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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James R. Randall695 - James R. Randall
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Rare AMS, five pages, 7.75 x 10.a5, December 14, 1894. A full autograph copy of Randall’s Civil War Anthem, “My Maryland!” In part: “I hear the distan
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Romain Rolland696 - Romain Rolland
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, September 20, 1938. Untranslated letter to the German writer and journalist Heinz Stroh in Prague, who had sent
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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George Sand697 - George Sand
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ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 7.75, blindstamped monogrammed letterhead, June 16, 1856. Letter to a fellow author, in full (translated): “I don’t wa
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre698 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Scarce ANS in French, signed “J. P. Sartre,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. A note dashed off to his lover, Michelle Vian. In full (translated): “Her
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Samuel Francis Smith699 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Unusually long AQS on an off-white 5.75 x 12 sheet, signed at the conclusion, “S. F. Smith.” Smith pens the four original verses of ‘America’ in their
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn700 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, August 25, 1987. Letter to writer and political activist Elie Wiesel, in full: “No, I cannot accept your idea in your letter
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Ivan Turgenev701 - Ivan Turgenev
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Personal calling card imprinted with Turgenev’s name and address in Baden-Baden, Germany, 3.25 x 2, bearing a brief unsigned note in German in his own
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Kurt Vonnegut702 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Signed book: Slaughterhouse-Five. First edition, later printing. NY: Delacorte Press, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 186 pages. Signed
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Henry David Thoreau703 - Henry David Thoreau
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Fantastic handwritten manuscript, unsigned, one page both sides, 7.5 x 9.5, no date but circa 1854. A page from Thoreau’s draft for his ‘Moonlight’ le
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Voltaire704 - Voltaire
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ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 7.5, no date but a docketing notation to the reverse indicates the letter was received at Ferney on August 4, 1764. A t
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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