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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William Cullen Bryant607 - William Cullen Bryant
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AQS on an off-white 5 x 8 sheet, signed “William Cullen Bryant.” Bryant pens a quote from his poem ‘A Forest Hymn,’ in full: “The groves were God’s fi
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James M. Cain608 - James M. Cain
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American novelist (1892–1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. Two letters
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Francis Carco609 - Francis Carco
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French author and art critic (1886–1958). ALS in French, one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.5, October 17, 1934. Complimentary letter to a poet. In part (
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Willa Cather610 - Willa Cather
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Signed book: Not Under Forty. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 147 pages. Signed and inscribed on t
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Wilkie Collins611 - Wilkie Collins
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British author (1824–1889) regarded as the first British detective story writer. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, June 11, 1865. Let
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Gabriele D'Annunzio612 - Gabriele D'Annunzio
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Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist (1863–1938) who distinguished himself as a heroic aviator in WWI. Appealing Italian postcard photo of D'An...
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Alphonse Daudet613 - Alphonse Daudet
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French novelist (1840–1897) known for his controversial political and social views. Daudet’s personal calling card, 3.75 x 2.25, nicely signed along t
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Edna Ferber615 - Edna Ferber
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Three TLSs, one signed “Edna Ferber.,” and two signed “Ferb.,”each one page, 730 Park Avenue letterhead, dated 1953 and 1959, with one undated. One le
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Eugene Field616 - Eugene Field
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American writer (1850–1895) best known for his poems of childhood, including ‘Wynken, Blynken, and Nod’ and ‘Little Boy Blue.’ ALS, one page, 5 x 8, N
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E. M. Forster617 - E. M. Forster
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TLS, one page, 7 x 9, Station Comshall letterhead, October 29, 1929. Letter to Monsieur Saurat, in part: “I remember saying that I would take the chai
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Anatole France618 - Anatole France
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French author (1844–1924) who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. Untranslated ALS in French, one page, 6 x 7.75, Editions d’Art Edouard Pellet
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Elizabeth Gaskell619 - Elizabeth Gaskell
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Victorian-era author (1810–1865) whose works detailed the lives of people in all classes of society, best known for her novel North and South. Ink sig
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Graham Greene620 - Graham Greene
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Circa 1962 Saint–Georges Theatre program for a French production of The Potting Shed, 5.25 x 7, 36 pages, signed and inscribed below his image on the
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Edward Everett Hale and William Cullen Bryant621 - Edward Everett Hale and William Cullen Bryant
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Two letters with good autographic content: an ALS signed “Edward E. Hale,” one page, South Congregational Church letterhead, September 30, 1879, in fu
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James Leo Herlihy622 - James Leo Herlihy
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American novelist, playwright and actor (1927–1993) best known for the novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down, and for the play Blue Denim. Glossy 5
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr623 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, no date but postmarked 1893. Letter to the cashier of the Beverly National Bank, in full: “I find tha
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr624 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” one page both sides, 4.75 x 6, January 30, 1885. In part: “I thank you for your pleasant letter. It is a rather cu
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Robert Howard625 - Robert Howard
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English playwright and politician (1626–1698) who co-wrote The Indian Queen with John Dryden. ADS, signed “Ro: Howard,” one page, 7.5 x 4.5, circa 166
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Langston Hughes626 - Langston Hughes
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Signed booklet: Freedom’s Plow. NY: Musette Publishers, 1943. Softcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 14 pages. Signed on the front cover in fountain pen. In fine con
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Harper Lee627 - Harper Lee
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Appealing FDC postmarked Washington, D.C., November 1, 1968, signed in blue felt tip by Lee. In fine condition.
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