RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document, and Autograph Auction

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Klabund636 - Klabund
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Alfred Henschke (1890–1928), known as Klabund, was a German writer who adapted and translated a number of far-eastern works. An artist’s pencil sketch
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Oskar Kokoschka637 - Oskar Kokoschka
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Signed book: Spur Im Treibsand. Zurich: Atlantis Verlag, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 4.75 x 7.75, 264 pages. Signed on the half-title page in pe
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Oskar Kokoschka638 - Oskar Kokoschka
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Vibrant color 4.25 x 7 print removed from a book showing one of Kokoschka’s paintings, signed in the border in black felt tip. In fine condition.
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Alfred Kubin639 - Alfred Kubin
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Austrian artist and occasional writer (1877–1959), a member of the Blaue Reiter group, best known for his expressionistic illustrations for works by P
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Gerhard Richter640 - Gerhard Richter
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German artist (born 1932) whose works have achieved world-record prices at auction. Color 4 x 5.75 postcard of one of Richter’s colorful works, signed
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Norman Rockwell641 - Norman Rockwell
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Signed book: Norman Rockwell: Illustrator. First edition. NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc, 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket, 9 x 12, 208 pages. S
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Andy Warhol643 - Andy Warhol
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FDC with a cachet honoring the fine arts, signed in thick black felt tip, “Andy.” Surface loss to edges from previous mounting, otherwise fine conditi
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Robert Crumb645 - Robert Crumb
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Exceptional and detailed signed ink sketch of man and woman seated at a barroom table on an off-white 5.5 x 4.75 card, signed in the lower right, “R.
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Estimate : 4,500.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Walt Disney646 - Walt Disney
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Personal check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Disney, “Walter E. Disney,” payable to Dolores Scott for $2500, April 23, 1950. In
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Walt Disney647 - Walt Disney
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Signed book: The Eighth Art by Victor Keppler. First edition. NY: William Morrow & Company, 1938. Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.25, 266 pages. Signed on ...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Disney: Sleeping Beauty648 - Disney: Sleeping Beauty
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Original production drawing of Maleficent as the fire-breathing dragon in 1959’s Sleeping Beauty. Accomplished in graphite on 16 field animation paper
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Walt Kelly649 - Walt Kelly
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Humorous ALS signed “W. Kelly,” one page, 7.5 x 10.5, Simon and Schuster letterhead, 1923. Response to a request for a drawing. In full: “This is to r
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Stan Lee650 - Stan Lee
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Color 24 x 36 poster entitled The Invincible Iron Man, signed in black felt tip. Rolled and in fine condition, with an Excelsior Approved hologram and
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Stan Lee651 - Stan Lee
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Color 27 x 40 one-sheet movie poster for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, signed in silver ink. Rolled and in fine condition, with some scattered
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Stan Lee652 - Stan Lee
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Color satin-finish 20 x 16 photo of Spiderman in a classic pose above the city, prominently signed in black felt tip by Lee. In fine condition.
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Charles Schulz653 - Charles Schulz
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Fabulous signed ballpoint sketch of Snoopy on an off-white 5 x 3 card, crisply signed on the right side, “Charles M. Schulz.” In fine condition.
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Charles Schulz654 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: We’re Right Behind You, Charlie Brown. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964. Softcover, 5.25 x 8. Signed on the half-t...
