RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction Featuring Presidents

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In honor of Washington's Birthday, RR Auction's February Fine Autograph and Artifact sale opens with a remarkable assortment of nearly 200 presidential autographs, highlighted by an excessively rare William Henry Harrison document as president, an autograph letter by LBJ to the Speaker of the House, and a significant selection of free franks. Other top lots include an extraordinary signed portrait of James Joyce, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal ledger, an Einstein letter on a childhood game, and Warren Buffett's personal set of golf clubs. The Beatles, Apollo 11 astronauts, Charles Schulz, Marilyn Monroe, and Babe Ruth round out our pop culture offerings. 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 February 2019.
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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Walt Whitman496 - Walt Whitman
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Bold vintage ink signature, "Walt Whitman,” on an off-white 5.5 x 8.25 album page, which is also signed by John Jay Knox, who adds "Acting...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William Butler Yeats497 - William Butler Yeats
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ALS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 3.5 x 5.5, personal letterhead, March 6. [1921]. Letter to writer Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, referencing fellow
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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W. H. Auden498 - W. H. Auden
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British-American poet (1907-1973) best known for such classic verses as 'September 1, 1939' and 'The Age of Anxiety' and for his mus...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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W. H. Auden499 - W. H. Auden
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DS, one page, 8.5 x 10.75, April 2, 1948. Official letter directed to German playwright Bertolt Brecht, in full: "I have therefore given sugges...
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W. H. Auden500 - W. H. Auden
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Souvenir typescript of his oft-anthologized poem "Musee des Beaux Arts," one page, 8.5 x 11, signed and inscribed at the conclusion in blu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ludwig Bemelmans501 - Ludwig Bemelmans
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Belgian-born American author and illustrator (1898-1962) best known for his now-classic series of Madeleine children's books. ALS signed “Ludwig...
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Virginia Lee Burton502 - Virginia Lee Burton
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Unsigned first edition book: Katy and the Big Snow. First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10 x 9, 36 pages. Book
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Willa Cather503 - Willa Cather
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Typescript of a poem entitled "Aspirations," one page, 8 x 13, signed at the conclusion in fountain pen, "Willa Sibert Cather." ...
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Paulo Coelho504 - Paulo Coelho
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Signed book: The Alchemist. First English edition. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8.5, 177 pages. Signed
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Michael Crichton505 - Michael Crichton
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Two books: a 'gift edition' of Jurassic Park, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Alfred A, Knopf in 1993, signed on a free end page in...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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