Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Animation

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RR Auction's December Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings over 1,000 items to the auction block. A special animation section features production cels from a number of Disney classics, plus concept paintings by legendary artists Mary Blair and Eyvind Earle. Other important entertainment artifacts are Madonna's 1987 MTV VMA Award for 'Papa Don't Preach' and an Emmy Award for the Ernie Kovacs specials of the 1960s. Sports treasures include multiple Babe Ruth lots, a milestone game-used Pete Rose bat, and other high-grade vintage baseball cards. Not to be overlooked are significant autographs from Vincent van Gogh, King Henry VIII, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and a variety of other iconic figures. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in December 2022.
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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Gunter Grass Signed Book1542 - Gunter Grass Signed Book
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Signed book: The Tin Drum. First American edition. NY: Pantheon Books, 1962. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 591 pages. Signed in black
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Robert Graves Autograph Letter Signed1543 - Robert Graves Autograph Letter Signed
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English poet, translator, and novelist (1895-1985). ALS, one page, 8 x 13, February 14, 1927. Handwritten letter from the 32-year-old to fellow poet H
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Jim Harrison Signed Book1544 - Jim Harrison Signed Book
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Signed book: Legends of the Fall. First edition. NY: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 276 pages. Sig
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Document Signed1545 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Document Signed
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Partly-printed DS, signed “Nath. Hawthorne,” one page, 7.5 x 6.5, November 22, 1853. As consul of the United Sta...
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Hermann Hesse Signed Photograph (with Autograph Letter Signed on reverse)1546 - Hermann Hesse Signed Photograph (with Autograph Letter Signed on reverse)
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Vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.75 close-up photo of Hermann Hesse in profile, signed and inscribed in German in fountain pen, "H. Hesse, gruss fur,...
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James Hilton Signed Photograph1547 - James Hilton Signed Photograph
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Oscar-winning English novelist and screenwriter (1900-1954) whose works include Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Uncommon matte-finish 8 x 10 phot
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Stephen King and Lawrence Block Signed Book1548 - Stephen King and Lawrence Block Signed Book
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Signed book: The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block. Limited first hardcover edition, numbered 47/400. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1
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Stephen King Signed Photograph1549 - Stephen King Signed Photograph
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Glossy 5 x 7 close-up photo of the reigning, undisputed king of horror fiction, signed and inscribed in the lower border in blue felt tip, "To ...
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Rudyard Kipling Signed Book1550 - Rudyard Kipling Signed Book
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Signed book: Sea and Sussex. First edition, limited issue, numbered 30/150. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1926. Hardcover, 9 x 11.5, 94 pages. Signed on
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Elmore Leonard (2) Signed Books1551 - Elmore Leonard (2) Signed Books
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Two limited edition copies of Elmore Leonard’s novel The Big Bounce, both hardcovers (with Carolyn Penzler portraits) and slipcase...
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Elmore Leonard (4) Signed Books1552 - Elmore Leonard (4) Signed Books
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Four uncommon books signed by Elmore Leonard: A late-stage galley proof of the first edition of Rum Punch, published by Delacorte Press in 1992, soft
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Lord John Press Multi-Signed Book: King, Updike, Bradbury, and more1553 - Lord John Press Multi-Signed Book: King, Updike, Bradbury, and more
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Signed book: Lord John Signatures. Limited edition, numbered 102/150. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991. Hardcover with slipcase, 10.75 x
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Bernard Malamud: First Edition of The Natural1554 - Bernard Malamud: First Edition of The Natural
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Unsigned first edition of Bernard Malamud's debut novel: The Natural. First edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Hardcover with dust ...
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Thomas Mann1555 - Thomas Mann
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Highly influential, Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and social critic (1875-1955). Ink signature, "Thomas Mann, 8.I.22," on an off-whi...
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Walter Mosley (2) Signed Books1556 - Walter Mosley (2) Signed Books
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Two early copies of Devil in a Blue Dress, the debut novel by Walter Mosley—a first edition published by W. W. Norton & Compan...
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Heaney, Lessing, and Milosz (7) Signed Items1557 - Nobel Prize in Literature: Heaney, Lessing, and Milosz (7) Signed Items
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Seven items signed by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including: Seamus Heaney (signature), Czeslaw Milosz (two TLSs, greeting card, and SP)
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Tim O'Brien Signed Book1558 - Tim O'Brien Signed Book
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Signed book: Northern Lights. First edition. NY: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 356 pages. Signed a
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Sean O'Casey Signed Photograph1559 - Sean O'Casey Signed Photograph
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Rare pearl-finish 7.75 x 9.5 portrait of O'Casey smoking a pipe, signed in fountain pen, "Yours sincerely, Sean O'Casey." In very ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Joyce Carol Oates and Larry McMurtry (3) Signed Books1560 - Joyce Carol Oates and Larry McMurtry (3) Signed Books
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Three books: A first edition of The Movie That Changed My Life: Edited by David Rosenberg, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Viking in 1991,
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Otto Penzler (2) Signed Books1561 - Otto Penzler (2) Signed Books
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Two first edition books edited by Otto Penzler—The Great Detectives (1978) and Whodunit? Houdini: Thirteen Tales of Magic, Murder,...
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