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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Pink Panther production cels and drawings from Pink Panther806 - Pink Panther production cels and drawings from Pink Panther
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(DePatie-Freleng, circa 1980s) Three original production cels and matching drawings featuring Pink Panther from the Pink Panther TV show, showing him
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Color key painting from All Dogs Go to Heaven807 - Color key painting from All Dogs Go to Heaven
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(Sullivan Bluth Studios, 1989) Original color key painting from All Dogs Go to Heaven, showing Itchy Itchiford, Anne-Marie, and Charlie B. Barkin, wit
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Samantha Stevens limited edition cel from Bewitched808 - Samantha Stevens limited edition cel from Bewitched
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(Columbia TriStar, 1999) Limited edition hand-painted cel based on the opening title series of Bewitched, numbered 210/300, showing the witch flying o
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Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Honore de Balzac809 - Honore de Balzac
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ALS in French, signed “de Balzac,” one page, 3.5 x 4.5, September 12, no year but likely circa 1832. Letter to Jules Mabit, written from Aix-les-Bains
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Truman Capote810 - Truman Capote
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Signed book: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Eighth printing. NY: Random House, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 179 pages. Signed on the first
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Truman Capote811 - Truman Capote
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Sought-after unsigned book: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. First edition, first printing. NY: Random House, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 17
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Raymond Chandler812 - Raymond Chandler
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DS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, April 19, 1946. Agreement between Chandler and Paramount Pictures in which he confirms “that the employment agreement between
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens813 - Samuel L. Clemens
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First National Bank of Hartford check, 7.75 x 2.75, boldly filled out and signed by Clemens, “Samuel L. Clemens,” payable to Estes & Lauriat for...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens814 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Crystal-clear matte-finish 6.5 x 9 photo of Clemens wearing one of his classic white suits in a seated three-quarter-length pose, affixed to an 8 x 11
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens815 - Samuel L. Clemens
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ALS, in pencil, signed “S. L. Clemens,” one page, 3.5 x 5.25, no date. Brief letter to Mr. Hutchins. In full: “This is to introduce my friends Paige a
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens816 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Handsome 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Clemens, signed on the reverse in black ink, “Truly yours, Mark Twain,” with an ANS below in German (translated),
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens817 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, November 29, 1864. Letter to General C. B. Phipps. In full: “I have been in France this last twel
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens818 - Charles Dickens
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Mess. Coutts & Company check, 7.5 x 3.75, filled out and signed by Dickens, payable to Mr. Thomas Hills for £2.5.0, September 22, 1868. In ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens819 - Charles Dickens
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Crisply penned ALS, one page, 4.25 x 6.75, July 18, 1850. Written from Devonshire Terrace, a letter to his bankers, Coutts & Co., in full: “I be...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Charles L. Dodgson820 - Charles L. Dodgson
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Beloved British author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll (1832–1898). ANS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one p
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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William Faulkner821 - William Faulkner
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Signed book: Intruder in the Dust. First edition, first printing. NY: Random House, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 247 pages. Signed an
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald822 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ALS signed “Scott F.,” one page, 4.75 x 7, March 27, 1921. Letter to “Tom,” written from Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s childhood home at “6 Pleasant Ave, M
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald823 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Signed book: Flappers and Philosophers. First edition, later printing. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 7.75, 269
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Robert Frost824 - Robert Frost
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Fascinating ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, no date. Response penned at the conclusion of a four page typed poem by Carl E. Hirsh entitled ‘To Robert Frost,’
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Maxim Gorky825 - Maxim Gorky
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Signed book: Orloff and His Wife. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5, 485 pages. Boldly signed on a free en...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway826 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Volume 4935 of the Collection of British and American Authors series. Liepzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, no date. Hardcover
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway827 - Ernest Hemingway
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Personal check, 8.5 x 3.25, filled out and signed by Hemingway, “Ernest M. Hemingway,” payable to Roberto Herrera for $150, September 7, 1954. In fine
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Julia Ward Howe828 - Julia Ward Howe
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Desirable AQS, one page, 8.5 x 4.75, June 1908. Ward pens the opening four lines from her poem ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic,’ in full: “Mine eyes
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Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
 
 
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Washington Irving829 - Washington Irving
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ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8, December 17, 1853. Letter to John Tucker Prince, in part: “You ask for some anecdote of a journey
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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James Joyce830 - James Joyce
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Signed book: Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. First edition, limited issue, number 72 of 100 copies on Japanese vellum. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929.
