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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Norman Mailer582 - Norman Mailer
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Signed book: The Naked and the Dead. Later printing. NY: Rinehart and Company, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 721 pages. Signed and inscri
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William Shakespeare583 - William Shakespeare
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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
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James Thurber584 - James Thurber
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American humorist and author (1894-1961) best known for such stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and for his distinctive, wittily captioned car
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Kurt Vonnegut585 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Two souvenir typescripts, each one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Vonnegut. First is an excerpt from God Bless You, Mr.
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Eudora Welty586 - Eudora Welty
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Signed book: The Bride of the Innisfallen. First edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 207 pages. Si
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Tennessee Williams587 - Tennessee Williams
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Personal check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Williams, payable to Pier House for $378.38, stamp-dated October 13, 1978. Encapsulated in
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Mily Balakirev589 - Mily Balakirev
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Russian pianist, conductor and composer (1837–1910) who is best remembered for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more fa
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Bela Bartok590 - Bela Bartok
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ALS in German, one page both sides, 5.75 x 8.75, personal stamped letterhead, July 14, 1936. Letter to "Frau Schiffer-Oelsner," in full (t...
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Johannes Brahms591 - Johannes Brahms
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Famed German composer (1833-1897) whose works in the classical spirit, written in the midst of the Romantic era, take a place among the most enduring
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Maria Callas592 - Maria Callas
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Vintage textured matte-finish 7.5 x 9.75 portrait of Callas as Tosca from 1964, prominently signed in black ink. Reverse bears a Houston Rogers copyri
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Claude Debussy593 - Claude Debussy
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Important French composer (1862-1918) whose colorful, evocative works, particularly those for keyboard and for orchestra, exemplified the 'impre...
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Antonin Dvorak594 - Antonin Dvorak
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Esteemed Czech composer (1841-1904) of orchestral and chamber music, best known for his Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World.' Rare oversized...
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Edward Elgar595 - Edward Elgar
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Leading English composer (1857–1934) and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x
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Edvard Grieg596 - Edvard Grieg
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Rare 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of Grieg in a handsome half-length pose with folded arms, signed in fountain pen, "Edvard Grieg, Kopenhagen, N...
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Engelbert Humperdinck597 - Engelbert Humperdinck
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German Romantic composer (1854-1921) best known for the opera Hansel und Gretel. Crystal clear vintage 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of Humperdinck in a
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Sergei Rachmaninoff598 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Exceptional vintage pearl-finish 7.5 x 9.25 portrait of Rachmaninoff by the Kubey–Rembrandt Studios of Philadelphia, signed and inscribed in fountain
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Erik Satie599 - Erik Satie
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Colorful French composer (1866-1925), who was one of the primary influences on the younger generation of avant-garde French composers in the early dec
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Clara Schumann600 - Clara Schumann
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Composer and one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era (1819–1896); she and her husband, composer Robert Schumann, were early champio
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Gaspare Spontini601 - Gaspare Spontini
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Italian opera composer and conductor (1774–1851), extremely celebrated in his time, though largely forgotten after his death. AMQS on a 6.5 x 8.75 off
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Richard Strauss602 - Richard Strauss
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German composer (1864-1949) whose colorful symphonic poems and operas earned him a place among the most important figures in late-19th and early 20th-
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Quantity : 1 | Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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