Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Civil War

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With over 1,000 lots up for bidding, our May Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is the biggest thus far in 2020. Highlights include a book boldly signed by Mao Tse-Toung, a rare handwritten letter by Sun Yat-sen, a letter by Karl Marx concerning the publication of Das Kapital in translation, a letter by Claude Monet about Queen Victoria's state funeral, and a battlefield message from the Revolutionary War's 'Swamp Fox,' Francis Marion. A special Civil War section boasts the thoroughbred racing saddle of George Custer, and autographs of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, and more. 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 May 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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Philip K. Dick708 - Philip K. Dick
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Unusual and rare green 5.25 x 4.25 hotel door hanger turned into a makeshift postcard to Jon White, postmarked in September 1964, signed on the revers
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Charles Dickens709 - Charles Dickens
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Coutts & Company bank check, 7.25 x 3.25, neatly filled out and signed by Dickens, "Charles Dickens," payable to Mess'rs Woodrow &...
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Alexandre Dumas, pere710 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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ALS in French, signed “A. Dumas,” one page, 5.5 x 8, no date. Letter to his publisher Hippolyte Souverain, imploring the man to send
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Allen Ginsberg711 - Allen Ginsberg
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ALS signed “Allen,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 23, 1971. Letter to Sol Zaentz, Ralph J. Gleason, and Al Bendich of Fantasy Records
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Victor Hugo712 - Victor Hugo
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ALS, one page, 5 x 8, September 10, 1869. Letter written from Hauteville House, in full (translated): "I find, gentlemen, on my return to Guern...
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Ernest Hemingway713 - Ernest Hemingway
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Desirable unsigned book: The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright
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Victor Hugo714 - Victor Hugo
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AQS in French on a 12.25 x 9.25 off-white cardstock sheet, signed and inscribed along the bottom in ink by Hugo, adding the date of December 16, 1876.
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Jack London715 - Jack London
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Two items: six pages from the galley proof for London’s classic 1911 work The Cruise of the Snark with several pencil edits throughout, 9.25
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W. Somerset Maugham716 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Signed book: Of Human Bondage. First illustrated edition, limited issue, numbered 748/751. NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Clothbound hard...
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Jack London717 - Jack London
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 7, stamp-dated June 20, 1905. Letter to C. Callup, in full: "You put your case very well, but you put my case very well, ...
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Lord Byron718 - Lord Byron
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Free franked address panel, 4.5 x 3.25, addressed by Byron, “London, March twenty eighth, 1819, Rev'd T. Dolby, Castle Donnington, Loughbo...
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George Bernard Shaw719 - George Bernard Shaw
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Vintage 3 x 4.25 photo of Shaw in his earlier days affixed to a 4 x 6 mount, signed on the mount in fountain pen, "G. Bernard Shaw, 20/2/30, ve...
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Oscar Wilde720 - Oscar Wilde
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Scarce and sought-after pencil signature, "Oscar Wilde,” on an off-white 3 x 1.25 slip. Mounted, matted, and framed with a portrait of th...
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William Butler Yeats721 - William Butler Yeats
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ALS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 7.75 x 4.25, Riversdale letterhead, June 20, 1935. Letter to a gentleman, in full: "I thank you
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Jean-Paul Sartre722 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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ALS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” two pages, 5.25 x 7, 23, Avenue de Lamballe letterhead, no date [1938]. In full (translated):
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H. G. Wells723 - H. G. Wells
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ALS, one page, 7 x 9, 13 Hanover Terrace letterhead, August 22, 1941. Letter to British writer and linguist Charles Kay Ogden, in part: "I don&...
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Emile Zola724 - Emile Zola
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ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8, August 4, 1889. Letter to painter Numa Coste, in full (loosely translated): "Did yo...
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Oscar Wilde725 - Oscar Wilde
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ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Albemarle Club letterhead, no date but circa 1893–1894. Letter concerning the production of h
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Theodore de Banville726 - Theodore de Banville
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Three ALSs in French, totaling four pages on three sheets, dated from 1862 to 1889. One, in part (translated): "I justly have too high an opini...
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Peter Benchley727 - Peter Benchley
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Brad-bound souvenir final draft script for the classic 1975 thriller Jaws, 113 pages, 8.5 x 11, signed and inscribed on the front cover in blue ink,...
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Henry Bordeaux728 - Henry Bordeaux
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Seven untranslated ALSs in French by Henry Bordeaux, totaling twelve pages on eight sheets, dated from 1919 to 1933. In overall fine condition. Accomp
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Paul Bourget729 - Paul Bourget
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Collection of five ALSs by Paul Bourget, plus an ink signature and one of his personal calling cards with a handwritten note. One letter, in part (tra
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Paul Bourget730 - Paul Bourget
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Vintage matte-finish 6 x 7.75 portrait of Bourget in a near-profile pose, affixed to a 7.25 x 9.5 mount, signed on the mount in fountain pen, "...
