RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Signed book: Revival. First edition, first printing. NY: Scribner, 2014. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 405 pages. Signed on the title page in

Signed book: 11/22/63. First edition. NY: Scribner, 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 849 pages. Signed on the title page in blue ink. In f

Official Rawlings Major League (Selig) baseball signed in black ballpoint on the sweet spot. In fine to very good condition, with haloing to the signa

ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Family Hotel, St. Mary-Church, Torquay letterhead, September 9, 1896. Letter to journalist Charles H. Chandler. In part: “I ha

Ink signature, “Rudyard Kipling,” on an off-white 4 x 2 card. Triple-matted and framed with a portrait of Kipling to an overall size of 12 x 18. In fi

Signed book: The Little Drummer Girl. Book-of-the-Month Club edition, limited issue, numbered 147/1000. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Hardcover with slip

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, The East and West Association letterhead, September 24, 1943. Letter to Mrs. King, in part: “The depth and extent of American

American poet (1879–1931) whose employment of midwestern themes earned him the sobriquet ‘Prairie Troubadour.’ Proof of one of Lindsay’s illustrations

ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” one page, 4.5 x 7, December 2, 1874. Letter of thanks to an unidentified gentleman, in full: “I have just received y

Ink signature, “Henry W. Longfellow, 1879,” on an off-white 4 x 2 card. In fine condition, with a tiny spot of adhesive remnant to right edge. Accompa

French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer (1803–1870); one of his stories was the basis of the opera Carmen. ALS in French, s

Two British first edition books, both hardcovers with dust jackets, including: a 1965 edition of After the Fall, signed on the title page in blue ball

Signed book: The Hairy Ape. Special limited edition, numbered 502. NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.25, 114 pages. Neatly signed on th

Colophon removed from the 1929 Horace Liveright limited edition of Dynamo, numbered 427/775, 4.5 x 5, signed in fountain pen. Matted and framed with a

American collector, scholar, and seller of rare books and manuscripts (1876–1952) who popularized the collecting of American literature. Signed book:

Signed book: Complete Poems. First edition, first printing. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5, 676 pages. Signed on a free

American poet (1816–1887) known for his re-telling of the Indian parable ‘The Blind Men and the Elephant.’ ALS signed “John G. Saxe,” one page, 4.75 x

ALS signed “Walter Scott,” one page, 4.25 x 7.25, no date but docketed 1824 on the reverse in another hand. Letter to David Thomson. In part: “Harden

Portion of a handwritten manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8 x 1.75, no date. A section of Scott’s draft for the short story ‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror.

FDC with a cachet honoring Indian artwork, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “For Greg…Dr. Seuss,” adding a small ink and artist’s pencil sketch

ANS signed “U. Sinclair,” one page, 8.5 x 5.5, personal letterhead, January 28, 1933. A note to David C. Holly, in full: “I have discussed Baltimore a

Signed book: August 1914. First edition. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 622 pages. Signed and inscribed

LS written in the hand of Dracula author Bram Stoker, signed “Henry Irving,” one page, 5 x 8, blindstamped Lyceum Theatre letterhead, March 24, 1897.

Ink signature, “Truly Yours, Harriet Beecher Stowe, June 25, 1883,” on an off-white 6.5 x 3.25 clipped slip. In fine condition, with a diagonal fold (

Ink signature, “Your very faithful Svt., W. M. Thackeray,” on an off-white 3.5 x 1.5 slip clipped from the close of a letter. In fine condition, with

Three books: a first UK edition of The Rum Diary, hardcover with dust jacket, signed on the publisher’s bookplate affixed to the half-title page in bl

ALS, one page, 5 x 7.75, The Hangar letterhead, October 22, 1937. In part: “My visit to Philadelphia is to be a very swift one. I shall arrive about 1

Vintage sepia 4.5 x 7 cabinet photo of Whittier, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, “John G. Whittier.” Some light spotting to image, slight

Signed book: The Woman of Andros. First edition, limited issue, numbered 3/260. NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. Hardcover, 8 x 10.25, 105 pages. Si

Twice-signed Chase National Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Williams, “Tennessee Williams, (Special account),” payable to cash for $

Rare pearl-finish 7.5 x 9.5 portrait capturing Bartok’s penetrating stare, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Mr. Alexander Smallens, Bela Bart

Exceptional autograph musical manuscript, 10.5 x 13.75, seven pages on four musically lined sheets, nicely signed at the conclusion in fountain pen. A

British conductor of the Halle Orchestra (1899–1970) who previously served as Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Phi...

Eccentric and supremely gifted violinist (1916–2002) whose performances were characterized by intensity and extraordinary facility. Vintage glossy 8 x

ALS in French, one page, 5.5 x 3.5, personal letterhead, March 2, 1911. In part (translated): "Be sure that…the ballad of Francois Villon will ...

Italian composer (1797–1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in Italian, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 8.75 x 10, July 2

Influential French composer (1845–1924). Rare matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Faure in a dignified pose, signed in the lower border in black

Ink signature, “Edvard Grieg, Leipzig 1/11/95,” on an off-white 5.5 x 3.5 clipped slip. In fine condition, with light scattered spots of soiling.

Russian composer (1903-1978) of the spirited Sabre Dance. Untranslated ALS in Cyrillic, one page both sides, 8.25 x 12, June 10, 1973. Intersecting fo

Brief ALS in Italian, signed “Puccini,” one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, no date but postmarked 1912. Untranslated letter to Antonio Bettolacci. Moun

Choice AMQS on an off-white 4 x 4.5 clipped slip. Puccini pens two bars of music from ‘La Fanciulla del West,’ writing the title above the quote, and

LS in French, signed “Paganini,” one page, 5.25 x 8, April 1, 1833. Letter to notable French author Prosper Merimee. In full (translated): "I a...

Unsigned handbill for a performance by Paganini at King’s Theatre in London on August 5, 1831, one page, 5 x 8.75, headed: “Signor Paganini’s Concert!

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 24, 1922. Letter to Berthold Neuer, in full: “I am writing to tell you that your ‘Business’ in

Sought-after 4 x 6.5 cardstock photo of Rachmaninoff seated at his piano, signed in the lower border in fountain pen. In very good condition, with hea

AMQS on an off-white 5.5 x 3.75 card, signed in fountain pen, “Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1937.” Below his signature, Rachmaninoff pens a single chord. A mi

Important Italian composer (1792–1868) who became one of the seminal figures in the history of opera with such repertoire staples as The Barber of Sev

ALS in Cyrillic, signed “Tchaikovsky,” one page, 4.5 x 7, November 9, [1892]. Letter to Katerina Ivanovna Laroche. In full (translated): "I hav...

Soviet composer (1906–1975) whose fifteen symphonies occupy a place of central performance in the orchestral literature of the twentieth century. Untr

Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 4.5 x 3.5, addressed by Verdi to a fellow composer, “Monseiur Victorin de Joncieres, Rue Castiglione, N. 10, Paris.”