RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

Important Swedish novelist and playwright (1849–1912) who takes a place among the most influential figures in the development of modern theater. Uncom

Uncommon matte-finish 3.75 x 5.75 postcard photo of Thomas standing next to American anthologist and poet Oscar Williams, the latter of whom pens an A

Untranslated ALS in French, one page, 5 x 8, April 18, 1839. Untranslated. Reverse of the second integral page addressed in Tocqueville’s own hand. In

Exceptional ink signature, “Leo Tolstoy,” on an off-white 5.25 x 3.5 album page affixed to a slightly larger cardstock sheet. In fine condition.

Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist (1896–1963). Signed book: Le Fruit Permis. First edition. Paris: L'Imprime...

ALS in French, one page, 4 x 5.25, July 10, 1886. Response to an admirer. In full (translated): "Here sir are the few lines you requested. A se...

Scarce ALS in French, signed “le vieux malade Voltaire votre ancien serviteur [the old sick Voltaire, your old servant],” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7

Signed book: Breakfast of Champions. Collector’s edition. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 295 pages. Signed on the colophon i

ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 5.5, June 7, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In full: “We shall arrive, in our best clothes & behaviour, with tick...

Unsigned transmittal envelope from Wells to H. E. Hadley, 4.75 x 3.5, addressed in Wells’s hand, “Hadley F.R.S., Physics,” with a note in the upper ri

Two items: a TLS signed “W. C. Williams,” one page, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, November 28, 1960, in part: “Thank you very much for the treatments yo

Influential American writer (1900–1938) known for his poetic autobiographical fiction, best remembered for the 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel. His li

Three items: an Otsego County Bank check, 5.75 x 2, filled out and signed by James Fenimore Cooper, “J. Fenimore Cooper,” payable to Latton & Co...

Five items: a TLS from Edgar Rice Burroughs, signed “Burroughs,” personal letterhead, September 10, 1931, in part: “It was kind of you to say that you

Signed book: Fahrenheit 451. Limited edition, numbered 445/2000. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover with slipcase, 7.25 x 11.5, 152 pages. Sig

Two ALSs, both signed “W. C. Bryant,” each one page, 4 x 6 and 5 x 8, July 31, 1854, and February 22, 1870. The earliest, a letter to a publisher, in

ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, December 25, 1901. Letter to a “little girl from India,” in part: “I certainly have not forgotten you...

Ink signature, “Very truly yours, Wilkie Collins, April 20th, 1876,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 slip. In fine condition.

Two items: a vintage matte-finish 7.5 x 9.5 bust-length photo of Coward, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, “For Joan Henrion,

Signed book: Santa Claus. Second printing. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. Hardcover, 7.75 x 11, 18 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free en

British writer (1870–1945) who first came to prominence in the 1890s as the young intimate companion of Oscar Wilde. ALS, one page, 7 x 8.75, St. Ann’

Collection of seven items signed by French writers, including: Georges Courteline (ALS praising Mark Twain); Alexandre Dumas, pere (signature and salu

Bold fountain pen signature, “Robert Frost,” on the 6 x 9.5 colophon removed from a limited edition of In The Clearing, numbered 840/1500. In fine con

Signed book: The Land of Shorter Shadows. First edition. NY: William Morrow & Company, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 228 pages. S...

French writer (1822–1896) and founder of the Academie Goncourt and creator of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize. Untranslate

Signed book: A Quick Look Behind. Limited edition, numbered 46/300. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.75 x 9.7...

Prolific British novelist (1856–1925) best known for such adventure fare as King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quatermain. Uncommon 3.5 x 5.5 postcard pho

Signed book: Roots. First edition. limited issue, numbered 340/500. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.5, 587 pages. S

Signed book: Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir. First limited edition, numbered 445/2000. NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover with slipcase

Ink signature, “Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow,” on an off-white 4 x 1.5 slip. Handsomely cloth-matted and framed with an engraved portrait to an ov

Signed book: Lazarus Laughed. Limited edition of 775 copies (this being number 484). NY: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Hardcover, 6 x 9.25, 179 pages. Sig

Signed book: The Cat in the Hat. NY: Random House, 1957. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 61 pages. Signed and inscribed on the reverse of the first free end pa

Belgian author (1903–1989) best known for his Inspector Maigret detective novels. Glossy 4 x 5.75 photo of the author lighting his pipe, signed in bla

LS signed “Henry Irving,” written in the hand of his secretary, Dracula author Bram Stoker, one page, 5 x 8, Lyceum Theatre letterhead, July 25, 1893.

Signed book: A Thurber Garland. First edition. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Hardcover, 5.5 x 4.25, 30 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free

Two TLSs, one signed “Very sincerely, Edgar Wallace” and the other “Edgar Wallace,” both one page, 31 Portland Place letterhead, dated November 16, 19

ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Spade House, Sandgate letterhead, July 10, 1905. Letter to Harris, in part: “All these things are of

ALS signed “T. N.,” four pages on two sheets, 6 x 7, Deepwood Drive letterhead, July 11, 1970. Letter to author James Leo Herlihy, in part: “Two weeks

TLS signed “Tom,” one page, 8.5 x 11, no date. Letter to Jim, in full: “A well-deserved feeling of shame has made me hesitant about asking you if you’

Crisp fountain pen signature, “W. B. Yeats,” on the 5.5 x 9.25 colophon removed from a limited edition of The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Y

ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5.5, no date but postmarked Paris, August 7, 1900. Letter to Blanche Marot, in full (translated)

Italian composer (1797–1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in Italian, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 8.75 x 10, July 2

Signed book: Requiem Mass. Novello’s original octavo edition. London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1891. Hardcover, 6.75 x 10, 152 pages. Inscribed at the t

Leading English composer (1857–1934) and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. Ink signature, “Edward Elgar,” on an off-white 5

Russian composer (1875–1956) who concentrated primarily on monumental operas, ballets, and cantatas. Scarce vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 photo of Gl

Russian-Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957). Rare ALS in Cyrillic, one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 7.75, May 15, 1933. Letter to Yuri Leopoldovich, i

Russian-Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957). Vintage glossy 2.75 x 4.25 portrait of Gnessin, signed and inscribed in Cyrillic in black ink

AMQS on an off-white 5.5 x 3.75 card, signed in fountain pen, “Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1937.” Below his signature, Rachmaninoff pens a single chord. A mi

Influential composer and pianist (1871–1915) widely considered to be the main Russian symbolist composer. Scarce piano sheet music for Scriabin’s Poem

Excessively rare and extremely desirable manuscript DS in German, one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, July 21, 1801. Untranslated contract in which Haydn c