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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Allen Ginsberg639 - Allen Ginsberg
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Fantastic collection of 18 books signed by Allen Ginsberg, many with the date and location of signing added. Titles include: Your Reason & Blake...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky640 - Maxim Gorky
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LS in French, signed in Cyrillic by Gorky, one page, 5 x 8.5, personal letterhead, no date. Untranslated letter written and also signed by his lover,
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Han Suyin641 - Han Suyin
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Pen name of Elizabeth Comber (1916–2012) whose novels and autobiographical memoirs covered the span of modern China, gaining her a reputation as an ar
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne642 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Partly-printed DS, signed “N. Hawthorne,” one page, 7 x 8, February 24, 1854. As consul of the United States at the port of Liverpool, Hawthorne certi
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway643 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Hardcover rebound in leather, 5.5 x 8.5, 343 pages. Signed a...
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Ernest Hemingway644 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS signed “Papa,” one page, 4 x 9, spelling test notepad paper, no date. Letter to his wife Mary, who he nicknamed “Kittner.” In part: “Hope you slep
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway645 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS, one page, 7.5 x 11, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba letterhead, March 8, 1960. Hemingway writes to Ed Thompson, his editor at Life maga
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Langston Hughes646 - Langston Hughes
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Signed book: Freedom’s Plow. Third printing. NY: Musette Publishers, 1946. Paperback, 5.25 x 8.5, 14 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the copyrig
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Herbert Huncke647 - Herbert Huncke
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Countercultural poet (1915–1996) and member of the Beat Generation reputed to have coined the term. Signed book: Huncke’s Journal. First edition. NY:
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Victor Hugo648 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 5 x 8, November 30, 1868. Letter to a gentleman. In full (translated): "I have received your eloquent letter and I hop...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Henrik Ibsen649 - Henrik Ibsen
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ALS in German, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, personal monogrammed letterhead, March 25, 1876. Letter to bookseller Theodor Ackermann in Munich regarding the di
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Washington Irving650 - Washington Irving
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Handwritten manuscript draft page contained within the first volume of the limited 1895 ‘author’s autograph edition’ of his works, unsigned, one page,
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Joyce Kilmer651 - Joyce Kilmer
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Signed book: Trees and Other Poems. First edition. NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8, 75 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Arthur Koestler652 - Arthur Koestler
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Jewish-Hungarian author (1905–1983) best known for the anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon. Exceptional handwritten manuscript for an article introd
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Aleksandr Kuprin653 - Aleksandr Kuprin
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Russian writer, explorer, and adventurer (1870–1938) best known for his story The Duel. Untranslated ALS in Cyrillic, signed “A. Kuprin,” one page, 8
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence654 - D. H. Lawrence
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Signed book: Rawdon’s Roof. Limited edition, numbered 379/530. London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1928. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8, 32 pages.
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence655 - D. H. Lawrence
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DS, two pages, 8.5 x 13, May 1, 1929. A contract between Lawrence and publisher Jonathan Cape for the publication of “the manuscript of a work at pres
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Lin Yutang656 - Lin Yutang
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Writer (1895–1976) whose compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West. AQS on an off-white 5.5 x 3
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Jack London657 - Jack London
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TLS, one page, 8 x 9.75, stamped personal letterhead, March 29, 1906. Letter to Mabel Applegarth, his ‘first love’ from his late-teen years, including
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Norman Maclean658 - Norman Maclean
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Signed book: A River Runs Through It. Later printing, limited issue, numbered 202/500. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. Hardcover, 7.25
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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