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September 2025 Auction Ends Thursday, September 25th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 9/25/2025. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: ''Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book'' First Edition from 1827 -- Scarce & Important Book in the History of America

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #2: Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #3: Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #4: Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #5: Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #6: Original Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip from 1959 -- Beethoven Themed Strip

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $25,000

• Lot #7: Original Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip from 1960 -- Beethoven Themed Strip

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $20,000

  Final Price: $71,335

• Lot #8: Bill Watterson Signed Limited Edition Lithograph of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' from 1992 -- Pristine Condition

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $6,000

  Final Price: $9,983

• Lot #9: William Faulkner First Edition, First Printing of ''Light in August'' -- In First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $950

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #10: Dashiell Hammett First U.S. Edition, First Printing of ''The Glass Key''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $650

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #11: First Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Twice-Told Tales'' -- One of Only 1,000 Printed, in Rare Original Binding

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,680

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #12: Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed to the Air Force -- ''...[make] available to him any information about my military service that he wishes to obtain...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #13: Joseph Heller Typed Note Regarding His ''Catch-22'' Characters Yossarian & the Chaplain -- ''...Yossarian isn't Jewish and was not intended to be...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #14: Sinclair Lewis Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Babbitt''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $950

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #15: Margaret Mitchell First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With the Wind'' -- Housed in Rare First Printing Dust Jacket

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,950

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #16: Two Volume Set Published in 1708 of ''The Whole Works of F. Rabelais M.D.''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $900

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #17: John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' First Printing in First Printing Dust Jacket -- Near Fine Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #18: John Steinbeck Typed Letter -- ''...what I had suspected and did not quite trust, that I should back off and get my writing muscles strong...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #19: John Steinbeck Typed Letter -- ''...It's hell having to keep up with my own coreresponedence. [sic]...And don't forget that I owe you a lot of money...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #20: John Steinbeck Typed Letter -- ''...My work isn't any good but maybe it will be...We're going to Glastonbury to watch them dig up a thirteenth century bishop. That's fun in this country...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #21: John Steinbeck Typed Note Regarding Steinbeck Scholar Peter Lisca -- ''...he has not the slightest vestige of a sense of humor...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #22: John Steinbeck Typed Letter -- ''...I have always maintained the right to write any damn thing I feel like, not knowing what I'm going to feel like...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #23: John Steinbeck Typed Letter Requesting Landscaping for His Property

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #24: John Steinbeck Autograph Note -- ''This is a mess...What a mess is this room...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #25: Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Note Signed Regarding Arthurian Music

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #26: Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...John [Steinbeck] gave David a Knights' suit of armour, complete with a plumed helmet...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #27: Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed from England Where John Steinbeck Was Writing ''The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights'' -- ''The cottage is filled with charm & character & ghosts"

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #28: Alfred Tennyson's First Book of Poetry, ''Poems by Two Brothers'' -- First Edition from 1827

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #29: Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1962 -- ''...Writing a novel is the shittiest thing a man can undertake...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #30: Hunter S. Thompson Letter -- ''...like a beast of hell, the sun flashing on my stained teeth and my lips curled back with thirst for whiskey...Rum Diary progressing viciously...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #31: Hunter Thompson Postcard From Big Sur in 1961 -- ''...you might think it odd that I have not asked what your book 'is about'...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #32: Hunter S. Thompson Card Featuring His Favorite Jackdaw Bird

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #33: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802 Third Edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'' -- The Important Two Volume Set of Poetry that Sparked the English Romantic Movement

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,680

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #34: ''Napoleon'' by Jacques Bainville -- 1951 French-Language First Edition -- Compelling Overview by Founding Editor of the Royalist Daily ''Action Francaise''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #35: ''A Short History of the English People'' by John Richard Green --1902 -- Rare Four Volume Illustrated Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #36: Edward Gibbons Six-Volume Set of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' -- Most First Editions, Complete with Three Maps

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #37: Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1858 -- With Coverage of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, a Congressional Brawl, ''Bleeding Kansas'' and More

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #38: Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1864 -- With Civil War Coverage and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #39: Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1865 -- With Coverage of the Civil War, President Lincoln's Assassination and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #40: ''The Daily Graphic'' Illustrated Newspaper From 1873

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #41: Friedrich Nietzsche First U.S. Edition of ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'' -- Volume VIII of ''The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'' Where He Discusses Superman and the Death of God

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #42: 1876 Edition of ''Ten Years in Washington; Life and Scenes in The National Capital As a Woman Sees Them''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #43: Set of 8 Presidential Dinner Plates Used Aboard Air Force One

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000

• Lot #44: Montgomery Blair Autograph Note Signed -- Blair Served in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Postmaster General

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: $188

• Lot #45: Florida Voting Machine for the 2000 Presidential Election -- Includes ''Hanging Chad'' Ballot

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $688

• Lot #46: George W. Bush Letter Boldly Signed as President -- Dated 25 November 2002 Regarding the Republican Eagles

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #47: Simon Cameron Letter Signed as U.S. Senator -- Cameron Served as Lincoln's Secretary of War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #48: Bill Clinton White House China Salad Plate to Honor the 200th Anniversary of the White House

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,000

• Lot #49: Hillary Clinton Signed First Edition of Her Memoir as Secretary of State, ''Hard Choices''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #50: ''The Life & Public Services of James A. Garfield'' -- 1881 First Edition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #51: Thomas Jefferson Scarce China Platter -- Large Platter Ideal for Display

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $30,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #52: Thomas Jefferson Scarce China Bowl

