RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring John F. Kennedy

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With a featured section honoring the birthday of President John F. Kennedy, RR Auction's May Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts nearly 750 diverse lots. Top JFK items include an original portrait study by Aaron Shikler, Jacqueline Kennedy's personally-worn maternity dress, windows from the Texas School Book Depository, and a rosary used by a priest at Parkland Hospital, as well as assorted autographs and other personal effects. Additional highlights in the sale are rare signatures of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for "The Times They Are-a-Changin'," a near-mint trio of the first Playboy issues, and a cigar box signed by Fidel Castro. 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 May 2019.
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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Stan Lee452 - Stan Lee
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Color satin-finish 16 x 20 photo of the cover to issue No. 15 of the Amazing Fantasy comic book, which marked the debut appearance of Spider-Man, sign
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Stan Lee453 - Stan Lee
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Color satin-finish 16 x 20 photo of the cover to issue No. 15 of the Amazing Fantasy comic book, which marked the debut appearance of Spider-Man, sign
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Seth MacFarlane455 - Seth MacFarlane
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Fantastic original felt tip sketch of an entirely displeased Stewie Griffin from the animated television series Family Guy, accomplished on a white 12
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Frederick Burr Opper456 - Frederick Burr Opper
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Pioneer of American newspaper comic strips (1857–1937) best known for his comic strip Happy Hooligan. Vintage menu for New York's exclusive The ...
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Trey Parker457 - Trey Parker
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Original felt tip sketch of Kenny McCormick from the animated television series South Park, accomplished in blue felt tip on a white 9 x 12 sheet by T
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Charles Schulz458 - Charles Schulz
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Uncommon Peanuts birthday card booklet published by Hallmark, 28 pages, 5 x 6.25, signed inside the back cover in black felt tip, "Charles M. S...
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Charles Schulz459 - Charles Schulz
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Signed book: Snoopy and 'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.' First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5...
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Winnie the Pooh460 - Winnie the Pooh
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(Walt Disney Home Video, 1997) Original production cel set-up featuring Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin from the direct-to-video animated advent
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Philip K. Dick461 - Philip K. Dick
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TLS signed “Love, Phil" with added heart and arrow,” five pages, 8.5 x 11, January 10, 1981. In-depth letter to science fiction author Patricia...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens462 - Charles Dickens
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Large ink signature, "Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens, Tremont House, Boston, Second February, 1842,” on an off-white 4.75 x 7.25 sheet. In v...
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Charles Dickens463 - Charles Dickens
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Desirable hand-addressed mailing envelope, 4.75 x 2.75, addressed by Dickens to "Miss Procter, 32 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, London, W.,&...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar464 - Paul Laurence Dunbar
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African-American poet (1872-1906), known for his colorful use of language and dialect, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 33. AQS on an off-white
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T. S. Eliot465 - T. S. Eliot
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Vintage matte-finish 2 x 2.75 passport photo of the great writer, signed at the top in fountain pen, "T. S. Eliot." In fine condition, wit...
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Ian Fleming466 - Ian Fleming
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TLS signed “Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming,” one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, September 17, 1951. Letter to journalist and spy Antony Terry o
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Gustave Flaubert467 - Gustave Flaubert
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ALS in French, signed “Gu. Flaubert,” two pages, 5 x 8, no date. Letter to a friend, in full (translated): "Le Sexe Faible [The Weak Sex] must ...
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Robert Frost468 - Robert Frost
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Vintage glossy 6.5 x 8.25 photo of Frost in a suit and tie, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "To the Ken Brownes, away out there, from the...
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Ernest Hemingway469 - Ernest Hemingway
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Unsigned first edition book: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover with dust ...
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Victor Hugo470 - Victor Hugo
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ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 7, July 17, 1867. Written while in banishment, living on the island of Guernsey, Hugo writes to Aubin Pelletier, author
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James Joyce471 - James Joyce
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Signed book: Haveth Childers Everywhere. First edition, limited issue, numbered 67/100. Paris, Henry Babou & Jack Kahane; New York, the Fountain...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
 
 
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Jack Kerouac472 - Jack Kerouac
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Personal check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Kerouac, "Jack Kerouac," payable to Macy's for $26.31, June 4, 1958. In fine con...
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A. A. Milne473 - A. A. Milne
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Archive containing one letter signed by A. A. Milne, plus 21 letters written and signed by his wife Daphne, all sent to their friends Vincent and Barb
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Beatrix Potter474 - Beatrix Potter
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Sought-after ink signature and inscription, "Wm. and Beatrix Heelis, Christopher and Phyllis Le Fleming and the young man, from Peter Rabbit, C...
