RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction featuring Founding Fathers

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Headlined by a robust Revolutionary War section in celebration of Independence Day, RR Auction’s July 2017 Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale boasts over 800 lots of collectibles from an array of genres. Opening with a pair of remarkable Revolutionary War amputation kits used by Dr. John Warren, the first section traces the history of the founding of America from William Penn to George Washington. Key items from other categories include a set of Donald Trump’s personally-owned and -used golf clubs, a rare portrait of Thomas Edison with an inscription about the “electric vehicle,” a chair from Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca, and an incredible autograph letter by Ernest Hemingway. 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 July 2017.
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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Jiminy Cricket production cel460 - Jiminy Cricket production cel
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(Walt Disney Studios, 1950s) Original production cel featuring Jiminy Cricket from a Disney cartoon, showing him happily strolling along. Image measur
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Walter Lantz461 - Walter Lantz
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Limited edition serigraph cel featuring Woody Woodpecker, Winnie Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Charlie Beary, Chilly Willy, Splinter and Knothead, Wally Wal
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Sebastian production cel from The Little Mermaid462 - Sebastian production cel from The Little Mermaid
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(Walt Disney Studios, 1989) Original production cel featuring Sebastian from The Little Mermaid. Image measures 10 x 6.25, with a mat opening of 12 x
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Peanuts463 - Peanuts
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Original hand-painted animation cels of Snoopy being fed by Charlie Brown, who holds his nose as he pours dog food into a bowl. The four untrimmed cel
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Raggedy Andy production cel from Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy464 - Raggedy Andy production cel from Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
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(Fleischer Studios, 1941) Rare original production cel featuring Raggedy Andy from Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, showing him in a full-figure pose. Im
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Tony Sarg465 - Tony Sarg
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German-American puppeteer and illustrator (1880-1942). Original signed ink and wash sketch of a surprised-looking elephant on an off-white 6.75 x 6 sh
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz466 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: A New Peanuts Book Featuring Snoopy. First edition. NY: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1958. Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75. Signed on the title pag...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz467 - Charles Schulz
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Highly amusing color artist proof print of a 1995 cartoon sketch by Charles Schulz entitled 'The Mongoose,' numbered AP 50, showing golfer S...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz468 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: You're Out of Your Mind, Charlie Brown! First edition. NY: Rinehart & Co., 1959. Softcover, 8 x 5.25. Signed and inscribed on t...
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Charles Schulz469 - Charles Schulz
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USGA booklet entitled "A Call to Feet, Golf Is a Walking Game," 4 x 6.25, 16 pages. Signed on the front cover in black felt tip, "Cha...
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Charles Schulz470 - Charles Schulz
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TLS signed "Sparky," one page, 8.5 x 11, National D-Day Memorial Foundation letterhead, May 15, 1999. Letter to Ed McGeean. In part: "...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz471 - Charles Schulz
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TLS signed "Charles M. Schulz," one page, 7.25 x 11, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates letterhead, May 3, 1996. In full: "I don&#...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz472 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: I Need All the Friends I Can Get. San Francisco, CA: Determined Productions, 1964. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 5.75, 58 pages. Sig
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Pluto and Fifi production cel from Society Dog Show473 - Pluto and Fifi production cel from Society Dog Show
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(Walt Disney Studios, 1939) Original production cel featuring Pluto and Fifi from Society Dog Show. The cel has been trimmed and applied to a hand-pai
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Tom and Jerry production cel and production background from Touche, Pussy Cat!474 - Tom and Jerry production cel and production background from Touche, Pussy Cat!
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(Hanna-Barbera Studios, 1954) Original production cel and production background featuring Tom and Jerry from Touche, Pussy Cat!, showing Tom looking o
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Bugs Bunny production drawing from The Unmentionables475 - Bugs Bunny production drawing from The Unmentionables
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(Warner Brothers Studios, 1963) Original production drawing featuring Bugs Bunny from The Unmentionables, showing him disguised in a 1920 flapper-styl
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Mickey Mouse production drawing from Ye Olden Days476 - Mickey Mouse production drawing from Ye Olden Days
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(Walt Disney Studios, 1933) Impeccably detailed original production drawing featuring Mickey Mouse from Ye Olden Days, showing Mickey as the wandering
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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British Writers477 - British Writers
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Three small limited edition enameled boxes made by Halcyon Days in Bilston, England: a pill box honoring the bicentenary of the birth of Lord Byron in
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Robert Burns478 - Robert Burns
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Partly-printed DS, signed “Rob’t Burns,” one page, 6 x 4, March 1, 1793. An official document filled out by Burns as the exciseman for Dumfries, Scotl
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Estimate : 8,500.00 - 9,500.00
 