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Ray Bradbury731 - Ray Bradbury
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, September 7, 1975. Letter to Evelyn Greenwald, in part: "The poem you ask about, The Last Briton,...
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Gamaliel Bradford732 - Gamaliel Bradford
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Collection of seven TLSs by Gamaliel Bradford, each one page, dated from 1919 to 1930. Bradford discusses publishing and his work. One letter, in part
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British Writers733 - British Writers
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Four items signed by British writers, including: a one-pence banknote, signed by Noel Coward and Sybil Thorndike; a check filled out and signed by Tom
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Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand734 - Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
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LS in French, signed “Chateaubriand,” one page, 8 x 11.75, April 13, 1824. Untranslated letter to "Monsieur le Baron," forward...
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Alphonse Daudet735 - Alphonse Daudet
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Group lot of six ALSs in French, all untranslated, signed either "Alph. Daudet" or "Alphonse Daudet," each one page in length, e...
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Robert Frost736 - Robert Frost
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Signed book: The Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Second printing. NY: Halcyon House, 1939. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 8.75, 432 pages. Signed
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr737 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 5.75, December 18, 1878. Letter to Miss Richardson, in
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Langston Hughes738 - Langston Hughes
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "Langston Hughes,” on an off-white 5.75 x 1.5 slip, nicely matted and framed with a portrait and plaque t...
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Washington Irving739 - Washington Irving
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ALS, one page, 7.25 x 9.5, May 14, 1844. Written from Madrid, Spain, a letter to landscape painter Edwin Landseer, in part: "I take the liberty...
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Harper Lee740 - Harper Lee
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed in green felt tip, "With my best wishes, Harper Lee." The opening of To Kill a Mockingbird...
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Harper Lee741 - Harper Lee
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Scarce glossy 8 x 10 close-up photo of the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, signed in black felt tip by Harper Lee. In fine condition.
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Maurice Maeterlinck742 - Maurice Maeterlinck
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ALS in French, signed “M. Maeterlinck,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, March 18, 1902. Letter concerning an "introduc
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Newspaper Publishers and Journalists743 - Newspaper Publishers and Journalists
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Collection of 12 items signed by newspaper publishers, editors, and journalists, including: Adolph S. Ochs (two signatures), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (s
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Eugene O'Neill744 - Eugene O'Neill
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Ink signature, “With all good wishes, Eugene O’Neill, Sept. 1949,” on an off-white 4.75 x 6.75 album page with affixed capt
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Maurice Pernot745 - Maurice Pernot
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Autograph manuscript in French, signed "Marucei Pernot," seven pages, 8.25 x 10.5, circa 1930. An untranslated article entitled "Gand...
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Mario Puzo746 - Mario Puzo
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ALS signed “Mario F. Puzo,” one page, 8.5 x 11, July 16, 1965. Letter to Ernest Manfred, in full: "Thank you very much for your very
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Salman Rushdie747 - Salman Rushdie
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Signed book: The Satanic Verses. First edition. London: Viking Press, 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 547 pages. Signed and inscribed on
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Carl Sandburg748 - Carl Sandburg
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Appealing typescript signed by Carl Sandburg, one page, 5 x 7.5, concerning Abraham Lincoln and his referencing of the Declaration of Independence, in
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Maurice Sendak749 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. 25th Anniversary Edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.25 x 9.25. Signed and inscri
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George Bernard Shaw750 - George Bernard Shaw
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Westminster Bank Limited check, 5.75 x 3, filled out and signed by Shaw, "G. Bernard Shaw," payable to W. H. Smith & Son for £9.4...
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Gary Snyder751 - Gary Snyder
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Signed book: Passage Through India. First edition. San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983. Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 100 pages. Signed and inscribed on the t
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Bram Stoker752 - Bram Stoker
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Pencil signature of Bram Stoker on the reverse of an off-white 4 x 7.5 Delmonicos dinner menu dated March 16, 1902, also signed by actor Henry Irving,
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Alfred Lord Tennyson753 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Manuscript check, 7 x 4.5, filled out in another hand and signed by Tennyson, "A. Tennyson," payable to William Beach for £16.18, May...
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Erich Von Däniken754 - Erich Von Däniken
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Three color 8.5 x 11 heavy paperstock photos signed in red or blue felt tip by Erich Von Däniken, with images including: an advertisement for
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Tennessee Williams755 - Tennessee Williams
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Chase National Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Williams, "Tennessee Williams, special account," payable to Shelton Hotel...
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Tom Wolfe756 - Tom Wolfe
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Signed book: The Right Stuff. First edition. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 436 pages. Signed on the half-t
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Israel Zangwill757 - Israel Zangwill
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ALS signed “I. Zangwill,” penned on both sides of a 4.5 x 3.5 Norfolk Square, Hyde Park stationery card, no date. In part: "A line i
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