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Nate D. Sanders Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
May 2025 Auction
Auction Date
05/29/2025 - 05/29/2025
Sale Number
#52925
Total Lots
104
Sold Lots
11
Lots Sold
10.58%
Unsold Lots
93
Total Sales (USD)
48,309.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
14 George Washington

George Washington Autograph Letter Signed from Philadelphia on 8 June 1787, Just Days After Washington Was Elected President of the Constitutional Convention -- With Charles Hamilton COA

1787 Not Available USD 31,250.00
120 Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Signed Stock Certificate to the Houdini Picture Corporation with Extremely Bold Signature -- With University Archives COA

1921 Not Available USD 3,661.00
121 Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini Signed Stock Certificate to the Houdini Picture Corporation -- With University Archives COA

1921 Not Available USD 3,025.00
79 Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin Signed Photo as ''The Tramp''

Not Available USD 2,269.00
18 Harper Lee

Harper Lee Autograph Letter Signed from NYC After 9/11 -- ''...when you're walking around down there, every step you take is on a pulverized human being. To know what hell is like, go take a look...''

2002 Not Available USD 2,000.00
6 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Letter Signed as U.S. Senator -- With University Archives COA

1954 Not Available USD 1,875.00
9 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Note Signed as U.S. Senator -- With University Archives COA

1954 Not Available USD 1,875.00
112 Gus Grissom

Lot of Items Personally Owned by Mercury 7 and Apollo 1 Astronaut Gus Grissom -- Includes Handwritten & Signed Check, Grissom's Textbook with Handwritten Notes, His Life Preserver & More

1965 Not Available USD 916.00
61 Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of His Famous Painting ''The Truth About Santa'' -- Measures 19'' x 25''

1972 Not Available USD 625.00
60 Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell Signed Lithograph of His Famous Painting ''Marriage License'' -- Measures 19'' x 25''

1972 Not Available USD 625.00
72 Scott Weinger

'Aladdin'' Photo Signed by Scott Weinger Who Voiced the Character of Aladdin and Linda Larkin Who Voiced Princess Jasmine -- With Beckett COA

1992 Not Available USD 188.00
33 H.L. Mencken

Lot of Two H.L. Mencken Initialed Letters from May 1935 -- ''...It will take a powerful argument and a liberal use of alcohol to bring me back to my normal frame of mind...''

1935 Not Available Not Sold
34 Sylvia Plath

First Edition of Sylvia Plath's Poem ''A Winter Ship'' -- One of Only 60 Copies Extant, Personally Owned by Sylvia Plath

1960 Not Available Not Sold
35 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Signed ''Atlas Shrugged'' -- Special 10th Anniversary Limited Edition -- Exceptional, Near Fine Condition

1967 Not Available Not Sold
36 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Sweet Thursday'' -- ''...face the future with courage, humility and money...''

1954 Not Available Not Sold
37 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' First Printing in First Printing Dust Jacket -- Near Fine Condition

1939 Not Available Not Sold
38 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Signed Acceptance Speech for His Nobel Prize for Literature

Not Available Not Sold
39 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''I hate to say this as claimant but I think the best writing I have ever done...''

1959 Not Available Not Sold
40 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''Finally I have my form. Strange it was there all the time. I was the last to know...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
41 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed ''John Steinbeck'' -- From England Opening with ''Canterbury Tales'', ''Whan that Aprille wip his shoures soote - The droghte of March hath perced to the roote''

1959 Not Available Not Sold

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