RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
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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Rabindranath Tagore580 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bold fountain pen signature in Bengali on an off-white 8.5 x 10.75 sheet, with “2nd February, 1925” added in his own hand. In fine condition, with cen
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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J. R. R. Tolkien581 - J. R. R. Tolkien
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TLS, one page, 6 x 9, personal letterhead, no date but postmarked May 1, 1972. Letter to Miss Donna Sadlier. In full: “It was most kind of you to writ
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Voltaire582 - Voltaire
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ANS in French, unsigned, one page, 4.5 x 7.25, no date but circa 1730s. Letter transmitting an address. In part (translated): “Monsieur Thiriet, c/o M
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Jules Verne583 - Jules Verne
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Handsome 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Verne at his desk, signed in the lower border in black ink. In fine condition, with minor toning and creasing to
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Virginia Woolf584 - Virginia Woolf
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TLS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, September 20, 1927. Letter to Ellery Sedgwick, in full: “Thank you for your letter. I certainly had no notion that th
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells585 - H. G. Wells
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Rare matte-finish 7.25 x 9.25 formal portrait of Wells by renowned Washington studio Harris & Ewing, affixed to its original 9.5 x 13.5 mount, s...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Yang Mo586 - Yang Mo
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Chinese writer (1915–1995) who was best known for the book Song of Youth in 1958, which was adapted into a film in 1959. Untranslated AQS in Chinese c
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Emile Zola587 - Emile Zola
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Boldly penned ANS in French on the front of Zola’s personal calling card imprinted with his name and address, 3.75 x 2.25, no date but circa 1900. In
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Stefan Zweig588 - Stefan Zweig
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Austrian novelist and playwright (1881–1942). Matte-finish 3.25 x 5 postcard photo of Zweig in profile, signed and inscribed in German in fountain pen
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Berthold Auerbach590 - Berthold Auerbach
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German-Jewish poet and author (1812–1882) known as the founder of the German ‘tendency novel,’ in which fiction is used as a means of influencing publ
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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