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March 2019 Auction Ends Thursday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific

• Lot #52: Hans Christian Andersen Autograph Quote Signed Regarding Retirement -- ''The first moment of retirement is the nosegay of the entire journey''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #53: Truman Capote's True Crime Masterpiece ''In Cold Blood'' First Edition, First Printing Signed Tipped-In Page

  

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  Min Bid: $500

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• Lot #54: Very Personal Samuel Clemens Autograph Letter Signed, to His Wife Regarding the Near-Death of Their Daughter Jean -- ''...It still makes me shudder...''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

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• Lot #55: James Fenimore Cooper Autograph Letter Signed

  

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  Min Bid: $350

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• Lot #56: Alfred de Vigny Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...There comes to me a young actor...the Prodigal Son...''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #57: August Derleth ''Dark Mind, Dark Heart'' First Edition Signed -- One of Only 2,493 First Edition Copies

  

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  Min Bid: $275

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #58: Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed, Under Deadline for ''Oliver Twist'': ''...I have had the resolution to shut myself up so strictly with Oliver Twist...''

  

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  Min Bid: $8,000

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• Lot #59: First Edition, First Printing of ''The Great Gatsby''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #60: Perry Mason Mystery Signed by Author Erle Stanley Gardner -- ''The Case of the Duplicate Daughter'' First Edition

  

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  Min Bid: $500

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #61: Allen Ginsberg Signed Poetry Book ''Planet News''

  

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  Min Bid: $250

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• Lot #62: Thomas Hardy Signed Limited Edition of His Works -- 37 Volume Mellstock Edition, Rare in Original Cloth

  

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  Min Bid: $3,000

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #63: Ernest Hemingway First Limited Edition of ''A Farewell to Arms'' -- Signed by Hemingway

  

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  Min Bid: $3,500

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• Lot #64: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I am sorry for your 'tribulations' but with your indomitable spirit you will come bravely through them...''

  

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  Min Bid: $250

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• Lot #65: Langston Hughes Twice-Signed Copy of ''An African Treasury'' -- Writings Selected by Hughes by Black Africans

  

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  Min Bid: $250

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• Lot #66: Laura Ingalls Wilder Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I miss the old days very much sometimes...''

  

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  Min Bid: $600

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• Lot #67: James Joyce Autograph Letter Signed in 1923, Shortly After the Publication of ''Ulysses'' in 1922 -- ''...I am almost going out of my mind in this impossible situation...''

  

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  Min Bid: $3,000

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• Lot #68: Stephen King Signed Copy of '''Salem's Lot'' -- ''remember: they only come out at night!''

  

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  Min Bid: $400

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• Lot #69: Stephen King Signed First Edition of ''Firestarter'' -- Signed in 1980, a Week Before Its Official Publication

  

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  Min Bid: $400

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• Lot #70: Poet Stephane Mallarme Autograph Letter Signed -- Mallarme Writes to Fellow Poet Leon Dierx

  

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  Min Bid: $1,250

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• Lot #71: Eugene O'Neill Signed Limited Edition of ''Lazarus Laughed''

  

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  Min Bid: $200

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• Lot #72: Sylvia Plath Twice-Signed Driver's License From 1958 -- Plath Also Handwrites Her Addresses, Including ''9 Willow St.''

  

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  Min Bid: $6,000

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• Lot #73: Alexander Pope Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I really think it worth no man's while to do any great or good action for any other motive than the inward satisfaction of his own conscience...''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,750

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• Lot #74: Beatrix Potter Signed First Edition, Second Issue of ''Roly-Poly Pudding''

  

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  Min Bid: $4,000

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• Lot #75: 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...''

  

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  Min Bid: $3,500

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• Lot #76: Marcel Proust Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...All I could do was, with a certain melancholy, take my novel's manuscript back from this publisher where I had previously been more pampered...''

  

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  Min Bid: $3,500

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• Lot #77: 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...''

  

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  Min Bid: $3,500

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• Lot #78: Mario Puzo Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Godfather'' Author Asks His Literary Agent for Comments on a Script

  

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  Min Bid: $200

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• Lot #79: ''Curious George'' First Edition Signed by H.A. Rey -- First Book From 1941

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

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• Lot #80: Rare Deluxe First U.K. Edition & First Printing of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

  

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  Min Bid: $500

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• Lot #81: J.D. Salinger Letter Signed From 1953, Commenting on Several of His Stories -- ''...About Seymour's suicide in 'Bananafish'...''

  

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  Min Bid: $2,800

  Current Bid: None

• Lot #82: ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Maurice Sendak -- 1963 Children's Classic in Near Fine Condition

  

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  Min Bid: $500

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• Lot #83: Dr. Seuss' ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' First Edition, First Printing With First Printing Dust Jacket

  

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  Min Bid: $600

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• Lot #84: Dr. Seuss Handwritten Postcard -- During a Trip to East Africa

  

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  Min Bid: $350

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• Lot #85: Dr. Seuss Signed First Edition, First Printing of His Adult Humor Book, ''More Boners'' in Original Dust Jacket -- Inscribed to Author-Psychoanalyst Arnold Rogow

  

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  Min Bid: $750

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• Lot #86: George Bernard Shaw Signed First Edition of His ''Magnum Opus'', ''The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,800

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• Lot #87: Shel Silverstein Signed Copy of ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' -- A Very Rare Title Signed by Silverstein

  

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  Min Bid: $1,250

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• Lot #88: Shel Silverstein Signed First Edition of ''A Light in the Attic'', With Elaborate Hand-Drawn Sketch

  

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  Min Bid: $500

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• Lot #89: 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...''

  

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  Min Bid: $2,800

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• Lot #90: John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' First Printing -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

  

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  Min Bid: $1,200

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• Lot #91: Superb Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Slavery -- ''...Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system...''

  

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  Min Bid: $18,000

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• Lot #92: Hunter Thompson Letter Signed From Big Sur in 1960 -- ''...Incredible sunset outside...Perhaps this is the omen we were waiting for...''

  

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• Lot #93: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'' From 1960, Telling His Friend to Get Out of Their Hometown of Louisville -- ''I can smell that real estate-- rotarian stench all the way down here. MOVE!''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

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• Lot #94: Hunter S. Thompson Letter Signed ''HST'' From 1960 While Living in San Juan -- ''...Lightning-quick Thompsonesque coup shatters dwelling barrier!...''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,600

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• Lot #95: Kurt Vonnegut Signed Easton Press Edition of ''Fates Worse Than Death''

  

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  Min Bid: $200

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• Lot #96: Evelyn Waugh Signed First Edition of His Heralded Biography ''The Life of Ronald Knox''

  

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  Min Bid: $1,500

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• Lot #134: Ludwig Bemelmans Watercolor From ''Marina'', Measuring 24'' x 16.5'' -- Featuring the Shark Who Swallows Marina & the Porpoises Who Save Her

  

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  Min Bid: $2,000

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• Lot #152: Garth Williams Hand-Drawing for the Cover Art of ''Emmett's Pig'' -- Signed by Williams on Verso

  

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  Min Bid: $600

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• Lot #154: Artist N.C. Wyeth Signed Limited Edition of ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' -- Wyeth Illustrated the Civil War Novel

  

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  Min Bid: $500

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