RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Pop Culture

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RR Auction's March Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is highlighted by a wealth of significant pop culture material, drawing from movies, music, art, and literature. The sale features an important photographic archive of Marilyn Monroe, shot during the production of the 1952 film Niagara; an emotional letter by Monroe to acting mentor Lee Strasberg; an incredibly rare book signed by Leo Tolstoy; a Revolutionary War–dated letter by George Washington; multiple Beatles autographs; and a virtually one-of-a-kind signature of the important Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud. 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 2020.
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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Bret Easton Ellis527 - Bret Easton Ellis
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Signed book: American Psycho. First edition, first printing. NY: Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, 1991. A paperback original, 5 x 8, 399 pages. Si
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Bret Easton Ellis528 - Bret Easton Ellis
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Signed book: Less Than Zero. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 208 pages. Sign...
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Robert Frost529 - Robert Frost
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Color 5 x 6 portrait of Frost removed from a Time Magazine cover, signed and inscribed along the top in blue ink, "For the Ken Brownes, that th...
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Mary Hemingway530 - Mary Hemingway
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American journalist and author (1908–1986) who was the fourth wife and widow of Ernest Hemingway. Four items: a Christmas card with giraffes under Mt.
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Hermann Hesse531 - Hermann Hesse
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Ink signature, "H. Hesse,” penned vertically with a short German sentiment on the reverse of a 5.75 x 4.25 postcard of Hesse's home in Gaie...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr532 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Two ALSs, both signed "O. W. Holmes," one page, 4.5 x 7, dated April 29, 1864 and March 29, 1893. The earlier letter: "I will send yo...
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Ken Kesey533 - Ken Kesey
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Rare signed book: Demon Box. Uncorrected galley proof of the first edition. NY: Viking, 1986. In plain green wrappers, 5.5 x 8.25, 375 pages. Signed a
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Madeleine L'Engle534 - Madeleine L'Engle
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Signed book: A Wrinkle in Time. Book club edition. Garden City, NY: Junior Deluxe Editions, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 216 pages. S
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Elmore Leonard535 - Elmore Leonard
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Signed limited edition typescript of Elmore Leonard's 1987 novel Bandits, numbered 5/60, 408 pages, 8.5 x 11, housed in its original foil-wrappe...
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Sinclair Lewis536 - Sinclair Lewis
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ALS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, September 26, [no year]. Letter to Dr. Smyth, in part: "God bless you a million times, not only for the May Sinclair ...
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Sinclair Lewis537 - Sinclair Lewis
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Fountain pen signature, "Sinclair Lewis, Katonah, N.Y., August 6, 1925,” on an off-white 4 x 1.75 card. In fine condition, with old tape stains...
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Jack London538 - Jack London
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Bank check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by London, "Jack London," payable to P. N. Hanrahan & Co. for $74, January 6, 1910. In ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow539 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ink signature, "Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow,” on an off-white 4.25 x 2.5 slip. In fine condition, with a horizontal fold beneath the signa...
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Thomas Mann540 - Thomas Mann
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Vintage fountain pen signature, "Thomas Mann,” on an off-white 4 x 1.5 sheet. Double-matted with a photo of the Nobel Prize-winning author to a...
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Larry McMurtry541 - Larry McMurtry
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Signed book: Terms of Endearment. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.75, 410 pages....
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Arthur Miller542 - Arthur Miller
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Four items signed by Arthur Miller, including: two glossy 10 x 8 stills from the set of a remake of Death of a Salesman, each signed in blue ink by Mi
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Alberto Moravia543 - Alberto Moravia
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Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990) whose novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He is perhaps be
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Dorothy Sayers544 - Dorothy Sayers
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British author (1893–1957) best known for her series of mysteries featuring fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey. ALS signed “Dorothy L. Sayers,” one
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Edgar Wallace545 - Edgar Wallace
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Clarence Gate letterhead, March 12, 1925. Letter to Newman Flower, in part: "I have got an arrangement which takes me ov...
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Kate Douglas Wiggin546 - Kate Douglas Wiggin
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American author (1856-1923) best known for the juvenile classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Uncommon AMQS on an off-white 6.5 x 4.5 sheet signed in fo
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