RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Contemporary manuscript copy of Victor Hugo’s birth certificate, in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.75, February 27, 1802. Document headed (translated),...

ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, February 20, 1995. Letter to Don Salter, in full: “I apologize for being so loud on the page, but this is my only working pen

Two original typescript drafts for the story ‘The Green Rock,’ totaling 23 pages, 8.5 x 11, dated 1949, one of them extensively hand-corrected through

Handwritten manuscript fragment, unsigned, one page, 8 x 10, no date but circa 1830. A page from the draft for Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witch

Signed book: The Art of Maurice Sendak. First edition. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. Hardcover with lettered acetate dust jacket, 11.75 x 10.75, 278 page

DS, eight pages, 8.5 x 11, June 11, 1963. Agreement between Steinbeck and David Merrick for a stage adaptation of the film Viva Zapata!, in which Stei

Signed book: The Viking Portable Library of Steinbeck. Later printing. NY: Viking Press, 1943. Hardcover with dust jacket, 4.5 x 7, 568 pages. Signed

AQS on an off-white 3.5 x 2.5 card, in full: “Trust in the Lord and Do good Faith and Works. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sept. 8th 1893.” Nicely cloth-matt

TLS, one page, 7 x 9, personal letterhead, May 24, 1968. Letter to Mary Fairburn, an artist who sent him paintings of several scenes from Lord of the

Scarce ALS in French, signed “le vieux malade Voltaire votre ancien serviteur [the old sick Voltaire, your old servant],” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7

TLS, two pages, 5.25 x 5.75, February 5, 1965. Letter to Mrs. Raymond, in part: “How kind of you to send me the snapshots of the Sleeping Beauty Castl

Midland Bank Limited check, 5.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Woolf, payable to her husband Leonard Woolf for £1, November 30, 1927. Endorsed o...

ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 7, November 24, 1898. Letter concerning an edition of his novella Angeline. In part (translated): "I find the pr...

Ink signature, “L. M. Alcott,” on an off-white 4.5 x 1.5 slip affixed to a slightly larger sheet. In very good to fine condition, with light show-thro

Educator and poet (1859–1929) best known for the lyrics to the iconic patriotic song “America the Beautiful.” ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets,

Belgian-born American author and illustrator (1898–1962) best known for his now-classic series of Madeleine children’s books. TLS, one page, 8.25 x 9.

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

Rare mimeographed and hand-stapled Futuria Fantasia ‘magazine,’ Winter 1940, 8.5 x 11, 19 pages, signed and inscribed on the front cover in black ball

Three first edition books, each hardcover with dust jacket, and signed on an opening page in ink or felt tip by Bradbury, with two inscribed. Titles i

Signed book: The Martian Chronicles. 40th anniversary edition. NY: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 205 pages. Signed and insc