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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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Arthur Miller558 - Arthur Miller
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Signed book: Death of a Salesman. Limited illustrated edition, numbered 106/500. NY: Viking Press, 1981. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.5, 139 page
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Dorothy Parker559 - Dorothy Parker
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Signed book: After Such Pleasures. Limited first edition, numbered 186/250. NY: Viking Press, 1933. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.75, 232 pages. Signed on the co
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Samuel Richardson560 - Samuel Richardson
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English writer and printer (1689–1761) known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded; Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady; a
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Romain Rolland561 - Romain Rolland
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French writer who won the 1916 Nobel Prize for literature. ALS in French, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8, January 10, 1933. Letter to an
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Jean-Paul Sartre562 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Scarce ANS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. A note dashed off to his lover, Michelle Vian. In full (translated): “Her
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Maurice Sendak563 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Pierre: A Cautionary Tale. NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.25, 48 pages. Signed and inscrib...
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Samuel Francis Smith564 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Beautifully penned AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 3.25 deckle-edge sheet, signed at the conclusion in ink, “S. F. Smith, Written in 1832, July 4, 1887.” Sm
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn565 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Signed book: The Gulag Archipelago. NY: Harper & Row, 1974. Softcover, 4.25 x 7, 660 pages. Signed on the half-title page in black ballpoint. In...
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George Antheil566 - George Antheil
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American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959) who co-patented a ‘Secret Communications System’ with actress Hedy Lamarr in 1
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Béla Bartok567 - Béla Bartok
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LS, one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, June 23, 1907. Letter to Schlesinger’s Music Publishers in Berlin. In part: “I have received the musical pieces you
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Béla Bartok568 - Béla Bartok
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DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, August 27, 1941. Bartok agrees to extend his contract and confirms it “has been transferred with all its benefits and obligati
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Hector Berlioz569 - Hector Berlioz
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Interesting LS in French, signed “H. Berlioz,” one page both sides, 8.75 x 13.5, Committee of the Association of Musicians letterhead, December 30, 18
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Ferruccio Busoni570 - Ferruccio Busoni
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Two ALSs signed “F. Busoni,” two pages in total, ranging in size from 4.25 x 3.5 to 9 x 6.25, one dated August 20, 1909, the other postmarked Septembe
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Frederick Delius571 - Frederick Delius
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Renowned English composer (1862–1934) who incorporated American and European influences to form a unique style. Scarce ALS, one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 po
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Gabriel Faure572 - Gabriel Faure
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Influential French composer (1845–1924). Sheet music booklet for his seventh ‘Nocturne’ published in Paris by J. Hamelle, fourteen pages, 10.75 x 13.2
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Wilhelm Furtwangler573 - Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Superb glossy 5 x 7 photo of the conductor in a distinguished head-and-shoulders pose, affixed to an 8.25 x 11.25 mount, signed and inscribed on the m
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Edvard Grieg574 - Edvard Grieg
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Twice-signed sheet music booklet for ‘Albumblatter fur Pianoforte, Op. 28,’ published in Leipzig by C. F. Peters, fifteen pages, 9.5 x 12.25, signed a
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Emile Jaques-Dalcroze575 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
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Swiss composer, musician and music educator (1865–1950) whose influential movement-based methodology consists of three equally important elements: eur
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Edward MacDowell576 - Edward MacDowell
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AMQS on an off-white 7.25 x 5 album page, crisply signed in ink. MacDowell neatly pens four bars of piano music from “To a Wild Rose,” with directions
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Pietro Mascagni577 - Pietro Mascagni
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Italian composer (1863–1945) whose 1890 masterpiece ‘Cavalleria rusticana’ takes a place among the most beloved staples of the operatic repertoire. Bo
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