Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring John F. Kennedy

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RR Auction's November Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts over 750 rare and remarkable lots, including a stunning assortment of classical music autographs, special sections honoring President John F. Kennedy and King Tut discoverer Howard Carter, and a wealth of important letters from famous figures. Among the highlights are a significant handwritten musical manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven, an original sketch by Amedeo Modigliani, a signed example of the famous 'Dewey Defeats Truman' newspaper, and letters by Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Margaret Mitchell, Alexander Graham Bell, Bruce Lee, and Napoleon Bonaparte. 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 November 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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Michael Crichton Signed Photograph452 - Michael Crichton Signed Photograph
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Jurassic Park author in a head-and-shoulders pose, signed in black felt tip, "Michael Crichton." In fine condit...
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T. S. Eliot Signature453 - T. S. Eliot Signature
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "T. S. Eliot of St. Louis, 12.V.54,” on an off-white 5 x 3 Faber and Faber card. Triple-mat
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Signature454 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Signature
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Sought-after ink signature, "R. W. Emerson,” on an off-white 2 x .5 clipped slip, double-matted and framed with a portrait
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Anatole France Autograph Letter Signed455 - Anatole France Autograph Letter Signed
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French author (1844-1924) who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 7, Grand Continental Hotel, Cairo letterhead,
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German Writers (12) Signed Items456 - German Writers (12) Signed Items
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Collection of twelve items signed by German writers of the 19th and early 20th century, featuring dramatists, novelists, journalists, poets, and publi
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Allen Ginsberg Autograph Letter Signed457 - Allen Ginsberg Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, August 4, 1961. Handwritten letter to Larry Wallrich of the Phoenix Bookshop, explaining that he has no manuscripts to sel
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Signature458 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Signature
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Ink signature, "Examined, Nath. Hawthorne,” on an off-white 3.5 x 1.25 slip, impressively quadruple-matted and framed to an
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James Hilton Signed Photograph459 - James Hilton Signed Photograph
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Oscar-winning English novelist and screenwriter (1900–1954) whose works include Lost Horizon, Random Harvest, and Goodbye,
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L. Ron Hubbard Typed Letter Signed460 - L. Ron Hubbard Typed Letter Signed
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TLS signed “Ron,” one page, 7.25 x 9.25, personal letterhead, December 26, 1973. Letter to Jim W
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Naftali Herz Imber Signed Photograph461 - Naftali Herz Imber Signed Photograph
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Jewish Hebrew-language poet (1856‚Äì1909), most notable for writing ‚ÄòHatikvah,‚Ä
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Stephen King Signature462 - Stephen King Signature
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Ink signature and inscription, “For Thom—with best wishes—Stephen Kin
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Harper Lee Signed Photograph463 - Harper Lee Signed Photograph
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Scarce satin-finish 8 x 10 close-up photo of the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, signed in black felt tip, "Harper Lee." In ver...
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Lexicographers and Journalists (5) Signed Items464 - Lexicographers and Journalists (5) Signed Items
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Group lot of five items signed by a notable journalist or lexicographer, including: an ALS in French from Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hil
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Quotation Signed465 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Quotation Signed
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AQS on an off-white 6 x 3.25 sheet, signed at the conclusion in ink, "Henry W. Longfellow, April 1855." Longfellow pens the first stanza f...
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Thomas Mann Signature466 - Thomas Mann Signature
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Vintage blue ink signature, "Thomas Mann, 10 Juni 47,” on an off-white 7 x 10.5 card bearing an affixed glossy portrait of
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David McCullough Signed Book467 - David McCullough Signed Book
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Signed book: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1
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Jules Michelet Autograph Letter Signed468 - Jules Michelet Autograph Letter Signed
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French historian (1798-1874). ALS in French, signed “J. Michelet,” one page, 4 x 5.25, no date.
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Arthur Miller Signed Photograph and Signature469 - Arthur Miller Signed Photograph and Signature
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Two items: a glossy 10 x 8 photo of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe, taken by his wife Inge Morath (and bearing her Magnum Photos credit stamp on the rev
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Eugene O'Neill Signed Book470 - Eugene O'Neill Signed Book
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Signed book: Days Without End. First edition, limited issue, numbered 123/325. NY: Random House, 1934. Hardcover with slipcase, 7 x 10, 157 pages. Sig
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Philip Roth Signed Book471 - Philip Roth Signed Book
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Signed book: The Anatomy Lesson. First edition, limited issue, numbered 67/300. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8
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Scottish Authors (5) Autographs472 - Scottish Authors (5) Autographs
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Five handwritten pieces by 19th-century Scottish writers, including: poet Thomas Campbell (ALS); judge and literary critic Lord Francis Jeffrey (ALS);
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Maurice Sendak Signed Book473 - Maurice Sendak Signed Book
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Signed book: Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7 x 7, 69...
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Maurice Sendak Signed Book474 - Maurice Sendak Signed Book
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Signed book: The Sign on Rosie's Door. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7 x 9. Signed on the title page in...
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Maurice Sendak and Isaac Bashevis Singer Signed Book475 - Maurice Sendak and Isaac Bashevis Singer Signed Book
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Rare signed book: Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories. First edition, limited issue, numbered 250/500. NY: Harper & Row, 1966. Hardcover with slip...
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Dr. Seuss Signed Book476 - Dr. Seuss Signed Book
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Signed book: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. First edition, later printing. NY: The Vanguard Press, 1938. Hardcover, 9 x 12. Signed opposite the
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Dr. Seuss Signed Photograph477 - Dr. Seuss Signed Photograph
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Glossy 3.5 x 5 photo of children's author and cartoonist Theodor Geisel in a close-up pose, signed in the lower border in black felt tip, "...
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Samuel Francis Smith Autograph Quotation Signed478 - Samuel Francis Smith Autograph Quotation Signed
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Boston-born Baptist minister and academic (1808–1895) best known as the lyricist of ‘America
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Alfred Lord Tennyson Autograph Letter Signed479 - Alfred Lord Tennyson Autograph Letter Signed
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Third-person ALS, signed within the text, “Lord Tennyson,” one page, 4.5 x 7, black-bordered Far
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James Thurber Typed Letter Signed480 - James Thurber Typed Letter Signed
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American humorist and author (1894-1961) best known for such stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and for his distinctive, wittily captioned car
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Alexandra Tolstoy Signed Book481 - Alexandra Tolstoy Signed Book
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Youngest daughter (1884–1979) and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Signed book: The Tragedy of Tolstoy
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John Updike Signed Book482 - John Updike Signed Book
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Signed book: The Witches of Eastwick. First edition, limited issue, numbered 115/350. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.5,
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John Updike Signed Book483 - John Updike Signed Book
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Signed book: Rabbit Redux. First edition, limited issue, numbered 188/350. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.25, 407 pages.
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John Updike Signed Book484 - John Updike Signed Book
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Signed book: Problems. First edition, limited issue, numbered 255/350. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase, 5.5 x 8.25,
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Writers and Musicians485 - Writers and Musicians
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Vintage ink signatures of writers and musicians on both sides of three off-white 5 x 7 album pages (one on an affixed slip). Signers include: writers
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William Butler Yeats Signature486 - William Butler Yeats Signature
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "W. B. Yeats,” on the reverse of an off-white 5.5 x 3.5 membership card for the Society of
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Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed487 - Johann Sebastian Bach Document Signed
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Manuscript DS in German , signed ‚ÄúJ. S. Bach,‚Äù one page, 4 x 2, circa June‚Ä[x=
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Estimate : 150,000.00 - 250,000.00
 
