Nate D. Sanders Auctions: September 2025 Auction, 92525, Los Angeles

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Fielding Lucas	''Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book'' First Edition from 1827 -- Scarce & Important Book in the History of America	Baltimore:	1827	Not Available	Not Sold
2	Timothy Marwood	Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood		1995	Not Available	USD 125.00
3	Timothy Marwood	Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood		1991	Not Available	Not Sold
4	Timothy Marwood	Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood		1994	Not Available	Not Sold
5	Timothy Marwood	Original Thomas the Tank Engine Artwork Hand-Drawn & Signed by Timothy Marwood		1993	Not Available	USD 125.00
6	Charles Schulz	Original Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip from 1959 -- Beethoven Themed Strip		1959	Not Available	USD 25,000.00
7	Charles Schulz	Original Charles Schulz Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Strip from 1960 -- Beethoven Themed Strip		1960	Not Available	USD 71,335.00
8	Bill Watterson	Bill Watterson Signed Limited Edition Lithograph of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' from 1992 -- Pristine Condition		1992	Not Available	USD 9,982.50
9	William Faulkner	William Faulkner First Edition, First Printing of ''Light in August'' -- In First Printing Dust Jacket	New York	1932	Not Available	Not Sold
10	Dashiell Hammett	Dashiell Hammett First U.S. Edition, First Printing of ''The Glass Key''	New York	1931	Not Available	Not Sold
11	Nathaniel Hawthorne	First Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Twice-Told Tales'' -- One of Only 1,000 Printed, in Rare Original Binding	Boston	1837	Not Available	Not Sold
12	Joseph Heller	Joseph Heller Typed Letter Signed to the Air Force -- ''...[make] available to him any information about my military service that he wishes to obtain...''		1983	Not Available	Not Sold
13	Joseph Heller	Joseph Heller Typed Note Regarding His ''Catch-22'' Characters Yossarian & the Chaplain -- ''...Yossarian isn't Jewish and was not intended to be...''			Not Available	USD 125.00
14	Sinclair Lewis	Sinclair Lewis Signed First Edition, First Printing of ''Babbitt''	New York	1922	Not Available	Not Sold
15	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell First Edition, First Printing of ''Gone With the Wind'' -- Housed in Rare First Printing Dust Jacket	New York	1936	Not Available	Not Sold
16	F. Rabelais M.D.	Two Volume Set Published in 1708 of ''The Whole Works of F. Rabelais M.D.''	London	1708	Not Available	Not Sold
17	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' First Printing in First Printing Dust Jacket -- Near Fine Condition	New York	1939	Not Available	Not Sold
18	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck Typed Letter -- ''...what I had suspected and did not quite trust, that I should back off and get my writing muscles strong...''		1958	Not Available	Not Sold
19	John Steinbeck	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...''		1958	Not Available	Not Sold
20	John Steinbeck	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...''		1959	Not Available	Not Sold
21	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck Typed Note Regarding Steinbeck Scholar Peter Lisca -- ''...he has not the slightest vestige of a sense of humor...''		undated	Not Available	Not Sold
22	John Steinbeck	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...''		1958	Not Available	Not Sold
23	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck Typed Letter Requesting Landscaping for His Property		1958	Not Available	Not Sold
24	John Steinbeck	John Steinbeck Autograph Note -- ''This is a mess...What a mess is this room...''			Not Available	Not Sold
25	Elaine Steinbeck	Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Note Signed Regarding Arthurian Music		undated but likely 1958	Not Available	Not Sold

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.