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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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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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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