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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William S. Burroughs615 - William S. Burroughs
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Glossy 9 x 11 photo of Burroughs taking aim with a rifle, boldly signed in the lower border in fountain pen. In very fine condition. An unusual image
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James M. Cain616 - James M. Cain
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American novelist (1892–1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. TLS, one pa
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Truman Capote617 - Truman Capote
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ALS signed “Truman C.,” one page on a 4 x 5.75 postcard depicting a tranquil moment on the Greek isle of Paros, no date. Letter to Boris Groudinko, in
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Truman Capote618 - Truman Capote
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Signed book: One Christmas. Limited first edition, numbered 133/500. NY: Random House, 1983. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.5 x 9.75, 41 pages. Signed on
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Malcolm Cowley and Morrill Cody619 - Malcolm Cowley and Morrill Cody
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Two signed books: a Limited Editions Club hardcover entitled Exile’s Return, numbered 1371/2000, signed on the colophon ink by Malcolm Cowley and phot
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Countee Cullen620 - Countee Cullen
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African-American poet (1903–1946) who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Autograph poem on an off-white 8 x 10.5 sheet entitled ‘Revela
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Gabriele d’Annunzio621 - Gabriele d’Annunzio
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Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist (1863–1938) who distinguished himself as a heroic aviator in WWI. Appealing vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 Itali
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Anatole France622 - Anatole France
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Untranslated ALS in French, one page, 4 x 6.5, personal letterhead stamped with France’s “FA” monogram, no date but postmarked July 9, 1895. In fine c
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Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan623 - Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan
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Pair of collaborative handwritten poems from Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan on individual yellow 7 x 4.5 personalized postcards designed by Berrigan,
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Graham Greene624 - Graham Greene
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Circa 1962 Saint–Georges Theatre program for a French production of The Potting Shed, 5.25 x 7, 36 pages, signed and inscribed below his image on the
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Zane Grey625 - Zane Grey
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Partly-printed DS, one page, 8.5 x 14, July 24, 1922. Los Angeles county bail bond for Girchie Takabash in which Grey agrees to “pay to the people of
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr626 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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ALS signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, June 21, 1886. Letter to English neurologist William Broadbent, treasurer of the Bri
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Henry James627 - Henry James
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Third-person ANS signed within the text, one page, 5 x 8, Bolton Street letterhead, July 15, no year. In full: “Mr. Henry James accepts with pleasure
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Ken Kesey628 - Ken Kesey
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Souvenir typescript of the opening from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed in black ink and blue felt tip, “Ken Kesey, 1995,”
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Harper Lee629 - Harper Lee
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Ink signature, “Harper Lee,” on a white 5.75 x 4 sheet. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
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Sinclair Lewis630 - Sinclair Lewis
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TLS, one page, 7 x 10.5, October 26, 1940. Short letter to Mr. A. S. Burack of The Writer, in full: “I don’t think I shall have any lecture notes for
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W. Somerset Maugham631 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Uncommon matte-finish 4 x 6 portrait of Maugham in profile, signed in the lower border in blue ballpoint. Attractively double-matted and framed. In fi
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Henry Miller632 - Henry Miller
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, March 13, 1959. Letter to Ernst Riemschneider, in part: “Have you seen the Reworked ed. of ‘Big Sur’ book? It’s in Bartell’s
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Eugene O’Neill633 - Eugene O’Neill
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Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 5.5 x 4.25, addressed by O’Neill to “John Macy, Esq., 214 East 39th Street, New York City,” and signed on the flap, “
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Jean Richepin634 - Jean Richepin
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist (1849–1926). Untranslated typescript of the poem “Le basier des drapeaux,” six pages, 8 x 12, boldly signed on th
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