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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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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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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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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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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