RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring WWII

Canadian pianist, composer, and commentator (1932-1982) revered as one of the foremost classical pianists of the 20th century, and renowned for his in

Vintage matte-finish 3.75 x 5.25 head-and-shoulders portrait of Puccini, signed and inscribed in fountain pen in Italian, "Giacomo Puccini, New...

ALS in Italian, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 7, Orbetello letterhead, July 4, 1920. Letter to "Renzo," in full (translated)...

Desirable AMQS on an off-white 6 x 3.5 sheet, signed below in ink, "Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago, 1906." Puccini pens three bars from h...

ALS, signed "Puccini" in the cramped right margin, one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, June 6, 1896. Letter to composer Carlo Clausetti of t...

Scarce and highly desirable cover and title page for sheet music to Porgy and Bess, measuring 17 x 11.75 open, signed and inscribed below his frontisp

Very desirable DS, three pages, 8.5 x 11, November 27, 1931. Contract between RKO Radio Pictures and George and Ira Gershwin, in which the latter part

Rare ALS signed “H. Ledbetter,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Hotel Pokegama letterhead, January 20, 1949. Written from New York City, Ledbetter pens a letter

Rare original French-language program for a "Soiree Musicale" with Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter on May 6, 1949, four pages, 6.25 ...

Vintage 6.5 x 9.25 handbill for a performance by Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter at New York's Times Hall on February 9, 1948, with text b...