NEW YORK (AP) – Paul McCartney’s lyrics. Jimi Hendrix’s guitar. Bob Dylan’s personal poems and love letters. Memorabilia from some of the most influential musicians of the 20th century was hitting the auction block Monday.

McCartney’s original handwritten working lyrics for the 1968 Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” had a presale estimate of $200,000 to $300,000 at Christie’s sale of Rock and Pop Memorabilia. McCartney gave the lyrics to his biographer Barry Miles. The last four lines are omitted and include deletions and changes to the text.

A previously unheard and undocumented recording of an interview with John Lennon was expected to sell for $25,000 to $35,000. In the wide-ranging interview, used for a 1974 article in Crawdaddy magazine, Lennon talks about his songwriting process and questions of a possible Beatles reunion.

Another Lennon artifact was a signed lithograph inscribed with the controversial song lyric, “Woman is the Nigger of the World.” Its presale estimate was $8,000 to $12,000.

Hendrix’s guitar, a Fender Stratocaster with a sunburst finish that was modified to accommodate his left-handed use, had a pre-sale estimate of $80,000 to $120,000. It has been kept at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland since the museum’s opening in 1996.

The “Personal Archives of Suze Rotolo,” Dylan’s girlfriend, who was featured on the cover of his 1963 album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” contains his notes, love letters and poems and had a presale estimate of $600.

The demonstration copy of the album cover with track listings amended in Dylan’s handwriting was estimated to fetch $8,000 to $12,000.