Nate D. Sanders Auctions: July 2025 Auction, 73125, Los Angeles

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Page Size: 101 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Signed First Edition of His Book, ''Genius and the Mobocracy'' -- Without Inscription

1949 Not Available USD 1,500.00
77 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed on His Writing Method: ''The first type script will be only a working script...when it is all done and checked and rechecked will we go into a final draft''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
78 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Why should you care that both my typewriters are on the blink...That I have a hundred pages of m.s. in handwriting and no one to type...Oh! No!...''

Not Available Not Sold
79 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Here is some more of that dreadful manuscript for you...I damn well just have to get some writing done...''

Not Available Not Sold
80 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...use [a recorder] constantly for listening back to my own not immortal words. In fact, on listening back many of my words prove very mortal indeed...''

1959 Not Available Not Sold
81 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Twice-Signed Including with His Full Signature, ''John Steinbeck'' -- ''...My work, while continuing, is very confused and confusing...''

Not Available Not Sold
82 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I don't particularly want comment until I'm well along. Also please keep the contents under your mental hat. I don't want my theme to get out...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
83 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''... I think you should get your mind off marriage and think of something a little more elevated like sex...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
84 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I can't seem to operate without hundreds of false starts...After so long a lay-off from writing I feel like an amateur...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
85 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Autograph Letter Draft Revealing that His Family Was One of the Very Early Christian Settlers of Palestine in 1850

1958 Not Available Not Sold
86 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Handwritten Rhyming Verse -- ''When all your friends have left you, And life seems but a wreck, May you tumble through your ass hole, And break your fuckin' neck...''

Not Available Not Sold
87 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- ''...It is not true that you are only homesick for a good home...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
88 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Letter Signed from Sag Harbor, New York -- ''I built a little model of a tiny work room...It will be like a small lighthouse...and it will have nothing in it except my work things''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
89 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Letter Signed from Sag Harbor, New York -- ''...I told him that it was not his responsibility and that he or his brother should phone me immediately if any violence broke out...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
90 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- ''...It is the story of an elf in Algiers during the preparation for the Italian Invasion...The book will be called Once There Was A War...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
91 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Letter Signed -- Steinbeck Gifts a Cross Made of Wood Found in Jerusalem by His Grandfather After a Lightning Storm -- ''...My grandfather Steinbeck was in the Holy Land...''

1958 Not Available USD 875.00
92 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Postcard Referring to Himself in the Third Person -- ''...Old false start JS is up to his tricks again...''

1958 Not Available Not Sold
93 Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Autograph Note Signed with a Very Large, Bold Signature

1888 Not Available USD 1,375.00
94 Robert Gurr

Disneyland Imagineer Robert Gurr Signed Haunted Mansion Poster -- With Beckett COA

Not Available USD 125.00
95 Robert Gurr

Disneyland Imagineer Robert Gurr Signed Monorail Poster -- With Beckett COA

Not Available USD 125.00
96 John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

'The Blues Brothers'' Cast-Signed Page, Including John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's Autographs -- With PSA COA

Not Available Not Sold
97 Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy Signed 8'' x 10'' Photo from 1932

1932 Not Available Not Sold
98

Lot of 21 World Premiere Tickets to the First ''Mission: Impossible'' Film in 1996

Not Available Not Sold
99

Screen-Worn Zombie Wardrobe From ''Resident Evil: Afterlife''

Not Available Not Sold
100 Charles ''Tex'' Watson

Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Manson Family Member Charles ''Tex'' Watson

1981 Not Available Not Sold
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