Book, Autograph, And Ephemera Auction

A carefully curated sale featuring over 50 signed books (including 14 signed first editions), presidential and political autographs, literary classics, photography, Missouri/Kansas history, transportation ephemera, and multiple collections of tokens, medals, and commemoratives. Notable names include Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Jimmy Carter, Gordon Parks, Carl Sandburg, Saul Bellow, Calvin Trillin, Bennett Cerf, Bob Hope, Daniel Schorr, and David Maraniss.

• Early 20th-Century Presidential Autograph Album — multiple U.S. political figures; album of signatures.

• Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions signed; Harry & Bess Truman First Lady Cookbook signed; invitation to Thomas Hart Benton mural event.

• Gordon Parks: The Learning Tree signed first edition; A Choice of Weapons signed.

• Jimmy Carter: Living Faith signed first edition.

• Carl Sandburg: Abraham Lincoln biography signed.

• Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March (nice copy; author represented in sale).

• Literature, biography & culture: Jess Stearn (Edgar Cayce 1st ed), Calvin Trillin, Ira Hirschmann, Drew Middleton, Samuel Rosenman, John Holt, R. Lofton Hudson, Maryln Schwartz, Ezra Tipple, A.L. Alexander, Leonard Slater, Saul Kleiman — many signed.

• A. F. Baldus / Pickwick Greyhound transportation archive — early bus/coach history ephemera.

• Missouri & Kansas history: 1826 Missouri District Court writ; Civil War era military manuscripts; Union soldier discharge documents.

• Exonumia & smalls: vintage trade tokens, transit tokens, naughty “Heads & Tails” novelties, World’s Fair medals, Kansas commemorative coins, and mixed token/medal lots.

Collectors of signed books, first editions, presidential & political autographs, African American photography & literature (Gordon Parks), Midwest history, Civil War documents, transportation ephemera, and exonumia.

Keywords: Harry S. Truman signed, Bess Truman signed, Jimmy Carter signed first edition, Gordon Parks signed The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks A Choice of Weapons signed, Carl Sandburg Abraham Lincoln signed, Saul Bellow, Calvin Trillin, Bennett Cerf signed, Bob Hope signed Confessions of a Hooker, Daniel Schorr signed first edition, David Maraniss signed, Edgar Cayce biography first edition, presidential autograph album, William F. Vilas autograph, Thomas Hart Benton mural invitation, A. F. Baldus archive, Pickwick Greyhound ephemera, Missouri history document 1826, Civil War manuscript, Union soldier discharge, trade tokens, transit tokens, World’s Fair medals, Kansas commemorative coins, vintage coin tokens, antique ephemera, signed books, first editions, Americana.