RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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RR Auction’s May Fine Autographs & Artifacts sale features more than 850 rare and remarkable lots, with highlights to include an extremely rare signature of Declaration signer Thomas Lynch, Jr., a post-Beatles check signed by Lennon and McCartney, a Winston Churchill publishing archive, autographs of rare Cuban revolutionaries, and a scarce document from King Henry VIII. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in May 2017.
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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William Butler Yeats513 - William Butler Yeats
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ALS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter to Sir Hugh Lane, the nephew of Lady Gregory. In full: "I may have to go to Dublin...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Emile Zola514 - Emile Zola
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Prolific French journalist, novelist, and activist (1840–1902) known as one of the leading figures of naturalism. Boldly penned ALS in French, one pag
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Stefan Zweig515 - Stefan Zweig
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Austrian novelist and playwright (1881–1942). TLS, one page, 8 x 10, November 14, 1934. Letter to Cyril Lakin, in full: "You may be quite sure ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Richard Adams516 - Richard Adams
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Black ballpoint signature, "Richard Adams," on a 4.25 x 2.75 bookplate loosely laid in to a first American edition of Watership Down, hard...
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Edward Albee517 - Edward Albee
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AQS penned inside a 4.25 x 5.5 card from Young Harris College, titled and signed at the bottom, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Act I. Edw...
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Charles Bukowski518 - Charles Bukowski
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Uncommon ALS signed "Buk," one page, 8.5 x 11, January 22, 1978. Letter to Carl Soares, in full: "Your interest in my work is good an...
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Francis Carco519 - Francis Carco
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French author and art critic (1886–1958). ALS in French, one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.5, October 17, 1934. Complimentary letter to a poet, in part (
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Henri Charriere520 - Henri Charriere
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Convicted murderer and author of Papillon (1906–1973), an account of his time in a penal colony in French Guiana, later turned into a film starring St
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Joseph Conrad521 - Joseph Conrad
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ALS signed “J. Conrad,” one page on a 4.5 x 3.5 Capel House stationery card, May 27, 1911. Letter to J. B. Pinker in London, in full: "Thanks v...
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James Fenimore Cooper522 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Otsego County Bank check, 5.25 x 2.25, filled out and signed by Cooper, "J. Fenimore Cooper," payable to Lorenzo Weeks for $5, December 11...
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Isaac D'Israeli523 - Isaac D'Israeli
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British writer and scholar (1766–1848) who is best known for his essays, letters, and for being the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
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Erle Stanley Gardner524 - Erle Stanley Gardner
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Lawyer-turned-writer (1889–1970) best known as the creator of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason. TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead
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Ernest Hemingway525 - Ernest Hemingway
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Desirable unsigned book: The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first printing (with “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright page); in original dust jac
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Hermann Hesse526 - Hermann Hesse
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Souvenir typescript in German of the poem 'Toward Peace,' one page both sides, 5.5 x 6.75, dated Easter 1945, signed and inscribed at the co...
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Langston Hughes527 - Langston Hughes
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Signed book: The Weary Blues. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.75, 109 pages. Signed and inscribed on t
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Stephen King528 - Stephen King
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Book: Carrie. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket ($5.95 price on front flap, "P6"...
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Stephen King529 - Stephen King
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Signed book: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. First edition. NY: Scribner, 2015. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 495 pages. Signed on the title page i
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Rudyard Kipling530 - Rudyard Kipling
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, November 22, 1901. Letter to M. Saint-Georges de Bouhelier, in part: "I an very greatly indebted to you for your letter…...
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Harper Lee531 - Harper Lee
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ALS signed “Nelle,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 9, personal letterhead, October 5, 2007. Letter to her close friend and New York neighbor Bruce Higgins
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Jack London532 - Jack London
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Bank check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out and signed by London, payable to Honolulu Auto Stand Co. for $35, February 5, 1915. Encapsulated in a plastic PSA/D
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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