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