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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Cecil Day-Lewis506 - Cecil Day-Lewis
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Irish poet (1904–1972) who was the British Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death. Handwritten poem by Cecil Day-Lewis entitled "Where are the...
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Walter de la Mare507 - Walter de la Mare
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English poet, short story writer and novelist (1873–1956) who is best remembered for his works for children, the poem The Listeners, and for subtle ps
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Hannah Flagg Gould508 - Hannah Flagg Gould
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Massachusetts poet who is perhaps best known for her poem entitled 'A Name in the Sand.' Scarce handwritten poem by Hannah Flagg Gould entit...
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Bret Harte509 - Bret Harte
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Four lines of verse by esteemed writer and poet Bret Harte, penned in purple ink on an off-white 5.5 x 8.25 sheet. The poem, in full: "And on t...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr510 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” two pages both sides, 4.5 x 7, January 15, 1864. In part: "When I wrote 'To Canaan' I sent it to Fields, who...
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Julia Ward Howe511 - Julia Ward Howe
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Handsome 7.5 x 9.5 print of John Elliott's 1901 chalk portrait of Howe, signed below in black ink, "Julia Ward Howe, March. 1902." Mou...
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John Irving512 - John Irving
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Signed book: The World According to Garp. First edition, first printing. NY: E. P. Dutton, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5, 437 pages. Si
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Washington Irving513 - Washington Irving
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ALS signed “W. Irving,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, February 21, 1820. Letter to Thomas S. Norgate, in full: "I am preparing for an excursion into th...
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Washington Irving: Charles Dudley Warner514 - Washington Irving: Charles Dudley Warner
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American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain (1829–1900). AMS signed "Chas. Dudley Warner," five pages, 5.5 x 9, comprising his e...
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James Jones515 - James Jones
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American novelist (1921–1977) who won the 1952 National Book Award for his first published novel, From Here to Eternity. Two items signed by Jones: a
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