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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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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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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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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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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