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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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Alfred Douglas742 - Alfred Douglas
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British writer (1870–1945) who first came to prominence in the 1890s as the young intimate companion of Oscar Wilde. ALS, one page, 7 x 8.75, St. Ann’
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French Authors743 - French Authors
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Collection of seven items signed by French writers, including: Georges Courteline (ALS praising Mark Twain); Alexandre Dumas, pere (signature and salu
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Robert Frost744 - Robert Frost
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Bold fountain pen signature, “Robert Frost,” on the 6 x 9.5 colophon removed from a limited edition of In The Clearing, numbered 840/1500. In fine con
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Erle Stanley Gardner745 - Erle Stanley Gardner
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Signed book: The Land of Shorter Shadows. First edition. NY: William Morrow & Company, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 228 pages. S...
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Edmond de Goncourt746 - Edmond de Goncourt
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French writer (1822–1896) and founder of the Academie Goncourt and creator of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize. Untranslate
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Graham Greene747 - Graham Greene
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Signed book: A Quick Look Behind. Limited edition, numbered 46/300. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.75 x 9.7...
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H. Rider Haggard748 - H. Rider Haggard
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Prolific British novelist (1856–1925) best known for such adventure fare as King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quatermain. Uncommon 3.5 x 5.5 postcard pho
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Alex Haley749 - Alex Haley
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Signed book: Roots. First edition. limited issue, numbered 340/500. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.5, 587 pages. S
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Seamus Heaney750 - Seamus Heaney
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Signed book: Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir. First limited edition, numbered 445/2000. NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover with slipcase
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow751 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ink signature, “Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow,” on an off-white 4 x 1.5 slip. Handsomely cloth-matted and framed with an engraved portrait to an ov
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Eugene O’Neill752 - Eugene O’Neill
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Signed book: Lazarus Laughed. Limited edition of 775 copies (this being number 484). NY: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Hardcover, 6 x 9.25, 179 pages. Sig
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Dr. Seuss753 - Dr. Seuss
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Signed book: The Cat in the Hat. NY: Random House, 1957. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 61 pages. Signed and inscribed on the reverse of the first free end pa
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Georges Simenon754 - Georges Simenon
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Belgian author (1903–1989) best known for his Inspector Maigret detective novels. Glossy 4 x 5.75 photo of the author lighting his pipe, signed in bla
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Bram Stoker and Henry Irving755 - Bram Stoker and Henry Irving
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LS signed “Henry Irving,” written in the hand of his secretary, Dracula author Bram Stoker, one page, 5 x 8, Lyceum Theatre letterhead, July 25, 1893.
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James Thurber756 - James Thurber
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Signed book: A Thurber Garland. First edition. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Hardcover, 5.5 x 4.25, 30 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free
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Edgar Wallace757 - Edgar Wallace
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Two TLSs, one signed “Very sincerely, Edgar Wallace” and the other “Edgar Wallace,” both one page, 31 Portland Place letterhead, dated November 16, 19
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H. G. Wells758 - H. G. Wells
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ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Spade House, Sandgate letterhead, July 10, 1905. Letter to Harris, in part: “All these things are of
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Thornton Wilder759 - Thornton Wilder
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ALS signed “T. N.,” four pages on two sheets, 6 x 7, Deepwood Drive letterhead, July 11, 1970. Letter to author James Leo Herlihy, in part: “Two weeks
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Tennessee Williams760 - Tennessee Williams
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TLS signed “Tom,” one page, 8.5 x 11, no date. Letter to Jim, in full: “A well-deserved feeling of shame has made me hesitant about asking you if you’
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William Butler Yeats761 - William Butler Yeats
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Crisp fountain pen signature, “W. B. Yeats,” on the 5.5 x 9.25 colophon removed from a limited edition of The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Y
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