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Charles Schulz655 - Charles Schulz
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Fantastic original hand-inked three-panel Peanuts daily comic strip, dated March 12, 1988, on an off-white 19.75 x 6.25 sheet of artist’s cardstock, s
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz656 - Charles Schulz
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Large original hand-inked Peanuts drawing on an off-white 15 x 10.5 sheet of artist’s cardstock, signed in the lower left corner, “Schulz.” The sketch
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles657 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 First Printing (Mirage Studios, 1984) CGC 5.0 Off-White to White pages. A highly desirable first printing copy featuri
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Authors and Illustrators660 - Authors and Illustrators
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Collection of approximately 100 items, including signatures, bookplates, trimmed book pages, letters, typescripts, and a few other formats, with some
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Honore de Balzac661 - Honore de Balzac
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Rare and bold ink signature, “M. B., M. Desnoyer, Reponse, Balzac,” on an off-white 5.25 x 4 sheet affixed to a slightly larger card. In very good con
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Edgar Rice Burroughs662 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Two original mimeograph brad-bound scripts for the motion picture Jungle Girl, loosely based on the Burroughs novel of the same title, an Estimating S
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Charles Baudelaire663 - Charles Baudelaire
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Influential nineteenth-century French writer (1821–1867) best known for his highly imaginative and experimental verse, including the seminal 1857 coll
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Estimate : 4,500.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Raymond Chandler664 - Raymond Chandler
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DS, one page, 7.5 x 10.25, May 16, 1946. Agreement between Chandler and Paramount Pictures for him to render services “in connection with an assignmen
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens665 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Nice ink signature, “Truly yours, Mark Twain, June 24/07,” on an off-white card. Matted and framed with two portraits of the author to an overall size
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Samuel L. Clemens666 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Outstanding original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo of a young Clemens seated in a chair by Rogers and Nelson of London, signed in the lower border in black
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens667 - Samuel L. Clemens
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First National Bank of Hartford bank check, 7.75 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Clemens, “Samuel L. Clemens,” payable to Hartford Dramatic Society f
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens668 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Ink signature, “Truly yours, S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain, Oct. 1900,” on an off-white 7.5 x 4.5 album page. Moderate overall toning and some chipping to
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Madame de Stael669 - Madame de Stael
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein (1766–1817), known as Madame de Stael, was a Swiss author who lived in Paris among various other locations abro
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens670 - Charles Dickens
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Hand-addressed and initialed mailing envelope, 4.5 x 2.5, addressed by Dickens to “Mrs. Lockey, Prospect Villas, Forest Hill, 5,” and ornately initial
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Charles Dickens671 - Charles Dickens
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Ink signature, “Charles Dickens,” on an off-white 2.5 x 1.25 slip, also signed below by one of his editors, “W. H. Wills.” Handsomely double-matted an
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Alexander Dumas, pere672 - Alexander Dumas, pere
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Distinguished French novelist (1802–1870) of such historical classics as The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle673 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 5.25 x 3.5, personal letterhead, no date but circa 1920s. Letter concerning a publication. In part: “I will not
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Ralph Waldo Emerson674 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ANS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page, 4.75 x 3.75, December 27, no year. In full: “Will Dr. Ross give Mr. Thoreau Chevalier’s notes on the United Stat
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Gustave Flaubert675 - Gustave Flaubert
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Rare ALS in French, signed “Gv. Flaubert,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date but circa early 1870s. Letter to his friend the Baroness Adele Lepic. In par
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson676 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page, 3.5 x 5.25, May 29, 1873. Letter to Fields. In full: “Judge Kent is my old classmate so you must excuse me that
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Robert Frost677 - Robert Frost
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Matte-finish 4 x 6.5 photo, signed in the lower border in black ink. In fine condition, with lightly filled-in vertical edges, and some tape remnants
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Jean Genet678 - Jean Genet
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ALS in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. Untranslated letter to French journalist Andre Parinaud, asking for more time to write an article and e
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe679 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Rare LS in German, signed “J. W. v. Goethe,” one page, 6.5 x 4.5, September 2, 1822. An order directed to the Hoffman book store. Goethe requests twel
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky680 - Maxim Gorky
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Important Russian/Soviet writer and activist (1868–1936) who emerged as a key founder of the Socialist realism literary method. Exceptional matte-fini
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway681 - Ernest Hemingway
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Colorful 6.5 x 3 ticket for a bullfight at the Plaza Toros de Malaga, August 7, 1959, from the personal property of Roberto Herrera Sotolongo, persona
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Ernest Hemingway682 - Ernest Hemingway
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Bank check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to Portador (bearer) for 120.00 pesos, July 28, 1947. Rever
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo683 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 5 x 7.75, January 2, 1849. Untranslated letter sending thanks to Mr. Achaintre of Louviers, likely the printer Albert Achaint
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Max Jacob684 - Max Jacob
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Important French poet, painter, writer, and critic (1876–1944) who converted from Judaism to Catholicism at age 39. Handwritten manuscript in French b
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Ken Kesey686 - Ken Kesey
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Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. First British edition. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 311 pa...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling687 - Rudyard Kipling
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Uncommon 3.5 x 5.25 postcard photo of Kipling in a head-and-shoulders pose taken by Henri Manuel, signed in the lower border in black ink. A few light
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Guy de Maupassant688 - Guy de Maupassant
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Boldly penned ANS in French, signed “Maupassant,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. A brief confirmation of a meeting. In part (translated): “It is understo
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Henry Miller689 - Henry Miller
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Unusual collection of eight items: three 5.5 x 8.5 cardstock photos and one postcard photo showing Miller in an adorable costume at the age of three-a
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell690 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5, postmarked December 13, 1943. Letter to Mrs. T. J. Busey of Fayettevil
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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