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 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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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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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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