RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

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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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Jean Cocteau567 - Jean Cocteau
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Original signed artist’s pencil sketch of an abstract depiction of Orpheus with a harp on an off-white 9 x 13 sheet, signed vertically within the harp
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Hart Crane568 - Hart Crane
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Rare ALS signed “Hart Crane,” one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard depicting the Cunard RMS Tuscania, no date but circa mid-December 1928. Letter to John
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens569 - Charles Dickens
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ALS signed “CD,” one page, 4.5 x 7, March 8, 1858. Letter to journalist and editor Mark Lemon, in full: “I trust you are better? You were sadly missed
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens570 - Charles Dickens
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ALS signed “CD,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Gads Hill Place letterhead, June 30, 1865. Letter to The Sun journalist Charles Kent, in full: “Can you come down
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens571 - Charles Dickens
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Messrs. Coutts & Company bank check, 7.5 x 3.25, neatly filled out and signed by Dickens, “Charles Dickens,” payable to House for $22.10.0, May ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens572 - Charles Dickens
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Ink signature, “Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2 slip affixed to a slightly larger scrapbook page. In very good to fine con
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle573 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 4.25 x 6.75, 12, Tennison Road letterhead, February 11, 1892. In full: “Many thanks for your very kind note whi
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Alexandre Dumas, fils574 - Alexandre Dumas, fils
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French writer and dramatist (1824–1895) best known for Camille and for being the illegitimate son of famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. Two items: an ALS
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Alexandre Dumas, pere575 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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Handwritten manuscript in French, unsigned, twelve pages, no date but circa late 1850s. Dumas’s manuscript for a two-part story entitled ‘One of My Am
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Alexandre Dumas, pere576 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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ALS in French, signed “Ale. Dumas,” one page on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 5.25, monogrammed personal letterhead, no date. Letter to a gentleman, in
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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T. S. Eliot577 - T. S. Eliot
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 5.5, personal letterhead, November 8, 1932. Letter to journalist and magazine editor Milton A. Abernethy, in full: “Thank you for
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Anatole France578 - Anatole France
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French author (1844–1924) who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. ALS in French, three pages both sides, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter concerning tr
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway579 - Ernest Hemingway
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Superb TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba letterhead, December 10, 1955. Letter to Silvano Suarez, in full: “I am very s
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Julia Ward Howe580 - Julia Ward Howe
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ALS, one page, 8 x 10.5, December 27, 1909. Letter discussing changes in her soon-to-be-published poem ‘The Capitol.’ In part: “Now will this do—‘A Me
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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T. E. Lawrence581 - T. E. Lawrence
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ALS signed “T. E. Shaw,” one page, 5.5 x 8, no date. Interesting letter on one of his works. In full: “‘Revolt in the Desert’ is not a book, on its ow
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Jack London582 - Jack London
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ALS, three pages, 8.5 x 11, August 24, 1910. Letter to “O’Hara,” written from Glen Ellen, California, in part: “Between being away from home for month
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Mann583 - Thomas Mann
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Signed book: Joseph in Egypt. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Two hardcover volumes with slipcase, 5.5 x 7.75, 664 pages. Signed and inscri
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Guy de Maupassant584 - Guy de Maupassant
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ALS in French, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, Ministere de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts letterhead, no date. Letter to
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Edna St. Vincent Millay585 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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TLS signed “Edna Millay,” one page, 5.25 x 6.5, March 30, [1936]. Letter to H. J. Webster, in part: “Thank you for the book. I read it with care, (And
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Estimate : 200.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Henry Miller586 - Henry Miller
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Exceptional set of three ALSs from the adored writer, one signed “Henry,” and two signed with his full name. The first, one page on the reverse of a p
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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