RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Military

Sought-after ink signature, "Virginia Woolf,” on a blue 3.25 x 1.75 slip affixed to a beige 4.75 x 8 sheet; attached below the signature is a b...

TQS on an off-white 6 x 4 card, signed below in black ballpoint by Asimov. In full: "I have been avid to learn and avid to teach. When I was se...

American writer (1842–c.1914) best known for his vivid short stories (including the classic 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge') and his sat...

Desirable unsigned book: A Clockwork Orange. First American edition. NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 184 ...

TLS signed “E. R. Burroughs,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, October 13, 1926. Letter to John M. Stahl of Radio W. L. S., in full: "T...

TLS signed “Jim,” two pages, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, June 29, 1958. Letter to famed Hollywood agent H. N. Swanson, in part: "I am deep into...

Signed book: 2010: Odyssey Two. First edition, limited issue, numbered 156/650. Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Hardcover with dust jacke

ALS signed “Jean,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, November 27, 1957. Short letter to a friend, in part (translated): "I send you the letter I send to o...

ALS in French, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, November 19, 1961. Letter addressed to "Theatre Artists" in Toronto, in which Cocteau expresses his ...

British author (1824–1889) regarded as the first British detective story writer. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhea

American lawyer and politician (1815–1882) best known as the author of the best-selling 1840 nautical memoir Two Years Before the Mast. ALS signed “R

French writer and dramatist (1824–1895) best known for Camille and for being the illegitimate son of famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. Untranslated ALS

Two items: an ink signature, "Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow, 1875.," on an off-white 4 x 2 slip; and an ALS signed "Oliver Wendell...

American author (1836–1902) best known for his colorful tales of California pioneers, including the much-anthologized story 'The Outcasts of Pok...

Fountain pen signature, "Rudyard Kipling,” on an off-white 2.25 x .5 slip affixed and pinned to a transmittal letter in another hand. The lette...

TLS, one page, 5 x 8, Burwash, Etchingham letterhead, September 28, 1935. Letter to Captain A. B. Kennair, in full: "Thank you very much for yo...

Jewish-Hungarian author (1905–1983) best known for the anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon. TLS signed “A. Koestler,” one page, 6.25 x 8, personal l

Writer (1895–1976) whose compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West. Signed book: The Importance

Vintage ink signature, "Lin Yutang,” on an off-white 5.5 x 3.5 card bearing an affixed image of the Chinese scribe. In fine condition, with ton...

ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, March 17, 1874. Letter to British poet Alfred Austin, in part: "...

TLS in German, one page, 8.5 x 11, October 30, 1938. Letter to the Hungarian-born conductor Zoltan Fekete, in part (loosely translated): "Thank...

Signed book: If I Die in a Combat Zone. First British edition. London: Calder & Boyars, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 199 pages. Si...

Signed book: The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. First edition. NY: Ballantine Books, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5 x 7.25

AQS on an off-white 6.5 x 7.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion, "Gradually thawing out, your old-time spring and summer friend, James Whitcomb R...

English poet, author and soldier (1886-1967). Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. A

Three fine items made by Halcyon Days in Bilston, England, including: a 2.25? tall miniature hand-painted porcelain bust of William Shakespeare; a lim

Signed book: Cosmic Engineers. First edition. NY: Gnome Press, 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 224 pages. Signed on the title page in b

Russian writer (1866–1933) and son of Leo Tolstoy. ALS signed “Count Ilya Tolstoy,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8.5, embossed crest let

Signed book: Jumanji. First edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.25 x 10, 28 pages. Signed and inscribe

ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, Spade House, Sandgate letterhead, April 5, 1901. Wells forwards his work to a "damned magazine," in part: "P...

ALS signed “Old ('Sagebrush Joe') Thornton,” one page both sides, 6 x 7, 50 Deepwood Drive letterhead, January 16, 1962. In full: "Many...

Signed book: Androgyne, Mon Amour. Limited edition, numbered 5/200. NY: New Directions, 1977. Clothbound hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.5, 92 pages

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, no date. Letter to "Mr. Pape," in part: "You have a good eye. The excerpt is indeed different from the chapt...

ALS in French, signed “H. Berlioz,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. Letter to his friend Edouard Alexandre, an organ manufacturer, on moving his piano

Partly-printed DS in French, one page, 6 x 5, August 25, 1910. Payment receipt from the Kursaal d'Ostende for "the concert of 21 August 191...

Italian composer (1797–1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in French, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 4.25 x 6.75, no da

Polish-American composer (1903–1951). Autograph musical manuscript, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 10.5 x 13.5, signed at the conclusion, "...

Excessively rare and extremely desirable manuscript DS in German, one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, July 21, 1801. Untranslated contract in which Haydn c

Desirable AMQS on an off-white 8.25 x 5.25 sheet, crisply signed in bold ink, "Edvard Grieg, Warschau," and dated April 14. Grieg pens thr...

German composer and conductor (1780–1849) best remembered for his romantic opera Das Nachtlager in Granada. Interesting autograph document in German,

ALS in French, signed “F. Liszt,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.75, August 6, 1840. Letter to a friend, in part (translated): "...

Eminent and prolific Russian composer (1891–1953) best known for his colorful, rhythmically vigorous works, including symphonies, operas, and much mus

Vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Puccini in a bust-length pose, signed vertically in fountain pen. Reverse postmarked June 25, 1905. I

ALS in French,, one page, 4.25 x 5.75, June 7, 1919. Letter to his friend, the poet Rene Chalupt, in part (translated): "That holds, your prefa...

Distinguished pianist (1819–1896) of the Romantic era. Scarce ALS in German, six pages, 4.5 x 7, August 27, 1894. Written from Chalet Heschi, a letter

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, November 7, 1950. Letter to Mr. H. Bittner of New York, in part: "I have received your letter ...

AMQS on an off-white 7.5 x 5.75 sheet, signed at the bottom in ink, "John Philip Sousa, 1903." Sousa pens three bars of music from his mil...

ALS in Italian, signed “G. Verdi,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, [annotated February 9, 1877 on the reverse]. Letter to his close colleague Mauro Corticelli,

ANS in Italian, signed “G. V.,” one page, 8 x 6, no date. Handwritten telegram in which Verdi thanks the orchestra of Rome and its great master for th

Brilliant AMQS on a beige-colored 6 x 4.5 album page, signed boldly in fountain pen, "Good wishes, George Gershwin, Feb. 20, 1932," who be...