RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

Auction Details

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
Choose Your Layout > Switch to Grid View Switch to List View
Julia Ward Howe518 - Julia Ward Howe
RR Auction
Signed book: Later Lyrics. First edition. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Company, 1866. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.5 x 7.75, 326 pages. Signed and inscr...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Victor Hugo519 - Victor Hugo
RR Auction
ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 6.75, no date. Letter to an unidentified recipient, thanking him for his letter and adding (translated): “With friends
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Langston Hughes520 - Langston Hughes
RR Auction
American poet, novelist, playwright, and activist in the Civil Rights movement, who became one of the best-known figures of the Harlem Renaissance of
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Yukio Mishima521 - Yukio Mishima
RR Auction
ALS, three pages, lightly-lined, 6.75 x 8.75, July 20, 1959. Letter to John Goodwin, in full: “Just a brief note for your inquiry. I could find the ex
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Margaret Mitchell522 - Margaret Mitchell
RR Auction
TLS, one page, 7 x 11, personal letterhead, August 22, 1936. Letter to psychiatrist Dr. Charles E. Mayos, in full: “Since my book 'Gone With The...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Margaret Mitchell523 - Margaret Mitchell
RR Auction
TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh (Mrs. John R. Marsh),” two pages, 7.5 x 10.5, personal letterhead, February 25, 1941. Letter to Helen Dortch Longs
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Samuel Pepys524 - Samuel Pepys
RR Auction
British civil servant (1633–1703) best remembered as the author of a nine-year, multi-volume diary, one of the essential documents of 17th-century Bri
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Emily Post525 - Emily Post
RR Auction
American author (1872–1960) who earned fame for her various books and columns on etiquette. Archive of correspondence material from Emily Post, consis
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Charles Perrault526 - Charles Perrault
RR Auction
French author (1628–1703) known for his development of the fairy tale genre. Scarce ANS in French, signed “Perrault,” one page, 6.5 x 1.75, no date. I
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
John Steinbeck527 - John Steinbeck
RR Auction
DS, eight pages, 8.5 x 11, June 11, 1963. Agreement between Steinbeck and David Merrick for a stage adaptation of the film Viva Zapata!, in which Stei
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
J. R. R. Tolkien528 - J. R. R. Tolkien
RR Auction
TLS, one page, 7 x 9, personal letterhead, April 17, 1967. Letter to J. D. Gilbert, in full: “Thank you very much for your charming letter which pleas
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Voltaire529 - Voltaire
RR Auction
LS in French, signed “Voltaire,” one page both sides, 6.75 x 9, April 12, 1754. Letter to Jesuit priest Joseph de Menoux. In full (translated): &quo...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Evelyn Waugh530 - Evelyn Waugh
RR Auction
Excellent collection of three items: a 1957 first edition hardcover of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, signed and inscribed on the first free end page
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Jules Verne531 - Jules Verne
RR Auction
ALS in French, one page, 4.25 x 5.25, August 2, 1903. Letter to his nephew Andre. In part (translated): "I received your two articles on Pasteu...
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
H. G. Wells532 - H. G. Wells
RR Auction
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 grammar retained): “Are yo
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Walt Whitman533 - Walt Whitman
RR Auction
ALS, one page both sides, 5.25 x 3, April 15, [1881]. Letter to the Staffords in New Jersey. In full: “Well here I am in a grand old hotel, the first
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Oscar Wilde534 - Oscar Wilde
RR Auction
Exquisite 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of Wilde in a seated pose circa 1884, signed and inscribed in ink, “Stuart Merrill, from his friend Oscar Wilde.
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Laura Ingalls Wilder535 - Laura Ingalls Wilder
RR Auction
ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 7.25, December 14, 1948. Letter to Mrs. Newman. In part: “It is nice to hear from you again and to kn
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Rainer Maria Rilke536 - Rainer Maria Rilke
RR Auction
ALS in German, signed “Rainer Maria,” one page both sides, 4.25 x 3.5, no date but circa November 1918. Bold letter to Miss Else Hotop. In full (trans
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark
Isaac Asimov537 - Isaac Asimov
RR Auction
TLS, one page, 8.5 x 5.5, personal letterhead, April 3, 1967. Letter to Maggie Rose, in full: “Your description of the other ‘intellectual’ groups is
No Online Bidding For This Lot
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
Details...Bookmark