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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Aldous Huxley504 - Aldous Huxley
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, September 23, 1952. Letter to "Mr. Gold," an editor at Life Magazine. In full: "I enclo...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Jack Kerouac505 - Jack Kerouac
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ALS, one page, 5 x 8, December 3, 1962. Letter to "Louis," in full: "Voila, contracts signed—Glad to hear too of Deutsch London repri...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Jack Kerouac506 - Jack Kerouac
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Personal check, 5.75 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Kerouac, "Jack Kerouac," payable to Schlossman's, Inc. for $100, August 6, 1958. ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Francis Scott Key507 - Francis Scott Key
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ALS signed “F. S. Key,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, September 9, 1823. Letter to "Rev'd & dear Sir" on the subject of coloni...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Johann Kaspar Lavater508 - Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist, and theologian (1741–1801). Untranslated ALS in German, signed “J. K. Lavater,” one page, 5 x 7.5, no
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Harper Lee509 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Harper,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7.5, personal monogrammed letterhead, April 1, 2009. Letter to her friend Felice Itzkoff, in full: ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Harper Lee510 - Harper Lee
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Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. 35th Anniversary Edition, first printing (with "1" in the number line). NY: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardc...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Vachel Lindsay511 - Vachel Lindsay
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Signed book: The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems. Later printing. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 127 pages. Signed and i
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Jack London512 - Jack London
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Desirable collection comprising three pages of London's galley proof for The Cruise of the Snark, three black-and-white cardstock photo illustra...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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W. Somerset Maugham513 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Uncommon glossy 4.5 x 6.25 photo of the elderly British scribe in a formal half-length seated pose, signed and inscribed in the lower border in bold b
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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John Muir514 - John Muir
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Naturalist and author (1838–1914) who helped establish Yosemite National Park. Signed book: The Mountains of California. Later printing. NY: The Centu
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Edna St. Vincent Millay515 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Archive of four unsigned autograph love letters from Edna St. Vincent Millay to fellow Pulitzer Prize–winning poet George Dillon, totaling seventeen p
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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A. A. Milne516 - A. A. Milne
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ALS signed "A. A. M.," one page, 5.5 x 7.5, personal letterhead, January 23, 1937. Letter to his friend Vincent Seligman, alluding to one ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Boris Pasternak517 - Boris Pasternak
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Archive of seven ALSs (one in Russian and six in German), signed "B. Pasternak," totaling fifteen pages on nine sheets, dated 1959–1960. A...
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Estimate : 25,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell518 - Margaret Mitchell
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Three TLSs from Mitchell, totaling four pages, personal letterhead, dated 1937 and 1948, all to friend and fellow writer Sadie Temple. The first, sig
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ezra Pound519 - Ezra Pound
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Exceptional ALS signed “E. Pound,” one page both sides, 5.75 x 4.25, personal portrait stationery, July 12, 1959. Unusual handwritten letter from Poun
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust520 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand521 - Ayn Rand
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TLS, one page, 6.75 x 10.75, July 7, 1937. Letter to "Mr. Abbott," written from Sony Creek, Connecticut. In part: "I am very sorry th...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger522 - J. D. Salinger
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TLS signed “As ever, Jerry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, [April 1965]. Letter to Joyce Miller Hodgins, formerly a staff writer at The New Yorker and Salinge...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger523 - J. D. Salinger
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Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the 100th birthday anniversary of author Joel Chandler Harris, signed vertically in fountain pen, "B...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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