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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Robert Louis Stevenson680 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Uncommon fountain pen signature, “R. L. Stevenson,” on an off-white 1.75 x .75 slip displayed in a 6.75 x 8.5 custom-made mat bearing four affixed Sam
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Rabindranath Tagore681 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Fountain pen signature, “Rabindranath Tagore,” on an off-white 3.25 x 2 card meticulously hand-painted by a talented artist to picture a bird sitting
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Dylan Thomas682 - Dylan Thomas
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ALS, one page, 5.5 x 6.5, May 8, 1949. Letter to E. J. Evans, secretary of the Port Talbot Forum, written from his new residence at “The Boat House, L
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Tristan Tzara683 - Tristan Tzara
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ALS in French, signed “Tzara,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, December 8, 1962. Letter to his first biographer, Rene Lacote, in part (translated): “With or wi
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Jules Verne684 - Jules Verne
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ALS in French, one page, 4 x 5.25, October 1, 1886. Untranslated letter to a baroness about personal matters. In fine condition, with light soiling an
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Jules Verne685 - Jules Verne
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ALS in French, one page, 4 x 5.25, March 9, no year but envelope postmarked 1904. Letter to Mr. Allion at Hetzel, Verne’s publisher. In full (translat
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Kurt Vonnegut686 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Signed book: Deadeye Dick. First edition, first printing. NY: Delacorte Press, 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 240 pages. Signed on the
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Evelyn Waugh687 - Evelyn Waugh
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Signed book: Vile Bodies. Later printing. London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5, 216 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title pa...
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Voltaire688 - Voltaire
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Scarce ALS in French, signed “le vieux malade Voltaire votre ancien serviteur [the old sick Voltaire, your old servant],” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman689 - Walt Whitman
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Signed book: Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman. First edition, limited issue, numbered 188/600. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1888–1889. Hardco
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Emile Zola690 - Emile Zola
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ALS in French, one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, August 31, 1867. Letter to a publisher regarding the final installment of a serialized novel, in part
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Authors691 - Authors
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Fine collection of three first edition books which were adapted into successful films—all of which were nominated for or won an Academy Award—all hard
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Authors692 - Authors
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Signed book: Lord John Ten. First edition, limited issue, numbered 33/250. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1988. Hardcover, 7.25 x 9.75, 240
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James M. Barrie693 - James M. Barrie
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ALS signed “J. M. Barrie,” one page, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, January 21, 1919. Letter to the editor of the Daily Mail, in full: “If you care to
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Katherine Lee Bates694 - Katherine Lee Bates
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ANS, one page, 5.5 x 5.5, Wellesley College, Department of English Literature letterhead, May 25, 1917. A note to Mr. Underwood, in full: “Splendid an
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Earl Derr Biggers695 - Earl Derr Biggers
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American novelist and playwright (1884–1933) best known for creating the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. TLS signed “Biggers,” one
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Ray Bradbury696 - Ray Bradbury
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Signed book: The Stories of Ray Bradbury. First edition, first printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5, 884 pages.
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Charles Bukowski697 - Charles Bukowski
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Signed book: War All the Time. First edition, limited issue, numbered 319/400. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 280 p
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Truman Capote698 - Truman Capote
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Ink signature, “To Peter, Truman Capote,” on a peach-colored 5.75 x 4 album page. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Cheever699 - John Cheever
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Signed book: The Wapshot Chronicle/The Wapshot Scandal. First edition, later printing. NY: Harper & Row, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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