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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Charles Dickens594 - Charles Dickens
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Desirable hand-addressed and signed address panel removed from a mailing envelope, 4 x 2.5, addressed by Dickens to “Thomas Longman Esquire, Messrs Lo
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming595 - Ian Fleming
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Ballpoint signature, “Ian Fleming,” on an off-white 5 x 3.5 sheet. In fine condition, with a light crease along right side and a paperclip impression
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe596 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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ANS in German, signed “G,” one page, 3.5 x 1.75, December 17, 1827. Goethe pens the name of a book, “v. Riedesels Reise nach Sicilien,” referring to J
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe597 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Note in German, signed “G,” one page, 5 x 4, September 25, 1830. A note to Christian Ernst Friedrich Weller, a librarian at the University Library in
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Ottilie von Goethe598 - Ottilie von Goethe
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Daughter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1796–1872). ALS in German, unsigned, three pages both sides, 9 x 11.25, April 22, 1858. In part (translated):
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Knut Hamsun599 - Knut Hamsun
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Prolific Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and poet (1859–1952) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Exceptional double-weight 4 x 5.5 photo o
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Knut Hamsun600 - Knut Hamsun
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Prolific Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and poet (1859–1952) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Untranslated ALS in Norwegian, one page o
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Ernest Hemingway601 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: To Have and Have Not. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 262 pages. Signed and inscribed on t...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway602 - Ernest Hemingway
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Crisp bank check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to the bearer for $32, January 2, 195
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway603 - Ernest Hemingway
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Unique archive of seventeen items, highlighted by one page of unsigned handwritten notes by Ernest Hemingway. Also includes six typed carbon copy lett
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Hermann Hesse604 - Hermann Hesse
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TLS in German, signed in pencil, “H. Hesse,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.75 x 8.75, no date but circa 1934. Untranslated letter to Hedwig F
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Victor Hugo605 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, two pages, 4.25 x 6.75, April 10, 1864. In part (roughly translated): “My sons are absent at the moment, one is in France, the other in
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Samuel Johnson606 - Samuel Johnson
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English critic and lexicographer (1709–1784) known for compiling A Dictionary of the English Language, which featured the important innovations of ill
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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James Joyce607 - James Joyce
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Extremely rare vintage matte-finish 3.25 x 5.25 postcard photo of Joyce resting his head upon his right arm and looking straight into the camera, sign
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 25,000.00
 
 
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James Joyce608 - James Joyce
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Signed book: Anna Livia Plurabelle. Limited edition, numbered 69/800. NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Hardcover, 4.75 x 7, 61 pages. Crisply signed on the col
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Jack Kerouac609 - Jack Kerouac
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TLS signed “Jack,” one page, 8.25 x 10.75, December 18, 1961. Letter to Lois Sorrells, in part (spelling and grammar retained): “Me’s weary, it'...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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August von Kotzebue610 - August von Kotzebue
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German dramatist and writer (1761–1819) who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany and was murdered in 1819 by a militant member of the Bursche
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Else Lasker-Schuler611 - Else Lasker-Schuler
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Jewish poet and playwright (1869–1945) famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin, who later fled Nazi Germany for Zurich before settling in Jerusale
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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T. E. Lawrence612 - T. E. Lawrence
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, All Souls College, Oxford, letterhead, September 18, 1920. Letter to Miss Baird in London. In full: “
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Federico Garcia Lorca613 - Federico Garcia Lorca
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Highly esteemed Spanish poet, playwright, and artist (1898–1936) executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. ALS in Spanish, signed “
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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