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #53: Cecil W. Stoughton's Personal, Unpublished 10'' x 8'' Photo of LBJ's Inauguration Aboard Air Force One -- Johnson Prepares to Take the Oath of Office

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #54: Photo Album of the Kennedy Family, With 16 Photos of Their Last Trip to Atoka, Virginia in November 1963 -- Housed in White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton's Personal Red Leather Binder

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #55: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Tiffany Pillbox -- ''A Token of Love''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #56: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Decorative Box -- ''The Best of Times is Now''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #57: Nancy & Ronald Reagan Sugar Bowl

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #58: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Russian Box

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #59: Ronald and Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Charger Plate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #60: Nancy and Ronald Reagan Personally Owned Plate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #61: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned Glass Bowl by the Luxury Glassmaker Steuben

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #62: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Aperitif Glass by the Luxury Glassmaker Steuben

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #63: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned & Used Salad Plate -- Acquired by the Reagans Before His Presidency

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $75

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #64: Ronald & Nancy Reagan Personally Owned & Used Salad Plate

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $75

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #65: John Usher Signature as Secretary of the Interior Under President Lincoln

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #66: Margaret Thatcher Personally Owned China -- Set of 10 Dessert Plates and 7 Cup & Saucers in a Navy Blue Floral Pattern

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #67: Revolutionary War Newspaper from November 1777 Describing the ''Political Character of the Americans''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #68: Simon Cameron Document Signed as Secretary of War Under Abraham Lincoln -- Cameron Notifies Daniel Sickles of His Appointment to the New York Excelsior Brigade

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: $188

• Lot #69: Simon Cameron Signature -- Cameron Served as Lincoln's Secretary of War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #70: Lot of 148 Civil War Magic Lantern Slides -- With Views of President Lincoln, Generals Grant and Lee Plus Important Battles & Interesting Scenes with African-Americans

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #71: Jefferson Davis Handwritten Check Signed from 1872 -- With Full Signature ''Jefferson Davis''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #72: William Dennison, Jr. Signature -- Dennison Served in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Postmaster General

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #73: William Fessenden Signature -- Fessenden Served in Lincoln's Cabinet as Treasury Secretary

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #74: Signature of Abraham Lincoln's Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #75: Hannibal Hamlin Autograph Letter Signed as Vice President Under Abraham Lincoln -- ''...I do not want to be forced into a collision with him...'' -- With CDV of Hamlin

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #76: Hugh McCulloch Signature -- MucCulloch Served as Secretary of the Treasury Under President Lincoln at the Close of the Civil War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #77: Christopher G. Memminger Signature -- Memminger Served as Treasury Secretary for the Confederacy During the Civil War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: John Reagan Signed Photo Mat -- Measures 6.75'' x 8.75''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: John Reagan Signature -- Reagan Served as Postmaster General and Treasury Secretary for the Confederacy

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: James A. Seddon Letter Signed as Confederate Secretary of War -- On C.S.A. War Department Stationery

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

• Lot #81: Signature of James Speed, Attorney General in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: Letter Signed by Confederate Treasury Secretary George A. Trenholm on C.S.A. Treasury Letterhead

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: 1913 Army Regulations Manual

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Quote Signed by 27 Soldiers of ''Easy Company'', AKA the Band of Brothers -- Includes Dick Winters Who Writes His Motto ''Hang Tough'' Plus Carwood Lipton, Lewis Nixon III & 24 More -- With PSA COA

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Enola Gay Crew-Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo by Four Depicting the Atomic Bomb Blast

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: $1,500

• Lot #86: ''The United States Navy from the Revolution to Date'' -- 1917

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: ''The Stars and Stripes'' Newspapers from September 1944 -- ''Yanks at Siegfried Line''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: 1948 ''Los Angeles Examiner'' -- With Coverage of the First Arab-Israeli War

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Brigham Young Document Signed as President of the Church of Latter-Day Saints

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Graphite From CP-1, the First Nuclear Reactor, Used by Enrico Fermi in 1942 to Launch the First Atomic Energy Reaction -- Owned by Colonel Arthur V. Peterson

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #91: Charles Darwin First U.S. Edition of ''Voyage of a Naturalist'' -- Darwin's Notes from the Voyage of the HMS Beagle Where He Questioned His Previous Belief that Species Had Fixed Attributes

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $950

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Charles Darwin's ''The Descent of Man'' First U.S. Edition -- Darwin Applies His Theory of Natural Selection to Human Evolution

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $560

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: Apollo 8 ''Red Number'' NASA Photo on ''A Kodak Paper'' -- Haunting Image of Earth from Space

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: Apollo 12 Technical Crew Debriefing -- Marked Confidential & Stamped With Serial Number 284

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $450

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: Michael Collins Signed First Edition, First Printing of His Memoir, ''Carrying the Fire'' -- Also Includes Letter Signed by Collins Gifting the Book

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Original Saturn V Flight Manual Issued by NASA in January 1969

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Large Fabric Swatch From the Wing of the Wright Flyer, Flown at Kitty Hawk During the First Flight on 17 December 1903 -- Encapsulated by CAG

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #98: ''In the Antarctic'' by Ernest Shackleton, Signed by His Eldest Sister Gertrude Shackleton

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #99: Walt Disney Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo with a Large, Bold Signature

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $1,125

  Final Price: $2,745

• Lot #100: ''The Avengers'' Cast-Signed Poster -- Signed by Creator Stan Lee and 5 Cast Members of the 2012 Blockbuster Film

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,400

  Final Price: Pass