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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Charles Schulz565 - Charles Schulz
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Unusually large felt tip sketch of Snoopy sitting in the grass on a white 11 x 14 canvas board, signed “Schulz.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a p
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz566 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: Peanuts. First edition. NY: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1952. Paperback, 5.25 x 8. Signed and inscribed later on the first free end page ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Schulz567 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: Snoopy and His Sopwith Camel. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 64 pages. Sign
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Garry Trudeau568 - Garry Trudeau
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Original signed felt tip sketch of Mike Doonesbury in profile on an off-white 8.5 x 9.25 sheet, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “For Lori Bart
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Myron Waldman569 - Myron Waldman
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Original graphite and felt tip sketch entitled ‘Soccer Practice,’ showing Popeye coaching his four nephews on the soccer field, accomplished by Waldma
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Alice in Wonderland: Alice Liddell570 - Alice in Wonderland: Alice Liddell
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Signed book: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Limited edition, numbered 33/1500. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover, 6 x 9, 183 pages. Signed
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Estimate : 1,400.00 - 1,600.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens571 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Handwritten manuscript by Clemens, signed within the text, “Mark Twain,” one page, 5.75 x 8.75, circa 1908. Clemens writes down a ‘compliment’ on a sh
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Charlotte Bronte572 - Charlotte Bronte
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Extremely desirable ink signature, “Believe me, Yours sincerely, C. Bronte,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2 slip clipped from the end of a letter. Affixed to
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens573 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Ink signature, “Mark Twain,” on an off-white 4.5 x 3 album page affixed to a larger scrapbook page above the original mailing envelope. In fine condit
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Charles Dickens574 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 6, Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, October 22, 1863. Letter to the Earl Russell, in part: “Accept my most
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens575 - Charles Dickens
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Attractive ink signature, “Thursday Fourth February 1864, Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens,” on an off-white 4.5 x 7 sheet of his personal Gad’s Hill
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Charles Dickens576 - Charles Dickens
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Third-person ANS signed within the text, one page, 4.5 x 6.75, December 8, 1849. In part: “Mr. Charles Dickens regrets exceedingly that he is engaged
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T. S. Eliot577 - T. S. Eliot
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Signed book: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Later printing. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Hardcover, 8.75 x 6.25, 46 pages. Signed and
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald578 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ink signature, “F. Scott Fitzgerald,” on an off-white 6 x 1.5 slip clipped from the closing of a document dated December 29, 1938. Matted and framed w
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald579 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Signed book: This Side of Paradise. First edition, third printing with tipped-in ‘Author’s Apology.’ NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcove...
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Estimate : 7,000.00 - 9,000.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming580 - Ian Fleming
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, July 9, 1951. Letter to journalist and spy Antony Terry of the British Press Centre. In full: “I atta
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Robert Frost581 - Robert Frost
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Boldly penned ALS, one page, 5 x 6.75, November 17, 1930. Letter to Martha E. Sacks, in full: “Suppose we make it February 6th then. That will be the
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Robert Frost582 - Robert Frost
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Matte-finish 4 x 5.75 photo of Frost in a suit and tie, affixed to the opening page of his 1944 essay The Four Beliefs, signed and inscribed on the pa
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Dashiell Hammett583 - Dashiell Hammett
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DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, November 24, 1931. Scarce document sent to Edward Choate from Hammett concerning the royalties terms for the “dramatization of
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway584 - Ernest Hemingway
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Extremely scarce vintage glossy 10 x 8 group photo of Hemingway, his wife Mary, and others seated at a dinner party, signed and inscribed on the rever
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Henrik Ibsen585 - Henrik Ibsen
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Choice original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet bust portrait of the bespectacled and heavily whiskered Ibsen, boldly signed in the lower right in black ink. In ve
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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T. E. Lawrence586 - T. E. Lawrence
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ALS signed “T. E. S.,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, September 17, 1929. Letter to his friend and neighbor Pat Knowles. In part: “I move to London on leave tom
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Harper Lee587 - Harper Lee
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TQS on an off-white 6 x 4 card, signed in black felt tip by Lee. An excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird, in full: “‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if
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Jack London588 - Jack London
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, no date but postmarked September 28, 1903, with London’s personal ink stamp. Letter to C. C. Buel, the editor of The Century
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow589 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, November 5, 1878. In full: “It would give me pleasure to comply with your request, if
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Margaret Mitchell590 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” two pages, 7 x 10.75, personal letterhead, February 19, 1940. Letter to Robert Saltmarsh, a New Bedford, Massach
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Estimate : 2,800.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell591 - Margaret Mitchell
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Signed book: Gone With the Wind. First edition, first printing. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Hardcover with second-issue dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 10
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Sean O’Casey592 - Sean O’Casey
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Irish playwright (1880-1964) best known for such working-class dramas as The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock. ALS signed “Sean,” one pag
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Flannery O’Connor593 - Flannery O’Connor
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Georgia-born American writer (1925–1964), best known for her quintessentially ‘Southern Gothic’ stories and novels, who died of lupus at the age of 39
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust594 - Marcel Proust
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Signed book: Pastiches et Melanges. Second edition. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. Rebound marbled hardcover with original wrappers inside, 5.