 
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Lord Byron479 - Lord Byron
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Free franked address panel, 3.75 x 2.75, addressed by Byron, “London, January seventh, Revd. W. Manning, Diss., Norfolk,” and franked in the lower lef
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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James Fenimore Cooper480 - James Fenimore Cooper
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AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 sheet. Cooper pens a quote from chapter 16 of his work The Headsman, in full: “‘Silenus rolled from his ass, to the grea
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens481 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, Tavistock House, January 6, 1854. Brief letter to Sir James Emerson Tennent, in full: “You may rely on me most implicitly.” I
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle482 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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Very desirable ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 4.5 x 7, 12, Tennison Road letterhead, June 3, 1894. Letter to author John Reid, in full: &quo...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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T. S. Eliot483 - T. S. Eliot
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Faber & Faber letterhead, August 23, 1932. Letter to Terence Holliday, in part: "I assure you that I have every conf...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming484 - Ian Fleming
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TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian,” one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, September 11, 1962. Letter to Albert D. Cohen, in full: “Thank you very much inde
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming485 - Ian Fleming
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TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian Fleming,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, March 30, 1950. Letter to journalist and spy Antony Terry
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Kate Greenaway486 - Kate Greenaway
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British children's author and illustrator (1846-1901) whose distinctively illustrated books were among the most popular 'juvenile' works...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway487 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS signed "Ernest," three pages, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, February 7, 1953. Letter to Charles Poore, a New York Times literary c...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Washington Irving488 - Washington Irving
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ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 10, December 31, 1836. Letter to Pierre Irving, in part: "I am happy to hear that Theodore is mak...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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James Joyce489 - James Joyce
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ALS, one page, 5.25 x 6.75, Victoria Place Hotel letterhead, May 3, 1924. Letter to Miss Russell, in full: "Will you please please excuse Lucia...
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Estimate : 4,500.00 - 5,500.00
 
 
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James Joyce490 - James Joyce
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Signed book: Anna Livia Plurabelle. Limited edition edition, numbered 730/800. NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Hardcover, 4.75 x 7, 61 pages. Crisply signed o
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence491 - D. H. Lawrence
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ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, January 9, 1926. Letter to his publisher Curtis Brown, in full: "I expect this will catch you before you leave Lond...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Harper Lee492 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Nelle Harper Lee,” one page, 5.75 x 7.75, December 11, 1993. Letter to Don Salter, in full: "Thank you, as always, for remembering ...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Jack London493 - Jack London
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Two items: a TLS, one page, 7.5 x 3.75, September 7, 1905, addressed to Mrs. Wishaar, in full: "Please find herewith photograph requested, and ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow494 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed "Henry W. Longfellow," one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, November 5, 1878. In full: "It would give me pleasure to comply with ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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A. A. Milne495 - A. A. Milne
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British author (1882–1956) who, despite a large body of novels, plays, and other 'adult' writings, will forever be most closely associated w...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Sean O'Casey496 - Sean O'Casey
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ALS signed “Sean,” one page both sides, 7 x 9, personal letterhead, January 27, 1958. Letter to Lewis Funke, drama editor at the New York Times. In pa
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Frederic Mistral497 - Frederic Mistral
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French poet (1830-1914) who shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. ALS in French, signed "F. Mistral," four pages on two adjoining she...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Mario Puzo498 - Mario Puzo
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Signed book: The Godfather. First edition. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969. Hardcover with later-issue price-clipped dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 446 pages. Sig
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Rainer Maria Rilke499 - Rainer Maria Rilke
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AQS in German, one page, 8.75 x 5.5, February 1, 1907. In full (translated): "Basically, there's only one form of existence: Becoming. God,...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Carl Sandburg500 - Carl Sandburg
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DS, three pages, 8.5 x 11, March 31, 1950. Official letter addressed to Sandburg by Carl Haverlin, affirming that Harcourt, Brace and Company and Broa
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Samuel Francis Smith501 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Boston-born Baptist minister and academic (1808-1895) best known as the lyricist of 'America' ('My Country, 'Tis of Thee'), writ...
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Bram Stoker502 - Bram Stoker
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Irish author (1847-1912) best known for his horror classic Dracula. ALS, one page, 4.75 x 8, March 29, 1894, Lyceum Theatre letterhead. In part: &qu...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Harriet Beecher Stowe503 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Lengthy AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 7.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion, "Harriet Beecher Stowe, April 25, 1892." Stowe quotes from the pref...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Noah Webster504 - Noah Webster
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ALS signed "N. Webster," one page, 7.75 x 9.75, April 24, 1841. Letter to Gideon Hawley in Albany. In full: "Mr. Medfield, the bearer...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Noah Webster505 - Noah Webster
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Author and lexicographer (1758-1843) who published the first comprehensive dictionary of American English. ALS signed “N. Webster, j'nr,” 6.25 x...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells506 - H. G. Wells
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Two ALSs: ALS signed "Wells," two pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8, June 3, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In part (spelling and gra...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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E. B. White507 - E. B. White
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American essayist, humorist, author, and editor (1899-1985) best known for his longtime association with the New Yorker magazine and for his best-sell
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman508 - Walt Whitman
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Large and bold ink signature, “Walt Whitman,” on an off-white 6.5 x 3 sheet. Attractively double-matted and framed with a portrait of Whitman and a pl
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Thomas Wolfe509 - Thomas Wolfe
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Signed book: Look Homeward Angel. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 626 pages. Signed and inscribed on ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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