Auction Details
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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708Philip K. DickRR Auction
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
709Charles DickensRR Auction
Coutts & Company bank check, 7.25 x 3.25, neatly filled out and signed by Dickens, "Charles Dickens," payable to Mess'rs Woodrow &...
710Alexandre Dumas, pereRR Auction
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
711Allen GinsbergRR Auction
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
712Victor HugoRR Auction
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...
713Ernest HemingwayRR Auction
Desirable unsigned book: The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright
714Victor HugoRR Auction
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.
715Jack LondonRR Auction
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
716W. Somerset MaughamRR Auction
Signed book: Of Human Bondage. First illustrated edition, limited issue, numbered 748/751. NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Clothbound hard...
717Jack LondonRR Auction
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, ...