Auction Details
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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524J. D. SalingerRR Auction
DS, one page, 2.75 x 7, June 3, 2002. Credit card receipt for a purchase of two books—"Round the Fire" and "Best Cat Stories"—at...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
525George SandRR Auction
Two ALSs in French, one signed "George Sand" and one signed "G. Sand," totaling five pages on sets of adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8...
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
526Jean-Paul SartreRR Auction
TLS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, May 20, 1970. Letter to Jacques Debu-Bridel, in part: "Our policy positions are ve...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
527Maurice SendakRR Auction
Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. First edition, with "Library of Congress catalog card number: 63-21253" on title page. NY: Harper ...
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
528George Bernard ShawRR Auction
Handwritten responses to a questionnaire, signed "GBS, 21/1/35," one page, 8.5 x 11, returned to University of Rochester English professor...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
529George Bernard ShawRR Auction
Signed book: The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza. First edition. London: Constable and Company, 1930. Hardcover, 5 x 7, 78 pages. Signed and insc
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
530Shel SilversteinRR Auction
Signed book: The Giving Tree. Later printing. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, 7.5 x 9, 54 pages. S...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
531Gertrude SteinRR Auction
Signed book: The Making of Americans. Second printing. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 416 pages. Neatly signed on the f
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
532Dylan ThomasRR Auction
ALS, one page, 5.25 x 5, no date. Letter to to Michael Powell, written from "The Boat House" in Laugharne. In full: "Roger Burford ga...
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
533Leo TolstoyRR Auction
Scarce and immensely desirable 4.25 x 6.5 Russian cabinet photo of Tolstoy dressed in a traditional belted tunic and seated in a half-length pose with
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00