RR Auction: Fine Autograph and Artifact Auction

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Featuring a diverse 1,000+ lots, RR Auction’s September Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction boasts a highlighted Royalty section that spans the centuries, offering rarely seen autographs from the likes of Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Frederick the Great, and Princess Diana. Other top lots include a remarkable oversized Abraham Lincoln signed photograph, a letter by philosopher Francis Bacon, an extremely early Winston Churchill signed photo, and a sharp signed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. Other noteworthy autographs include Albert Einstein, J. D. Salinger, the Beatles, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Disney, John F. Kennedy, and more! 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 September 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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Alexandre Dumas, pere594 - Alexandre Dumas, pere
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ALS in French, signed “A. Dumas,” one page, 5.25 x 8, no date. An untranslated letter to "My dear Pillerant." In fine condition.
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway595 - Ernest Hemingway
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Extensively hand-corrected TLS signed twice as “Ernesto,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba letterhead, December 4, 1950.
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe596 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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German writer, scientist, and philosopher (1749–1832) who takes a place among the central intellectual and artistic figures of his day. His poetry and
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky597 - Maxim Gorky
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Important Russian writer (1868–1936), who was a founder of the socialist realism literary method. Extraordinary matte-finish 5 x 7 formal portrait of
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Jack Kerouac598 - Jack Kerouac
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Fountain pen signature, "Jack Kerouac,” on an off-white 2.75 x 4.5 slip affixed inside the front cover of a Signet paperback edition of his leg...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Joyce Kilmer599 - Joyce Kilmer
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American writer (1886–1918), best known for the much-anthologized poem 'Trees,' who was killed at the Second Battle of Marne at the age of 3...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Aleksandr Kuprin600 - Aleksandr Kuprin
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Russian writer, explorer, and adventurer (1870–1938) best known for his story The Duel. Untranslated ANS in Russian, signed “A. Kuprin,” 5.5 x 7, no d
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Harper Lee601 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Harper,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7.5, personal monogrammed letterhead, January 11, 2009. Letter to her friend Felice Itzkoff, in full:
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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O. Henry602 - O. Henry
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Short story writer born William Sydney Porter (1862–1910) known for his use of the surprise ending. Lengthy AMS, titled and signed at the head, &quo...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky603 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky
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Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1866–1941) who was a seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry and is regarde
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Flannery O'Connor604 - Flannery O'Connor
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Georgia-born American writer (1925–1964), best known for her quintessentially 'Southern Gothic' stories and novels, who died of lupus at the...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Eugene O’Neill605 - Eugene O’Neill
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Very desirable collection of two TLSs and one ALS, signed “Gene” and “Gene O’Neill,” three total pages, each addressed to Helen Freeman. The ALS, writ
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ezra Pound606 - Ezra Pound
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Three typed letters from Ezra Pound, two signed in pencil, “E. P.,” four total pages, each 8.75 x 11.25, personal letterhead (two bearing a Cubist sel
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust607 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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George Sand608 - George Sand
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Acclaimed French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876) remembered for her romantic affairs with the composer Frederic Chopin and the writer Alfred de Mus
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Jules Verne609 - Jules Verne
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ANS in French on a 3.75 x 2.25 card with decorative die-cut borders, October 1899. A neatly penned untranslated note from the early science fiction pi
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Shel Silverstein610 - Shel Silverstein
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Incredible archive celebrating Shel Silverstein's career throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a period during which he was a resident cartoonist for ...
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Estimate : 60,000.00 - 80,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger611 - J. D. Salinger
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ALS signed “Jerry,” three pages both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, The Drake, New York letterhead, February 17, 1969. Letter to "Jerce," Joyce Mille...
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Estimate : 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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Ivan Turgenev612 - Ivan Turgenev
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ALS in French, signed “Iv. Tourgueneff,” one page both sides, 5 x 8.25, July 22, 1880. Letter to Flaubert's niece, Caroline Comanville. In part ...
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Estimate : 12,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Paul Verlaine613 - Paul Verlaine
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Famed and highly influential French poet (1844–1896) who penned Poèmes saturniens and Romances sans paroles; likewise remembered for his tumult...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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