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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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The Authors Club538 - The Authors Club
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Hardcover program, 5 x 7, 10 pages, for the Tenth Anniversary of the Author’s Club, held at the Hotel St. Denis on February 28, 1893. Signed inside by
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Ray Bradbury539 - Ray Bradbury
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Signed book: Dandelion Wine. First edition. NY: Doubleday, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 281 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first
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Truman Capote540 - Truman Capote
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Signed book: One Christmas. Limited first edition, numbered 133/500. NY: Random House, 1983. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.75, 41 pages. Signed on
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Giosue Carducci541 - Giosue Carducci
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Influential Italian poet (1835–1907) regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906. ALS
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Willa Cather542 - Willa Cather
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Signed book: A Lost Lady. First edition, limited issue, numbered 38/200. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Hardcover, 6 x 9.5, 174 pages. Signed on the colop
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Raymond Chandler543 - Raymond Chandler
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TLS signed “Ray,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, June 25, 1953. Letter to “Swanie,” his agent H. N. Swanson, concerning the plagiarism of hi
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Richard Condon544 - Richard Condon
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Signed book: The Manchurian Candidate. First edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 311 pages. Prominently signed on
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Samuel L. Clemens545 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Ink signature, “Mark Twain,” on an off-white 2.5 x 1.25 slip. In fine condition.
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Gustave Dore546 - Gustave Dore
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Untranslated ALS in French, signed “G. Dore,” one page, 5 x 8, no date. Affixed by its adjoining sheet to a larger scrapbook page bearing a collector’
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Theodore Dreiser547 - Theodore Dreiser
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ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 6.25, 165 West 10 Street letterhead, August 30, 1915. Letter of condolence to the widow of Edwin Marti
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Paul Heyse548 - Paul Heyse
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German writer and translator (1830–1914) who wrote novels, poetry, and short stories and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910. Matte-fin
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr549 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” one page, 3.75 x 6, March 18, 1892. In full: “It gives me pleasure to comply with your slight request.” Encapsulat
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Julia Ward Howe550 - Julia Ward Howe
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Desirable 3.75 x 5.5 portrait of the famed abolitionist and poet by J. E. Purdy and Co. of Boston, affixed to its original studio mount, signed on the
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Langston Hughes551 - Langston Hughes
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Signed book: Freedom’s Plow. Third printing. NY: Musette Publishers, 1946. Paperback, 5.25 x 8.5, 14 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the copyrig
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Ken Kesey552 - Ken Kesey
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Two signed books: a first edition copy of The Seal Lion, hardcover with dust jacket, signed and inscribed on an opening page in red felt tip, “For Joe
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Stephen King553 - Stephen King
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Signed book: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. First edition. NY: Scribner, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 288 pages. Signed on the f
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D. H. Lawrence554 - 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 London. I h
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow555 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 6.5, Cambridge, December 20, 1865. In full: “It gives me great pleasure to comply with y
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Norman Mailer556 - Norman Mailer
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Glossy 10 x 8 Cannon publicity photo of Mailer on the set of the 1987 film Tough Guys Don’t Dance, signed and inscribed in blue ink, “To Larry Raffert
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Larry McMurtry557 - Larry McMurtry
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Five hardcover first editions, each signed in ink on the first free end page or title page by McMurtry, including: Anything for Billy; All My Friends
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