RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts Featuring Royalty

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RR Auction’s January Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is sure to impress, boasting over 850 items in a wide variety of genres. We open with a special ‘Royalty’ section, which spans over five hundred years of majestic material—from Spain’s Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of the 1490s to Britain’s tragic Princess Diana of the 1990s. Our presidential section is similarly robust, highlighted by a Revolutionary War-dated letter by George Washington, a Congressional resolution to honor Ben Franklin signed by Thomas Jefferson, and a page from Theodore Roosevelt’s manuscript for The Winning of the West. Other great autographs in this sale include the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the economist Adam Smith, the abolitionist John Brown, the surrealist Rene Magritte, and many 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 January 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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James M. Barrie505 - James M. Barrie
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Scottish novelist and playwright (1860–1937) best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. ALS signed “J. M. Barrie,” one page, 4 x 6.25, Leinster Corn
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Ray Bradbury506 - Ray Bradbury
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DS, three pages, 8.5 x 11, February 18, 1971. American Broadcasting Company document hiring Bradbury "to write story and teleplay for one (1) e...
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Robert Browning507 - Robert Browning
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Extremely desirable ink signature, "yours affectionately ever, Robert Browning,” on an off-white 3 x 1 slip. Double-matted and framed to an ove...
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James M. Cain508 - James M. Cain
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American novelist (1892–1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. TLS signed
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Henri Charriere509 - Henri Charriere
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Convicted murderer and author of Papillon (1906–1973), an account of his time in a penal colony in French Guiana, later turned into a film starring St
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Tom Clancy510 - Tom Clancy
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TLS, 8.5 x 10.25, personal letterhead, August 8, 1994. In full: "Like you, I've seen O.J. play. But save your grief for the dead. Simpson i...
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E. E. Cummings511 - E. E. Cummings
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Ink signature, “from E. E. Cummings, 4 Parlin Place, NY City,” on an off-white 2.25 x 1 slip. In fine condition, with a couple small spots of soiling.
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Gustave Dore512 - Gustave Dore
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Painter and illustrator (1832–1883) known for his illustrated editions of books by Rabelais, Balzac, Dante, Milton, and others. ALS in French, signed
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Jean Genet513 - Jean Genet
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Prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist (1910–1986). Scarce ALS in French, one page, 8.25 x 10
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William Gibson514 - William Gibson
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Signed book: Neuromancer. First Phantasia Press edition. West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 231 page
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Graham Greene515 - Graham Greene
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TLS, one page, 6.25 x 7.75, 5 St. James's Street letterhead, August 21, 1950. Letter to Robert Ostermann, in full: "It was nice getting a l...
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Zane Grey516 - Zane Grey
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Two checks: a personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Grey, made payable to Tung Hing for $311.32, April 12, 1934; and a Se
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Robert Heinlein517 - Robert Heinlein
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Desirable first edition book: Have Space Suit—Will Travel. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x ...
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Frank Herbert518 - Frank Herbert
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Signed book: The Dragon in the Sea. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 192 pages. Signed on a lo
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr519 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Civil War-dated ALS signed “O. W. Holmes,” one page, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, March 30, 1862. In full: "My engagements in Boston have comp...
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Colette de Jouvenel520 - Colette de Jouvenel
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The daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel. Untranslated ALS in French, one page both sides, 10.5 x 8.25, Le Mati
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Stephen King521 - Stephen King
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Color limited edition 24 x 18 broadsheet entitled 'Letters from Hell,' number 166, published by the Lord John Press, Northridge, California,...
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Stephen King522 - Stephen King
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Rare personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Jeffrey Gelb, payable to Stephen King for $300, May 21, 1992, endorsed on the reverse in red i
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Selma Lagerlof523 - Selma Lagerlof
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Swedish writer (1858–1940) who, in 1909, became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Vintage matte-finish 3.25 x 5.25 head-and-shoul
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Elmore Leonard524 - Elmore Leonard
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TLS signed “Dutch,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, January 27, 1981. Letter to his literary agent H. N. Swanson, in part: "Something ...
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