RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in rare and remarkable documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historical artifacts. Among the highlights of this month’s sale are a special autograph sheet from Abraham Lincoln and his ‘Team of Rivals’ cabinet, a handwritten letter by the heroic Oskar Schindler, a massive signed photo of Charles Dickens, and a silver medal from the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Join us as we prepare to make history selling history in September 2016.
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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Maurice Sendak503 - Maurice Sendak
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Two items: an edition of Herman Melville’s Pierre or The Ambiguities, hardcover with dust jacket, signed on the half-title page in black felt tip by i
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Maurice Sendak504 - Maurice Sendak
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Dust jacket proof for Down the Rabbit Hole, 23 x 8.75, signed and inscribed in black ink in the lower right corner, “April ’71, For Barbara & Si...
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Maurice Sendak505 - Maurice Sendak
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Color 18.5 x 24 poster featuring a Wild Thing made for the tenth anniversary of the New York Book Fair in 1988, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip,
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Ernest Thompson Seton506 - Ernest Thompson Seton
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Nature writer (1860–1946) who founded the modern school of animal fiction and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. Collection of three related item
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Ernest Thompson Seton507 - Ernest Thompson Seton
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Signed book: Wild Animals I Have Known. Limited edition, ninth impression, numbered 745/1000. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.2
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Michael Shaara508 - Michael Shaara
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Author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction (1928–1988) known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about the Battle of Gettysbur
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Robert Silverberg509 - Robert Silverberg
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American author and editor (born 1935) who is best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member
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Jessie Willcox Smith510 - Jessie Willcox Smith
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Prominent female artist during the Golden Age of American illustration (1863–1935) who contributed to publications such as Century, Collier's, L...
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Gertrude Stein511 - Gertrude Stein
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Signed book: How to Write. Limited first edition, ‘Plain Edition’ of 1000 copies. Paris: Darantiere Press, 1931. Hardcover, 4.25 x 6.5, 395 pages. Sig
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John Steinbeck512 - John Steinbeck
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Crisp ink signature, “John Steinbeck,” on a white 3 x 2.25 card stapled to a larger card. In fine condition, with a staple to the upper left corner, e
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Bram Stoker and Henry Irving513 - Bram Stoker and Henry Irving
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LS signed “Henry Irving,” written in the hand of his secretary, Dracula author Bram Stoker, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, June 9, 1885.
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Ruth Plumly Thompson514 - Ruth Plumly Thompson
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Children’s writer (1891–1976) best known for her stories set in Oz. Letter and poem sent to an American serviceman during World War II: an ALS signed
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Studs Terkel515 - Studs Terkel
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Signed book: Giants of Jazz. First edition, first printing. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 215 pages. Si
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James Thurber516 - James Thurber
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Original sheet music booklet for the sixth annual production of Tell Me Not, presented by The Scarlet Mask Club of The Ohio State University for the 1
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James Thurber517 - James Thurber
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Signed book: The Thurber Carnival. Fourth edition. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 369 pages. Signed and i...
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James Thurber518 - James Thurber
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Signed book: The Beast in Me and Other Animals. First edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 340 pages. Signed and ins
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James Thurber519 - James Thurber
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TLS signed in pencil “James Thurber,” one page, 8.5 x 9.5, July 13, 1953. Letter to Patricia Bunker, in part: “If I could be persuaded to drink Scotch
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Charles Dudley Warner520 - Charles Dudley Warner
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Autograph manuscript written in the hand of Warner, unsigned, two pages, each 5.75 x 8.25, no date but circa 1873. Two extracts from the novel The Gil
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E. B. White521 - E. B. White
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American essayist, humorist, author, and editor (1899–1985) best known for his longtime association with the New Yorker magazine and for his best-sell
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John Greenleaf Whittier522 - John Greenleaf Whittier
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Rare handwritten poem on an off-white 6 x 7.25 album page, signed at the conclusion in black ink, “John G. Whittier, Boston 11th Mo 17, 1881.” In full
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