $375

Final Price: Pass
Lot #29: Andre Breton Autograph Letter Signed on The Surrealist Revolution Letterhead -- ''...newspapers concerning a Mr. Breton, politician, a Mr. Le Breton, professor, and even Bretons dead in the war...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $900

Final Price: $1,125
Lot #30: 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

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $22,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #31: Charles Dodgson Autograph Letter Twice-Signed -- ''...I have much pleasure sending a presentation copy of 'Alice' for your daughter...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #32: Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain Autograph Note Signed From 1885, the Year of ''Huckleberry Finn'' -- Clemens Ends the Note Humorously, Referring to Himself as ''Known to the police''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #33: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #34: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: $1,000
Lot #35: Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter & Signed Envelope, Documenting the Legendary Marlin That Inspired ''The Old Man and the Sea'' -- ''...landed Blue Marlin which weighed 500 lbs...sharks hit him...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $28,000

Final Price: $28,000
Lot #36: Ernest Hemingway's Own Bullfighting Ticket From 26 July 1959 From the ''Plaza Toros de Valencia'' -- Hemingway Wrote About The Bullfights He Attended in the Summer of '59 for ''The Dangerous Summer''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #37: Photograph of Roberto Hererra, Ernest Hemingway's Close Friend, Swimming in Hemingway's Pool at His Home in Cuba

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #38: Scarce Second Edition of Samuel Johnson's 2-Volume Masterpiece of Lexicography -- ''A Dictionary Of The English Language: In Which The Words Are Deduced From The Originals...'' -- 1755

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $6,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #39: Francis Scott Key Signed Legal Petition From 1803 Defending ''Negro Tom'', Who Was Being Tortured by His Slaveowner -- Petition Written Entirely in Key's Hand

# Bids: 8

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $1,773
Lot #40: Stephen King Signed Limited Edition of ''Christine'' -- Near Fine Condition

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #41: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed From 1909 While Writing ''In Search of Lost Time'' -- ''...the novel that I have finally begun so tires out my wrist that I no longer write letters...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $3,750

Final Price: $4,688
Lot #42: Mario Puzo Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Godfather'' Author Asks His Literary Agent for Comments on a Script

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #43: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed -- Salinger Recommends ''Bonnie B. Good'' for a Teaching Position

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #44: Sir Walter Scott Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding the Building of His Home Abbotsford -- ''...We will need at the entrance of the Avenue a small lodge...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $250
Lot #45: Dr. Seuss Clever Drawing of ''The Cat in the Hat''

# Bids: 7

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: $2,436
Lot #46: Shel Silverstein Signed Copy of ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' -- A Very Rare Title Signed by Silverstein

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #47: Shel Silverstein Signed First Edition of ''A Light in the Attic'', With Elaborate Hand-Drawn Sketch

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #48: Eloquent Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bound Within ''An Inland Voyage'' First Edition -- ''I should be strangely made if I were indifferent to the praise of my fellow writers''

# Bids: 13

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $2,856
Lot #49: Defiant Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed, Boldly Proclaiming ''...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...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $6,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #50: Fantastic Early Autograph Letter Signed From 17 Year Old Hunter S. Thompson About His Burgeoning Identity, the Nature of Friendship and His Trouble with the FBI

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $5,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #51: Hunter S. Thompson Autograph Letter Signed From 1962 With Soul-Baring Content -- Thompson's at ''his wits end'' with ''...confusion all around. My lowest ebb...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,500

Final Price: Pass

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