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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George Bernard Shaw663 - George Bernard Shaw
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Nobel Prize–winning Irish dramatist and critic (1856–1950) who takes a place among the most distinguished and influential literary figures of his time
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck664 - John Steinbeck
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Signed book: East of Eden. Later printing. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 525 pages. Signed and inscribed o
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Stendhal665 - Stendhal
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ALS in French, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9, August 7, 1810. Lengthy untranslated letter to his sister Pauline Perier-Lagrange. Only
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Robert Louis Stevenson666 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Uncommon bank check, 8 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Stevenson, payable to Budden & Son for £5.19.0, June 28, 1887. Vertica...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Robert Louis Stevenson667 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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ALS, one page, 5 x 8, black-bordered mourning stationery, no date but circa 1887. Letter to Edwin W. Carr. In full: “It is annoying to me that I shoul
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Rabindranath Tagore668 - Rabindranath Tagore
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ALS in Urdu, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, The Cumnock School, Los Angeles letterhead, no date but circa October 1916. In part (translated): "I am ver...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Alfred Lord Tennyson669 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Original 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait by Mayall Photo of London, signed in black ink at the bottom of the image, “A. Tennyson.” In fine condition
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Dylan Thomas670 - Dylan Thomas
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Scarce ALS signed “Dylan,” one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard depicting Rio Marina, postmarked July 26, 1947. Letter to his close friends Bill and Helen
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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J. R. R. Tolkien671 - 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 : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Alexandra Tolstoy672 - Alexandra Tolstoy
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Youngest daughter (1884–1979) and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Ink signature and inscription, “To Lydie Kliuss, just a word to
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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