RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

Important Swedish novelist and playwright (1849–1912) who takes a place among the most influential figures in the development of modern theater. Uncom

Uncommon matte-finish 3.75 x 5.75 postcard photo of Thomas standing next to American anthologist and poet Oscar Williams, the latter of whom pens an A

Untranslated ALS in French, one page, 5 x 8, April 18, 1839. Untranslated. Reverse of the second integral page addressed in Tocqueville’s own hand. In

Exceptional ink signature, “Leo Tolstoy,” on an off-white 5.25 x 3.5 album page affixed to a slightly larger cardstock sheet. In fine condition.

Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist (1896–1963). Signed book: Le Fruit Permis. First edition. Paris: L'Imprime...

ALS in French, one page, 4 x 5.25, July 10, 1886. Response to an admirer. In full (translated): "Here sir are the few lines you requested. A se...

Scarce ALS in French, signed “le vieux malade Voltaire votre ancien serviteur [the old sick Voltaire, your old servant],” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7

Signed book: Breakfast of Champions. Collector’s edition. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 295 pages. Signed on the colophon i

ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 5.5, June 7, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In full: “We shall arrive, in our best clothes & behaviour, with tick...

Unsigned transmittal envelope from Wells to H. E. Hadley, 4.75 x 3.5, addressed in Wells’s hand, “Hadley F.R.S., Physics,” with a note in the upper ri

Two items: a TLS signed “W. C. Williams,” one page, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, November 28, 1960, in part: “Thank you very much for the treatments yo

Influential American writer (1900–1938) known for his poetic autobiographical fiction, best remembered for the 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel. His li

Three items: an Otsego County Bank check, 5.75 x 2, filled out and signed by James Fenimore Cooper, “J. Fenimore Cooper,” payable to Latton & Co...

Five items: a TLS from Edgar Rice Burroughs, signed “Burroughs,” personal letterhead, September 10, 1931, in part: “It was kind of you to say that you

Signed book: Fahrenheit 451. Limited edition, numbered 445/2000. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover with slipcase, 7.25 x 11.5, 152 pages. Sig

Two ALSs, both signed “W. C. Bryant,” each one page, 4 x 6 and 5 x 8, July 31, 1854, and February 22, 1870. The earliest, a letter to a publisher, in

ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, December 25, 1901. Letter to a “little girl from India,” in part: “I certainly have not forgotten you...

Ink signature, “Very truly yours, Wilkie Collins, April 20th, 1876,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 slip. In fine condition.

Two items: a vintage matte-finish 7.5 x 9.5 bust-length photo of Coward, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, “For Joan Henrion,

Signed book: Santa Claus. Second printing. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. Hardcover, 7.75 x 11, 18 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free en