 
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Ludwig van Beethoven Autograph Musical Manuscript488 - Ludwig van Beethoven Autograph Musical Manuscript
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Significant autograph musical manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven, unsigned, three pages on two 12 x 9 sheets, no date but circa 1798‚
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Estimate : 250,000.00 - 350,000.00
 
 
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Hector Berlioz Autograph Note Signed489 - Hector Berlioz Autograph Note Signed
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Scarce ANS in French, signed "H. Berlioz," one page, 3.5 x 4, no date. Handwritten letter to "Mon cher Lacombe," in full (transl...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Hector Berlioz Autograph Letter Signed490 - Hector Berlioz Autograph Letter Signed
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Influential French composer (1803-1869) of such repertory staples as the programmatic 'Symphonie fantastique' and the opera 'Les Troyens...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Leonard Bernstein Autograph Manuscript Signed491 - Leonard Bernstein Autograph Manuscript Signed
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AMS signed "Leonard Bernstein" (once) and "Bernstein" (three times), seven pages on four sheets, 6.5 x 8.5, January 7, 1935. Han...
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Georges Bizet Signature492 - Georges Bizet Signature
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French composer (1838–1875) whose operatic masterpiece, Carmen, was completed just before his untimely death from heart dis
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Johannes Brahms Signature493 - Johannes Brahms Signature
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Large and bold ink signature, "Johannes Brahms,” with date below, on an off-white 3.75 x 3 slip. Nicely archivally matted a
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso Signed Sketch494 - Enrico Caruso Signed Sketch
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Exquisite original self-portrait sketch accomplished in ink by Caruso on an off-white 5 x 6.5 sheet, signed in the lower right corner, "Enrico ...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Frederic Chopin Document Signed495 - Frederic Chopin Document Signed
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Choice partly-printed DS in French, signed “F. Chopin,” one page, 8 x 3.5, June 20, 1838. Receip
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg Signed Photograph with Musical Quotation496 - Edvard Grieg Signed Photograph with Musical Quotation
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Important Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907) whose works, often with a strong nationalistic flavor, include such repertory staples as the &#...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg Autograph Letter Signed497 - Edvard Grieg Autograph Letter Signed
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Important Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907) whose works, often with a strong nationalistic flavor, include such repertory staples as the &#...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg Autograph Letter Signed498 - Edvard Grieg Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS in German, one page, 5.5 x 3.5, postcard letterhead, March 31, 1893. Untranslated handwritten letter to E. W. Fritzsch in Leipzig, addressed on th
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Pietro Mascagni Autograph Musical Quotation Signed499 - Pietro Mascagni Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
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Italian composer (1863‚Äì1945) whose 1890 masterpiece ‚ÄòCavalleria rusticana‚Ä
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Giovanni Pacini Autograph Letter Signed500 - Giovanni Pacini Autograph Letter Signed
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Italian composer (1796‚Äì1867) known for his operas. ALS in French, signed ‚ÄúPacini,‚
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Giacomo Puccini Autograph Musical Quotation Signed501 - Giacomo Puccini Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
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Large and bold AMQS on an off-white 7.5 x 4.75 album page, prominently signed and dated below in ink, "Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago, 20.8.96...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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