RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Italian poet, translator, and librettist (1798–1885) whose work included collaborations with Giuseppe Verdi. Two autograph poems in Italian on an off-

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, August 5, 1942. Letter to Franklin Rouda at Harvard University. In part: “You ask me whether the aut

French naturalist writer (1850–1893) considered the greatest French author of short stories. Boldly penned ALS in French, one page, 4 x 5, monogrammed

French writer (1871–1922) known for the sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world literature. Unsig

French novelist and poet (1822–1861) best remembered as the author of La Vie de Boheme, which was later adapted into the famous operas by Puccini and

Very rare DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 4, 1969. Document extending a deadline for an option agreement between Nabokov and McGraw Hill International

ALS signed “Geo. Orwell,” one page, 5.5 x 7, October 2, 1949. Letter to an admirer. In part: “Many thanks for your letter & the review of ‘1984....

Exceptional handwritten manuscript in French, unsigned, one page, 8 x 10.5, no date but circa 1938–1939. A page from Saint-Exupery’s draft for a socio

Untranslated ALS in French, signed “G. Sand,” one page, 6 x 7.75, blindstamped monogrammed letterhead, no date. In very good condition, with intersect

Scarce paperstock 4.5 x 7.5 book photo of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir side-by-side, signed in the lower border in blue felt tip by both. I