Nye's copy of the 1965 classic, which is inscribed, "For Harold, with my admiration and much gratitude. Truman." The KBI agent got others to sign the book, too. Signatures include three fellow agents on the Clutter case, then-KBI director Logan Sanford and actor Robert Blake, who portrayed condemned killer Perry Smith in the 1967 movie version. Still in dispute are the ownership rights to Harold Nye's steno notebooks, which son Ron described as "personal journals" he never intended to turn over to the state. Ron has taken the notebooks off the auction block. The Kansas attorney general's office contends the notebooks were used in the elder Nye's official work for the KBI. In letters to Vintage Memorabilia, the state has demanded the "immediate return" of all investigative documents, plus "plans, memoranda ... or other data (and) information ... bearing upon the activities and functions of the KBI. ... "To be clear, that includes his personal steno notebooks," one letter stated. Ron Nye, 62, said he suspected the quarrel over his dad's personal writings centered on a coveted salutation scribbled inside one of the steno pads: "For Harold Nye -- In affectionate admiration. Nelle Harper Lee." Lee, who helped her friend Capote with his research in Kansas, dated the inscription Jan. 15, 1960 -- less than six months before the release of her only novel, the masterpiece "To Kill a Mockingbird." "It's probably the first signature Harper Lee's given anyone," said Gary McAvoy, owner of Vintage Memorabilia. "It's obviously of great