RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

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Boasting almost 1,000 lots, RR Auction's October Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features a robust literature section that includes autographs from authors across the ages—from Goethe to Kafka to Hemingway, a wide assortment of great writers and literary movements are represented. Other highlights in the sale include an important letter by Stephen Hawking, an extremely rare Mao Zedong autograph, a fully signed Led Zeppelin album, a wise autograph quote by Albert Einstein, and a letter by Thomas Jefferson on a political economics textbook. 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 September 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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Woodrow Wilson101 - Woodrow Wilson
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Six pins and buttons from Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaigns, circa 1912–1916, measuring between 3/4? and 1 1/4?, including four portraits ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson102 - Woodrow Wilson
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Superb 1 1/4? celluloid pinback button featuring a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, with a flag ribbon below bearing a badge for "Flag Day...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson103 - Woodrow Wilson
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Five different pinback buttons from Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaigns, circa 1912–1916, measuring between 5/8? and 7/8?, with slogans incl...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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John Hancock104 - John Hancock
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Two separately bound, unsigned, printed portions of the Resolves of the General Court of Massachusetts, pages 3-35, 8 x 12.5, printed in Boston by Tho
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Levi Allen105 - Levi Allen
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ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, June 5, 1788. Letter to his wife, Nancy Allen, written from Colchester Bay, Vermont, on Lake Champlain, where he a
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton106 - Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
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ALS signed “Eliz'th Hamilton,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 24, 1841. Letter of recommendation to Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger, i...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Bushrod Washington107 - Bushrod Washington
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Signed book: A Treatise of Equity, Volume II. Dublin: Byrne, Moore, Jones, and Watts, 1795. Hardcover, 5.25 x 8.25, 495 pages. Boldly signed on the ti
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Henry Wells and William Fargo108 - Henry Wells and William Fargo
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Partly-printed DS, signed "Henry Wells" and "Wm. G. Fargo," one page, 14.5 x 6.5, circa 1850s. Unissued certificate for shares o...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles Darwin109 - Charles Darwin
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ALS signed “Ch. R. Darwin, J. P.,” one page, 5 x 7.75, May 8, 1863. Letter to George Snow, in full: "After twenty years experience of your char...
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Albert Einstein110 - Albert Einstein
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DS, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8 x 10.5, April 19, 1950. Official letter from Didier Publishers of New York, in full: "We are preparing fo...
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 20,000.00
 
 
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