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Jack Kerouac831 - Jack Kerouac
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Signed book: Visions of Cody. First edition, limited issue, numbered 283/750. NY: New Directions, 1960. Hardcover, 5.25 x 8.5, 128 pages. Signed on th
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling832 - Rudyard Kipling
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 6.5, April 27, 1894. Letter to Thomas Hutchinson, in full: “Your sonnet to hand. Yours is indeed a deadly trade—the hobby of aut
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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T. E. Lawrence833 - T. E. Lawrence
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Fantastic ALS signed “T. E. Shaw,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 6.75, December 11, 1928. Letter to writer Henry Williamson, written from M
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Yukio Mishima834 - Yukio Mishima
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ALS, three pages, 10 x 7, Biwako Hotel letterhead, September 5, 1963. Letter to novelist John Goodwin, in part: “I finally got a chance to read your ‘
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell835 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, July 17, 1940. Letter to Mr. Gates, in full: “I haven't an ide...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell836 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 11, personal letterhead, February 25, 1937. Letter to Mrs. Mahon, in part: “I appreciated so very much the things you wrote me a
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Sean O’Casey837 - Sean O’Casey
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ALS signed “Sean,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7, personal letterhead, November 22, 1960. Letter to Lewis Funke, the drama editor at the New York Time
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 1,800.00
 
 
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Samuel Pepys838 - Samuel Pepys
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British civil servant (1633–1703) best remembered as the author of a nine-year, multi-volume diary, one of the essential documents of 17th century Bri
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Rainer Maria Rilke839 - Rainer Maria Rilke
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ALS in German, signed “R. M. Rilke,” one page both sides, 6.25 x 8.25, March 16, 1922. Letter to Mr. Jaffe, written from his home at Chateau de Muzot,
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Maurice Sendak840 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: The Art of Maurice Sendak. First edition. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.75 x 11, 278 pages. Signed and
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw841 - George Bernard Shaw
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TLS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, January 10, 1936. Letter to Vernon Bartlett, in part: “On the 22nd we start on a
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Samuel Francis Smith842 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Beautifully penned AQS on an off-white 5.75 x 12 sheet, signed at the conclusion in ink, “S. F. Smith.” Smith pens the four original verses of ‘Americ
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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John Steinbeck843 - John Steinbeck
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, November 12, 1962. Letter to Mrs. Bauer, in full: “I can’t tell you how happy your letter of congratulat
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Harriet Beecher Stowe844 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Lengthy AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 7.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion, “Harriet Beecher Stowe, April 25, 1892.” Stowe quotes from the preface of Uncle
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Henry David Thoreau845 - Henry David Thoreau
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Fantastic handwritten manuscript, unsigned, one page both sides, 7.5 x 9.5, no date but circa 1854. A page from Thoreau’s draft for his ‘Moonlight’ le
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy846 - Leo Tolstoy
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Unusual hand-tinted 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of a little girl, boldly signed across the top in black ink, “Leon Tolstoy.” In fine condition. Accompani
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Jules Verne847 - Jules Verne
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ALS in French, one page, 3.75 x 5, no date. Untranslated letter inquiring about lodging for one night. Matted and framed. In fine condition, with ligh
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells848 - H. G. Wells
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ALS signed “Wells,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.5 x 8, June 3, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In part (spelling and grammar retained): “Are yo
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman849 - Walt Whitman
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Signed book: Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman. First edition, limited issue, numbered 214/600. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1888–89. Orig...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman850 - Walt Whitman
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Scarce vintage 4 x 5.5 photo of Whitman resting his head in his hand, affixed to its original 6 x 8.5 mount, signed on the mount in black ink, “Walt W
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling851 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. First edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8, 766 pages. Sign
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling852 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. First edition, third printing. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8,
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Estimate : 5,500.00 - 6,500.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling853 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. First edition, first printing. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8,
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling854 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Deluxe first edition, first printing. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 317 page
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling855 - J. K. Rowling
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Signed book: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Deluxe collector’s edition. London: Children's High Level Group, 2008. Ornately embellished hardcover...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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