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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

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

  

  Min Bid: $950

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $125

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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $2,950

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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...''

  

  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"

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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...''

  

  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...''

  

  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'...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,600

  Final Price: Pass

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

  

  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

  

  Min Bid: $1,680

  Final Price: Pass