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Thomas Pynchon595 - Thomas Pynchon
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DS, signed “Thomas Pynchon,” one page, 7.75 x 12.75, November 24, 1966. Memorandum of an agreement in which Pynchon grants the publishing company Gyld
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand596 - Ayn Rand
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Signed book: The Fountainhead. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 727 pages.
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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Peter M. Roget597 - Peter M. Roget
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British physician and lexicographer (1779–1869) known for compiling his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. ALS signed “P. M. Roget,” one page, 4.
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George Sand598 - George Sand
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Untranslated ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8, blindstamped monogram letterhead, March 3, no year. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre599 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Signed book: Five Plays. Limited edition. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover, 6 x 8.75, 484 pages. Signed on the first free end pa
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Sir Walter Scott600 - Sir Walter Scott
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ANS signed “Walter Scott,” one page, 7 x 4, no date but docketed November 24, 1831 on the reverse. In full: “I enclose you the amount of my account up
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck601 - John Steinbeck
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ALS signed “John,” one page, 6.25 x 7, no date. Letter to editor Pascal Covici, in part: “I’m called out to a dinner I cannot avoid. I’ll be back as s
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck602 - John Steinbeck
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DS, three onionskin pages, 8.5 x 11, January 11, 1963. Agreement between Steinbeck and David Merrick granting rights to turn his Viva Zapata! screenpl
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 1,800.00
 
 
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Robert Louis Stevenson603 - Robert Louis Stevenson
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ALS signed “R. L. S.,” one page, 4.25 x 4, no date. Letter to Alexander Ireland, in full: “Did I ever tell you with how great an interest I had read y
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Bram Stoker and Henry Irving604 - Bram Stoker and Henry Irving
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LS signed “Henry Irving,” written in the hand of his secretary, Dracula author Bram Stoker, one page, 5 x 8, Lyceum Theatre letterhead, April 6, 1894.
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Henry David Thoreau605 - Henry David Thoreau
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Sought-after handwritten manuscript contained within the first volume of the 1906 ‘manuscript edition’ of Thoreau’s works, one page both sides, 7.5 x
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells606 - H. G. Wells
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ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 5.5, June 7, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In full: “We shall arrive, in our best clothes & behaviour, with tick...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells607 - H. G. Wells
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Unsigned transmittal envelope from Wells to H. E. Hadley, 4.75 x 3.5, addressed in Wells’s hand, “Hadley F.R.S., Physics,” with a note in the upper ri
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells608 - H. G. Wells
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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, blindstamped Spade House letterhead, April 6, 1904. Letter to aeronautical engineer John William Dunne, one of his close frien
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Estimate : 2,200.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Emile Zola609 - Emile Zola
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Outstanding AQS in French on an off-white 5.25 x 8 sheet, prominently signed in the center. In full (translated): “A work of art is a corner of nature
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Isaac Asimov610 - Isaac Asimov
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TLS signed “Isaac,” one page, 8.5 x 11, May 13, 1968. Letter to Jeanne Malone, in part: “I am completely against the Vietnam war and sympathize with d
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Isaac Asimov611 - Isaac Asimov
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, December 8, 1966. Letter to Maggie Rose, in part: “I have been writing science fiction since 1938, have
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Ambrose Bierce612 - Ambrose Bierce
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American writer (1842–c.1914) best known for his vivid short stories (including the classic ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’) and his satirical ‘Th
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Ambrose Bierce613 - Ambrose Bierce
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American writer (1842–c.1914) best known for his vivid short stories (including the classic ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’) and his satirical ‘Th
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William Cullen Bryant614 - William Cullen Bryant
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ALS signed “W. C. Bryant,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, January 22, 1875. Letter to political journalist George Harvey, regarding B
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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