RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring JFK

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Boasting well over 800 lots, RR Auction’s November Fine Autograph and Artifact sale begins with an extraordinary feature chronicling the life and death of President John F. Kennedy—from early candid snapshots of JFK to relics from Lee Harvey Oswald, this section offers an impressive variety of material. Other significant items in the sale include letters by classical music icons Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, an excellent 1963 Beatles autograph, a magnificent cabinet photo signed by Charles Dickens, a 1950 letter by reclusive author J. D. Salinger, and a wealth of superior presidential autographs including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, and James A. Garfield. 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 April 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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Langston Hughes562 - 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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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Rudyard Kipling563 - Rudyard Kipling
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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...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Else Lasker-Schuler564 - Else Lasker-Schuler
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Jewish poet and playwright (1869–1945) famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin, who later fled Nazi Germany for Zurich before settling in Jerusale
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Harper Lee565 - Harper Lee
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TLS, one page, 5.75 x 7.75, January 7, 1992. Written from Monroeville, Alabama, a letter to Raymond M. Beck, in full: "Thank you for the card a...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Eugene O'Neill566 - Eugene O'Neill
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Tao House, Danville letterhead, May 30, 1938. Letter to author Otto Koischwitz, in part: "Unfortunately, my knowledge ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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J. D. Salinger567 - J. D. Salinger
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ALS signed “Jerry,” one page, 8.5 x 11, May 13, 1950. Letter to Joyce Miller, in full: "I wondered Thursday whether you'd be free to boit a...
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Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
 
 
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Maurice Sendak568 - Maurice Sendak
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Original ballpoint sketch of Carol in a full-length seated pose on a green 6 x 7 sheet of personal stationery, signed below the sketch, "Thank ...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Alice B. Toklas569 - Alice B. Toklas
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Companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in What Is Remembered (1877–1967). ALS signed “Alice Toklas,” one page both sid
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Leo Tolstoy570 - 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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Voltaire571 - Voltaire
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ALS in English, signed “Volt,” one page, 5.25 x 7.25, no date but circa early 1740s. Letter to Prault, a printer and bookseller. In full: “I have rece
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Estimate : 5,500.00 - 6,500.00
 
 
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James Fenimore Cooper572 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Otsego County Bank check, 5.75 x 2.25, filled out and signed by Cooper, "J. Fenimore Cooper," payable to H. Phinney for $1000, July 5, 184...
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George Gissing573 - George Gissing
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Influential English writer (1857–1903) known for his realist novels about the lower middle class; George Orwell was one of Gissing's greatest ad...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Zane Grey574 - Zane Grey
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Signed book: Wanderer of the Wasteland. Later printing. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 419 pages. Signed on the first free e...
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Knut Hamson575 - Knut Hamson
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Norwegian writer (1859–1952), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Best remembered for his works Hunger, Mysteries, Pan, Victoria, a
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Bret Harte576 - Bret Harte
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American author (1836-1902) best known for his colorful tales of California pioneers, including the much-anthologized story 'The Outcasts of Pok...
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Joseph Heller577 - Joseph Heller
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed in blue ballpoint, "Joseph Heller." An excerpt from the great satirical novel Catch-22, in...
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John le Carre578 - John le Carre
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Signed book: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. First American edition. NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 256 pages. Signed on the ti
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Jack London579 - Jack London
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The Bank of Hawaii check, 6.75 x 2.75, filled out and signed by London, payable to Ethel M. Taylor for $7, stamp-dated March 5, 1916. Encapsulated in
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Anita Loos and Lew Ayres580 - Anita Loos and Lew Ayres
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Two first edition books: But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Boni & Liveright in 1928, signed ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Norman Mailer581 - Norman Mailer
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Two first edition books: Deaths for the Ladies, hardcover with dust jacket, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1962, signed on the half-title p...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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