RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring JFK

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RR Auction’s November Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings over 800 incredible lots to auction, featuring a compelling selection of John F. Kennedy items in honor of the 55th anniversary of his death. Highlights include JFK’s iconic presidential bomber jacket, his rocking chair from the Carlyle, and a wealth of important handwritten notes, signed photographs, and letter, including one from Jackie reflecting on her tragic flight home from Dallas on Air Force One. An amazing map annotated by Fidel Castro to show the Bay of Pigs invasion represents one of the greatest foreign policy challenges of Kennedy’s presidency. In addition to these are a diverse selection of outstanding items from throughout history: a letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an autograph document by George Washington using slaves as collateral, a Beatles signed photograph, a compelling archive of Greta Garbo’s letters, and a comprehensive assortment of Napoleonic Marshals round out these fine offerings.
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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Charles Dickens547 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 6.5, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, December 11, 1864. Letter to English lawyer and antiquary Frederic Ouvry, in full: "...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Ian Fleming548 - Ian Fleming
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TLS signed “Yours ever, Ian,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, July 22, 1964. Letter to ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy, in part:
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne549 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Partly-printed DS, signed “N. Hawthorne,” one page, 7 x 8, December 20, 1853. As consul of the United States at Liverpool, Hawthorne certifies that ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway550 - Ernest Hemingway
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Ink signature, "Ernest Hemingway,” on an off-white 4 x .75 slip affixed to a 5 x 3 card. The slip derives from a Waterman's autograph album...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway551 - Ernest Hemingway
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Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. First edition, limited issue, numbered 498/510. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25, 355 p...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Washington Irving552 - Washington Irving
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A page of Washington Irving's handwritten draft for his popular 1828 work A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 4.5 x 7.5, ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Jack London553 - Jack London
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Two items, comprising two hand-corrected pages of London's manuscript for The Cruise of the Snark, along with a signed check from the author. Th...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell554 - Margaret Mitchell
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TLS signed “Peggy Mitchell Marsh,” one page, 7 x 10.5, personal letterhead, October 14, 1937. Letter to Doctor Boland, in part: "I thank you an...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Marcel Proust555 - Marcel Proust
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French writer (1871–1922) known for the monumental sixteen-volume In Search of Lost Time, regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world litera
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Ayn Rand556 - Ayn Rand
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DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, July 13, 1938. Official letter addressed to Sidney R. Fleischer concerning the disposition of money to R.K.O Pictures from th
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling557 - J. K. Rowling
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Desirable TLS signed “With love from, J. K. Rowling (Jo to you) X",” one page, 8.25 x 11.75, personal embossed 'owl' letterhead, Januar...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Algernon Swinburne558 - Algernon Swinburne
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Important Victorian British poet (1837–1909) whose ‘decadent’ subject matter (including sadomasochism and lesbianism) made him one of the most controv
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Oscar Wilde559 - Oscar Wilde
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, personal letterhead, no date but circa 1887. Letter to "Mrs. Ewing," the much-admired children's writer Julia...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Margaret Atwood560 - Margaret Atwood
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Signed book: The Handmaid's Tale. First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 311 pages. Signed on t...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ray Bradbury561 - Ray Bradbury
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ANS on the inside of a greeting card featuring artwork inspired by Bradbury's 1972 novel The Halloween Tree, one page, 5.5 x 8.25, in full: &quo...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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William Cullen Bryant562 - William Cullen Bryant
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AQS on an off-white 5.25 x 8.25 sheet, neatly signed at the conclusion, "William Cullen Bryant, Copied February 10th, 1874." Bryant pens t...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs563 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Two unsigned first edition books: Carson on Venus, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in 1939; and Escape on Venus, h
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Taylor Caldwell564 - Taylor Caldwell
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British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction (1900–1985), also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, whose be
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Padraic Colum565 - Padraic Colum
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Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (1881–1972) considered one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. ALS pen
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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James Fenimore Cooper566 - James Fenimore Cooper
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Handwritten manuscript fragment by James Fenimore Cooper, one page, 7.75 x 1.75, headed "On Language." In full: "Language, the fit at...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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