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Mary Shelley475 - Mary Shelley
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British author (1797–1851) whose first and best-known novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, takes a place among the most enduring classics of
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Hunter S. Thompson: Issue of 'The Nation'476 - Hunter S. Thompson: Issue of 'The Nation'
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Rare original issue of The Nation from May 17, 1965, Vol. 200, No. 20, 30 pages, 8.5 x 10.75, with front cover showing motorcycle artwork next to bold
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Ivan Turgenev477 - Ivan Turgenev
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Highly influential Russian author (1818–1883) whose 1862 novel Fathers and Sons remains one of the pillars of nineteenth-century literature. ALS in Ge
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Walt Whitman478 - Walt Whitman
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Highly sought-after 4 x 5.25 cabinet-style photo of Whitman wearing a hat with his beard gently resting in an open hand, boldly signed in ink, "...
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Maya Angelou479 - Maya Angelou
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Two items: a glossy 10 x 8 close-up photo of the poet, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip, "Joyce & Ken Browne, Joy! Maya Angelou, July ...
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Maya Angelou480 - Maya Angelou
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Signed book: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Later printing. NY: Random House, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 281 pages. Signed and in
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Isaac Asimov481 - Isaac Asimov
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Signed book: In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920–1954. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. Hardcover with dust j
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Samuel Beckett482 - Samuel Beckett
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TLS, one page, 8.25 x 10.5, April 27, 1965. Letter to noted set designer William Ritman, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, in full: &qu...
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Cao Yu483 - Cao Yu
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Chinese playwright (1910–1996) who is often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. His best-known works are Thunderstorm, Sunri...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Karel Capek484 - Karel Capek
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One of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century (1890–1938) who introduced and made popular the word 'robot,' which first appe...
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Truman Capote485 - Truman Capote
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Bold vintage fountain pen signature, "Truman Capote,” on an off-white 5 x 3 card. In very fine condition. Originally obtained in person by a Ne...
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Francois Rene de Chateaubriand486 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
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Writer, politician, diplomat, and historian (1768–1848) considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. LS in French, signed “Chateaubrian
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Jean Cocteau487 - Jean Cocteau
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Versatile French writer and artist (1889-1963) whose spectrum of work included novels, poems, plays, illustrations, films, and set designs. ALS in Fre
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Roald Dahl488 - Roald Dahl
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Two unsigned classics by Dahl: a first edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, hardcover with dust jacket (with $3.95 price on flap), publish
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Theodore Dreiser489 - Theodore Dreiser
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Two items: a TLS signed “T.D.,” one page, 8.5 x 11, The American Spectator letterhead, October 4, 1932, addressed to author and romantic interest Marg
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Ilya Ehrenburg490 - Ilya Ehrenburg
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Jewish Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and historian (1891–1967). TLS in French, signed “I. Ehrenburg,” one page, 8.25 x 10.75, pe
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Charles G. Finney491 - Charles G. Finney
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Unsigned first edition book: The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney, with illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. First edition. NY: Viking Press, 19
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Elizabeth Gaskell492 - Elizabeth Gaskell
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Victorian-era author (1810–1865) whose works detailed the lives of people in all classes of society, best known for her novel North and South. ALS sig
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William Goldman493 - William Goldman
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Signed book: Marathon Man. First edition. NY: Delacorte Press, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 309 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-
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Gunter Grass494 - Gunter Grass
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Three items signed in ink or ballpoint by Nobel Prize-winning writer and illustrator Gunter Grass: a 4 x 5.75 postcard of a Grass sketch entitled &#...
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Alex Haley495 - Alex Haley
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Signed book: Roots. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 587 pages. Signed and inscribed in black f
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Han Suyin496 - Han Suyin
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Pen name of Elizabeth Comber (1916–2012) whose novels and autobiographical memoirs covered the span of modern China, gaining her a reputation as an ar
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John Hersey497 - John Hersey
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Two unsigned first edition books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey: Men on Bataan, hardcover with dust jacket, published in 1942 by Alfred
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Hermann Hesse498 - Hermann Hesse
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ALS in German, signed “H. Hesse,” one page, penned on the reverse of a 4 x 5.75 postal card with bucolic house engraving, September 27, 1941. An untra
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Johann Kaspar Lavater499 - Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist, and theologian (1741–1801). Unsigned handwritten verse by Johann Kaspar Lavater, one page, 2.25 x 3.5,
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Lin Yutang500 - Lin Yutang
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Influential writer in both China and the English-speaking world (1895-1976) whose compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji501 - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
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Indian novelist (1890–1936) considered to be the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States, who won the Newbery Medal in 1928; he co
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Amos Oz502 - Amos Oz
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Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual (1939–2018) who was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian con
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