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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Sean O'Casey526 - Sean O'Casey
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ALS signed “Sean,” one page both sides of a light blue 7.75 x 9.5 aerogramme, September 10, 1956. Letter to Mr. Jo Young at the Kansas State Teachers
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Eugene O'Neill527 - Eugene O'Neill
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Signed book: The Emperor Jones. First edition, limited issue, numbered 614/775. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.25, 90 pages. S...
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Eugene O'Neill and Theodore Dreiser528 - Eugene O'Neill and Theodore Dreiser
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First issue of The American Spectator: A Literary Newspaper from November 1932, four pages, 17.5 x 22.5, signed in fountain pen by its five editors an
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James Whitcomb Riley529 - James Whitcomb Riley
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Four lines of verse penned by James Whitcomb Riley on an off-white 6 x 3 sheet, signed and dated below, "J. W. Riley, New York, Nov. 26, —1887—...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson530 - Edwin Arlington Robinson
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AQS on a vellum 7 x 9 sheet, signed at the conclusion, "Edwin Arlington Robinson, July 1, 1930." Robinson quotes from his Pulitzer Prize–w...
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Carl Sandburg531 - Carl Sandburg
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 5.5, The Chicago Daily News, Editorial Rooms letterhead, January 14, 1922. Letter to poet and Smith College professor Grace Hazar
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Arthur Schnitzler532 - Arthur Schnitzler
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Austrian writer (1862–1931) best known for his sexually charged plays and stories. His 1926 novella Traumnovelle served as the basis for Eyes Wide Shu
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Maurice Sendak533 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: The Bat-Poet. Later printing. New York and London: Macmillan, 1964. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 43 pages. Signed on the first
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Maurice Sendak534 - Maurice Sendak
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Color 18.5 x 24 poster featuring a Wild Thing made for the tenth anniversary of the New York Book Fair in 1988, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip,
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Maurice Sendak535 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. 25th Anniversary Edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.25 x 9.25. Signed on the hal
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