RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Military

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With over 850 lots, RR Auction’s March Fine Autograph and Artifact sale offers a wide variety of material for history buffs, music lovers, sports fans, movie mavens, and more! Our highlighted military section ranges from European conflicts of the 17th century through World War II, and features everything from autographs to weapons and uniforms. Art and literature also take a leading role, with autograph letters from the likes of Monet, Matisse, Lautrec, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickens, and Tolstoy. Marvels of classical music include a Haydn contract, Liszt letter, and Verdi note, while Gershwin, Guthrie, and Lennon round out our modern selection. 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 March 2018.
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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Octave Mirbeau599 - Octave Mirbeau
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French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the publ
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Vladimir Nabokov600 - Vladimir Nabokov
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Rare DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 4, 1969. Document extending a deadline for an option agreement between Nabokov and McGraw Hill International &q...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Pablo Neruda601 - Pablo Neruda
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Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973) who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. Uncommon ALS in Spanish, signed “Pablo,” one page, 5.25 x
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Marcel Proust602 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Rainer Maria Rilke603 - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist (1875–1926) who takes a place among the most highly regarded figures in early modern literature. ALS in French, on
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Romain Rolland604 - Romain Rolland
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ALS in French, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 6.5, December 10, 1904. Letter to a gentleman whom he thanks for his kind words. Rolland ap
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Bertrand Russell605 - Bertrand Russell
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ALS, 4.5 x 7, July 30, 1929. In full: "I have just returned from abroad & find your letter of July 3 with the Pall Mall Magazine. I am glad...
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Maurice Sendak606 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. NY: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.25 x 9.25. Signed on the title page in blue ballp...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Jean-Paul Sartre607 - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Two important fragments from Sartre's handwritten draft for his autobiographical work Les Motes, totaling 27 pages, 8.25 x 10.5, no date. Both r...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw608 - George Bernard Shaw
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Handwritten manuscript in pencil entitled “Draft Manifesto,” fourteen pages, 8 x 10.5, no date but circa 1914–1915, signed on the reverse of the last
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Samuel Francis Smith609 - Samuel Francis Smith
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Sought-after AQS on an off-white 6 x 4.25 sheet, signed and inscribed in ink, "For Mr. L. C. Mitchell, S. F. Smith, 1832–1888." Smith pens...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Madame de Stael610 - Madame de Stael
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein (1766–1817), known as Madame de Stael, was a Swiss author who played an integral part in directing the literary
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Gertrude Stein611 - Gertrude Stein
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ALS signed “Gertrude,” four pages on two sheets, 8 x 10.5, April 30. Letter to Maurice, in part: "I am awfully sad that I had to return the pro...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe612 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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ALS signed “H. B. Stowe,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, March 2, 1869. Letter of thanks for gifts, in part: "China is one of my w...
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Rabindranath Tagore613 - Rabindranath Tagore
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Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Signed book
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy614 - Leo Tolstoy
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Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828–1910) best known for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Extremely desirable matte-finish 3.
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Leo Tolstoy615 - Leo Tolstoy
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Extremely rare ALS in Russian, signed “L. Tolstoy,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, August 2, 1903. Letter to Pyotr Petrovich Nikolaev, in
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Dylan Thomas616 - Dylan Thomas
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Splendid ALS, three pages, 5.25 x 7, January 6, 1953. Written from the "Boat House" in Laugharne, a letter to British author and editor Er...
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Emile Verhaeren617 - Emile Verhaeren
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Belgian poet considered one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism (1855–1916). ALS in French, one page on a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard, postmarked
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Voltaire618 - Voltaire
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LS in French, signed “Volt,” one page, 4.5 x 7.25, July 2, 1755. Letter written from his home Les Delices in Geneva, Switzerland, in part (translated)
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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