Auction Details
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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423Victor HugoRR Auction
Contemporary manuscript copy of Victor Hugo’s birth certificate, in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.75, February 27, 1802. Document headed (translated),...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
424Harper LeeRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
425Sylvia PlathRR Auction
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
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
426Sir Walter ScottRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
427Maurice SendakRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
428John SteinbeckRR Auction
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
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
429John SteinbeckRR Auction
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
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
430Harriet Beecher StoweRR Auction
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
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
431J. R. R. TolkienRR Auction
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
Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
432VoltaireRR Auction
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
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00