The order, by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr., was issued Thursday from Burrell's court in Sacramento. Burrell's order included a partial inventory of Kaczynski's property, listing the things that can be put up for sale and ordering that any proceeds go toward a court-ordered $15 million in restitution to the victims of the confessed Unabomber.

Kaczynski, who is now 64, is serving four consecutive life terms in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., for "the unspeakable and monstrous crimes for which he shows utterly no remorse," as Burrell put it when he sentenced Kaczynski on May 4, 1998.

Burrell ordered the U.S. marshal to "take the steps necessary" to dispose of the claptrap and clutter found in Kaczynski's rudimentary cabin outside Lincoln, Mont., when federal agents arrested him in April 1996. All the stuff -- including three typewriters, a hatchet, hand tools, shovels, a hammer, saw blades and a briefcase containing Kaczynski's degrees from the University of Michigan -- was ordered to "be sold at a reasonably advertised Internet auction." The marshal has two months to get a contract with an "Internet auctioneer," who will be paid up to 10 percent of the sale proceeds.

Earlier, Kaczynski had asked that his firearms and bomb-making materials be returned to him. The judge said these items will not be part of the auction and will not be sent back to the Unabomber.

Perhaps the most valuable item to be sold, however, is the personal journal of the reclusive Unabomber, some 22,000 pages in which Kaczynski detailed his hatred of just about everything and everybody. It's likely the journal would have been introduced into evidence had Kaczynski gone to trial, but at the last minute, on Jan. 22, 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty and the trial was avoided. (In March, 2004, The Chronicle filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, asking for a copy of Kaczynski's journal, but, to date, the government has not sent The Chronicle any of it, leaving most of Kaczynski's written thoughts still under wraps.)

But a glimpse of Kaczynski's thinking came in a prosecution memo excerpting the journal and filed in federal court. In the journal, the memo said, Kaczynski wrote in 1971, seven years before he began his deadly rampage, "my motive for doing what I am going to do is simply personal revenge."

He kept the journal from 1969 to 1996. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed three people and wounded 23 others in 16 bombings. He went public in 1995, writing a letter to The Chronicle, in which he threatened to blow up airplanes at Los Angeles International Airport and, later, forcing the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish his 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto.

That, however, was simply his public relations pamphlet, and had little of the personal venomous feelings contained in the still-unreleased personal journal. Under the court's order, any information in the journal about Kaczynski's victims or how he made his bombs will be redacted before the document is auctioned off.

After the manifesto was published, in September 1995, Kaczynski's sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, thought she recognized the writing. She showed it to her husband, David Kaczynski, and he ultimately agreed that it sounded like his brother and in early 1996 he went to the FBI with his suspicions.

At eBay, the best-known Internet auction site, spokesman Hani Durzy said Friday he could not put any value on what the Unabomber items might bring, but added that eBay has "a policy on 'murder-abilia,' which is a combination of memorabilia and murder." He said eBay reviews all potential auction items that might be "marketed as the personal effects of someone who has committed murder."

Durzy said that if the Unabomber materials came through eBay, they would likely be turned down, under eBay's prohibition against marketing things that were owned by infamous criminals.

George Noceti, former senior executive vice president for the San Francisco auction house Butterfield & Butterfield, said Kaczynski's journal might sell for anywhere from $5,000 to $100,000, "depending on the competition," but the other items -- tools, books and the like -- would probably not sell for much.

"The diary would be the main thing," Noceti said. "But it would depend on how many bidders there are." He said "auctions for macabre" material, like Kaczynski's things, do not draw as much competitive bidding as mainstream items, such as Mark Twain's journal, "which would be a lot higher."

Nonetheless, a library might want Kaczynski's journal. For example, the University of Michigan's Labadie Collection, which specializes in the papers of anarchists, might bid on the journal.

-- Original writings

-- Tools: files, hatchets and knives to saws, axes and scissors

-- Clothing: gloves, jackets and scarves, shoes, hats and a poncho

-- Three typewriters and three watches

-- Two books of checks in the name of Theodore J. Kaczynski

-- Books: Titles ranging from “201 Russian Verbs” to “Zapata and the Mexican Revolution.”

What won’t

-- Five firearms already arranged to be sold to the victims for $300

-- One hundred items construed to be bomb-making materials

E-mail Michael Taylor at mtaylor@sfchronicle.com.

This article appeared on page B - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle