RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

Rare and desirable 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Alexandre Dumas in a distinguished head-and-shoulders pose, signed boldly below the image in bl

ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page both sides, 4.25 x 6.75, June 5, 1855. Letter to "Mrs. Wagner," in part: "I am sorry that today ...

ALS in French, signed “G. Flaubert,” one page, 5.25 x 8, October 1, [no year]. Letter to Claudius Popelin, painter, writer, and sometime lover of Prin

TLS signed “yours ever, Ian F.,” one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, May 9, 1955. Letter to journalist and spy Antony Terry of the British Pre

Untranslated autograph manuscript draft in French, headed "Courrier de Paris," 34 pages contained in a 7 x 8.25 three-quarter leather bind...

Signed book: Steeple Bush. First edition, limited issue, numbered 565/751. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Hardcover with glassine jacket and slipca

Unsigned handwritten verse in German from Goethe's Book of Proverbs, neatly penned on a 6 x 2.25 slip. In full: "'Wie ungeschickt habt ...

ALS signed “Nath'l Hawthorne,” two pages, 4.75 x 7, February 4, 1864. Letter to Henry W. Donett, in part: "I have copied the passage from t...

ALS signed “Nath'l Hawthorne,” one page, 3.5 x 4.5, May 10, 1860. Letter to "My dear Motley," written from Bath, in full: "Will i...

ALS in Spanish and English, signed “Papa,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7.25, Paris Hotel Ritz letterhead, December 27, 1957. Letter to his friend Robe

Outstanding vintage matte-finish 7.75 x 9.75 photo of Hemingway and his Cuban friend Roberto Herrera shirtless on the terrace at Finca Vigia, signed a

ALS signed “Papa,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, November 25, 1954. Letter to "Bum," his son John (nicknamed 'Bumby'...

Signed book: For Whom the Bell Tolls. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 471 pages. Signed a...

TLS signed “Papa,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, February 9, 1954. Letter to novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel, in part: "H...

ALS in French, one page, 4.25 x 7, April 4, 1869. Letter written from Hauteville House, where Hugo lived during his time in exile, in full (translated

ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. In part (translated): "Here is a copy that I hasten to send you. I will go to press four to six ...

ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 6.75, December 22, 1904. Letter to a Dr. Goodale of Boston, in full: "It has all been very disap...

ANS signed "J. J.," one page, 7.5 x 7, no date. Note to an unidentified recipient reads, in part: "Pp 16-20 in this first chapter of ...

ALS in German, signed “Franz,” written in pencil on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard from the Cafe Kaiserhaus in Halberstadt, Germany, postmarked J

Unsigned first edition book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. First edition. NY: The Viking Press, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket...