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February 2013 Auction Ends Wednesday, February 6th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 2/6/2013. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1148: Katharine Lee Bates Autograph Letter Signed -- Refers to ''America the Beautiful'' -- ''...I enclose an autograph copy of the hymn you are so good as to like...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1149: Edie Beale of Grey Gardens -- ''...I think you were very brave to protest your working conditions and fight for the right! I should write 15 books about what they did to us!...I hate Florida!''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1150: Daniel Beard Signed Photo -- One of the Original Scout Masters

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1151: Mafia ''Godfather'' Joe Bonanno's Glasses -- With COA by Daughter-in-Law -- With Additional Twice-Signed Check by Bonanno

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1152: Signed First Edition of 1950's Household Gem ''Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1153: Remarkable Handwritten Account From the French Revolution -- Containing The Opinions of Its Parisian Author Pertaining to the Revolution -- Scarce

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1154: John Hinckley, Jr. 1974 Texas Tech University Yearbook -- With John Hinckley, Jr. on Page 482

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1155: 1925 Manual Regarding Construction of the Holland Tunnel -- Quarto Runs 162pp. -- With Worksheet Pages -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1156: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #1157: J. Edgar Hoover Signs His ''Masters of Deceit''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1158: J. Edgar Hoover Signed Portrait Print -- From a 1939 Sketch by Cartoonist Paul Frehm -- Signed ''To Ellen Hamilton / Best wishes / 12.8.42 / J. Edgar Hoover'' -- 9.25'' x 11'' -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1159: J. Edgar Hoover 1950 Signed Photo With His Autograph Inscription

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1160: J. Edgar Hoover 1953 Typed Letter Signed -- Congratulating Employee on Tenth Year With FBI

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1161: Medieval French Vellum Document -- Handwritten in Exquisite Script

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1162: 1965 Miss America Pageant Program -- 64 Pages, 8.5'' x 11'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1163: 1966 Miss America Pageant Program -- 64 Pages, 8.5'' x 11'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1164: Miss America Pageant Program 1967 -- 64 Pages, 8.5'' x 11'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1165: 1968 Miss America Pageant Program -- 64 Pages, 8.5'' x 11'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1166: 1969 Miss America Pageant Program -- 64 Pages, 8.5'' x 11'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1167: Rare 2'' x 3.5'' New York 1839 ''Gentleman's Pocket Almanac'' -- With Handwritten Notes in Pencil -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1168: New York City Tunnel Contract -- 1921 -- 8'' x 11'' -- Tape Repair to Backstrip -- Very Good

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1169: Larchmont, NY Police Department Log Book -- Records Incidents in Larchmont Luxury Community -- 1911-1913 -- 21.5'' x 16.5''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1170: New York City Police Department Log Book -- Records Incidents in the Larchmont Luxury Community From 1931-1932

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1171: Special Edition of The ''New York Post'' Newspaper -- Reporting September 11th 2001 -- ''ACT OF WAR / World Trade Center destroyed...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1172: Autograph Letter Signed by John B. McDonald, Visionary Creator of the New York Subway System -- ''...enclosing ticket for admission to the Sagamore...'' -- 1904

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1173: Irish Reformer ''Daniel O'Connell'' Free Frank Signed -- From His Hometown Caherciveen -- 4.75'' x 3'' -- Dampstaining

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1174: 1763 Pennsylvania Bail Bond -- Trespassing Fee Requires Payment of Forty Pounds

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1175: ''Playboy'' Magazine One Year Anniversary Issue -- December 1954

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1176: Rare 1930 Contract Signed by Circus Mogul John Ringling for a ''High Perch Act'' -- ''The Employers May Require the Artists to Dress in Tights if Desired'' -- Fascinating Piece of Circus History

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1177: Leo Ryan 1969 Typed Letter Signed 9 Years Before His Murder at Guyana's Jonestown Massacre

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1178: General Winfield Scott Document Signed -- Seminole Wars Relating to Soldier Abuse

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1179: One of the First Articles Describing Surfing -- Scarce 1822 Edition of ''The Missionary Herald'' Magazine -- ''...he rides on the fore front of the surge...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1180: 1839 Republic of Texas Document Signed by George W. Davis Who Fought at the Battle of Gonzales -- 7.75'' x 1.25'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1181: 1863 Texas ''Petition to Sell Slave'' -- ''...she prays for an order to sell said negro to the highest bidder for cash...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1182: Rare Titanic Survivor Document -- Crew Member Thomas Knowles Certificate of Discharge from Service on Previous Ship -- Dated 21 December 1896

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #1183: Signature of ''Richard Wainwright / Rear Admiral US Navy / Aug 28 - 1911'' -- Admiral of the Spanish-American War -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Fine

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #1184: WITHDRAWN

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: W/D