RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction Featuring Civil War

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RR Auction’s October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts a diverse 1,000+ items from all fields of collecting, with a special focus on Civil War and Literature. In addition to an incredible assortment of autograph letters from luminaries like Charles Darwin, Mohandas Gandhi, Charles Dickens, Claude Monet, and J. R. R. Tolkien, a few highlights are a sketch by Pablo Picasso, hand-drawn survey map by George Washington, signed photograph of Leo Tolstoy, and beautiful portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Top artifacts are an officer’s sword presented to Brig.-Gen. Calvin Pratt, a scarce multi-level amputation kit, bullets fired in ballistic tests used as evidence against Bonnie and Clyde, and an incredible hand-engraved Colt revolver honoring Hollywood’s ‘Monster Legacy,’ just in time for Halloween. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in October 2018.
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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Joseph Conrad484 - Joseph Conrad
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Magnificent TLS from Joseph Conrad to his friend and biographer, Elbridge L. Adams, accompanied by a typescript draft of the latter’s article, “Joseph
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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James Fenimore Cooper485 - James Fenimore Cooper
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ALS signed “J. Fenimore Cooper,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, March 24, 1844. Written from Cooperstown, New York, a letter to Commodore Shubrick in Wa
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens486 - Charles Dickens
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Crisply penned ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, July 18, 1862. Letter to Annabella Monckton Milnes, the wife of English poet...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens487 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, Tavistock House, January 16, 1854. Brief letter to Sir James Emerson Tennent, in full: “You may rely on me most implicitly.”
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Charles Dickens488 - Charles Dickens
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Off-white 5.25 x 3.25 envelope panel addressed to his publisher and signed in dark blue ink, "Charles Whiting Esquire, Beaufort House, Charles ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle489 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page both sides, 5 x 3.5, personal letterhead, no date. Letter to a gentleman concerning his spiritualist beliefs, in
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Eliot490 - George Eliot
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Pseudonym of Marian Evans Lewes (1819–1880) who, as the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, is remembered as one of the great figures of English l
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson491 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Two autograph letters by Emerson, one unsigned and one signed "R. W. Emerson," totaling eight pages on four sheets, 4.5 x 7, dated 1862. T...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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William Faulkner492 - William Faulkner
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Signed book: A Green Bough. Limited edition, numbered 203/360. NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75, 67 pages. Signed on th
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald493 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Uncommon ALS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, no date but circa 1922. Letter to "Miss Marshall," the journalist Marguerite Mooers Marshall, who publi...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming494 - Ian Fleming
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ALS, one page both sides, 5.5 x 7, personal letterhead, no date but circa June 1964. Letter to Max, the son of British-Canadian politician and busines
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming495 - Ian Fleming
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TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian,” one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, September 11, 1962. Letter to Albert D. Cohen, in full: “Thank you very much inde
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Robert Frost496 - Robert Frost
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ALS, two pages, 6 x 8, October 22, 1937. Letter to Mary Hotson, wife of noted Elizabethan scholar J. Leslie Hotson, concerning a poetry reading at Hav
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Allen Ginsberg497 - Allen Ginsberg
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Lengthy and remarkable TLS signed “AG,” six pages on five sheets, 8.5 x 11, December 12, 1959. Letter to Donald Cook, research psychologist at the Nat
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Jacob Grimm498 - Jacob Grimm
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German philologist, jurist, and mythologist (1785–1863) best remembered as the elder of the Brothers Grimm and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway499 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS signed “Love, Papa,” one page, 8 x 10.5, June 27, 1959. Letter to his close friend A. E. Hotchner, an integral member of Hemingway’s entourage dur
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway500 - Ernest Hemingway
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Extraordinary booklet entitled "Hemingway's First Picture Story," reprinted from Look Magazine, January 26, 1954, 16 pages, 10.5 x 13....
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway501 - Ernest Hemingway
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Fantastic color 5.5 x 3 ticket stub for a bullfight at the Plaza de Toros in Alicante, Spain, on June 28, 1959, signed neatly on the reverse in black
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr502 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” one page, 4.5 x 7, November 22. Letter to "Mr. Osgood," in part: "My nephew, a son of Hon. C. W. Upham of ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Henry James503 - Henry James
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Significant collection of seven ALSs and one TLS from Henry James, signed “H. J.,” “H. James,” or “Henry James,” 27 total pages, dated between 1895 an
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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