Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Art

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RR Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is highlighted by a great selection of material from renowned artists, including Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Georges Braque, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Charles Schulz. Other highlights include a manuscript by Wilbur Wright, a fully signed Led Zeppelin II album, an important letter by Albert Einstein anticipating WWII, a handwritten letter by Malcolm X written from prison, and flown Robbins medallions from the collection of Apollo 17 moonwalker Gene Cernan. 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 April 2020.
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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Gustave Flaubert483 - Gustave Flaubert
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ALS in French, signed “Gu. Flaubert,” two pages, 5 x 8, no date. Letter to a friend, in full (translated): "Le Sexe Faible [The Weak Sex] must ...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo484 - Victor Hugo
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Boldly penned AQS on an 8 x 5.25 sheet, in full: "Aimer, c'est agir [To love is to act], Victor Hugo." Affixed to a same-size sheet an...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo485 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 5 x 8.25, May 7, [circa early 1860s]. Letter written from Hauteville House, in full (translated): "Could it be, madam,...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Franz Kafka486 - Franz Kafka
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Sought-after hand-addressed mailing envelope, 5.5 x 3.5, addressed by Kafka to his fiancée, “Fraulein, Felice Bauer, per Adr. Carl Lindstrom A....
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Charmian London487 - Charmian London
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Collection of 20 TLSs from Charmian London, dated between 1927 and 1931, the majority addressed to book dealer M. L. Herman regarding the acquisition
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jack London488 - Jack London
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 6.5, December 31, 1912. Letter to John A. Browne of the Vallejo Yacht Club, in full: "I had a lovely month's cruise. G...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Guy de Maupassant489 - Guy de Maupassant
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ALS in French, signed “Maupassant,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. Untranslated. In fine condition, with light creasing to the top and bottom edges.
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell490 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” one page, 7 x 11, April 9, 1936. Letter to W. Colston Leigh, in part: "I was unable to write until today....
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov491 - Vladimir Nabokov
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ALS in French, signed “V. Nabokov,” one page, 5 x 8.5, June 13, 1976. Letter written from Montreux, Switzerland, in full (translated): "Dear fr...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger492 - J. D. Salinger
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TLS signed “Jerry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, September 24, 1974. Letter to Eileen Paddison, in part: "I don't know the South well enough to reco...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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George Sand493 - George Sand
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, November 30, 1860. Untranslated. In fine condition, with separation along the hinge.
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre494 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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ALS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date but circa 1969. Letter to "My little Gerald," in part (translated): &...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Shel Silverstein495 - Shel Silverstein
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Unsigned first edition book: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. First edition, first printing. NY: Harper & Row, 1964. Hardcover with dust jac...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Alfred Lord Tennyson496 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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ALS signed “A. Tennyson,” one page, 4.25 x 7.25, postmarked July 5, 1847. Letter to Jane Scott, referencing his publisher Edward Moxon. In full: &qu...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy497 - Leo Tolstoy
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Tremendous 8.25 x 11.25 portrait of Leo Tolstoy dressed in a traditional belted tunic and seated in a half-length pose with his hands clasped together
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Emile Zola498 - Emile Zola
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ANS in French on both sides of one of his personal 4 x 2.5 calling cards, no date. Untranslated note mentioning an article about Stéphane Malla...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Emile Zola499 - Emile Zola
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ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, September 28, 1894. Letter to "Monsieur Meyer," about Bernadette Soubirous (Saint...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jules Verne500 - Jules Verne
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Highly desirable ALS in French, one page, 3.75 x 6, December 19, 1898. Letter mentioning his Voyages Extraordinaires, naming the forthcoming Le Testam
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Peter Benchley501 - Peter Benchley
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Signed book: Jaws. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 311 pages. Signed on the half-title page in b
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Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
 
 
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William S. Burroughs502 - William S. Burroughs
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Signed book: Die elektronische Revolution. Limited edition, numbered 052/100. Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1972. Softcover, 4.25 x 6.25, 111 pa
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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