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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Gabriel García Márquez506 - Gabriel García Márquez
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Signed book: El General en su Laberinto [The General in his Labyrinth]. First edition, limited issue, numbered 853/1050. NY: Ediciones del Equilibrist
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence507 - D. H. Lawrence
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ALS, on both sides of a 3.5 x 5.5 postal card, July 23, 1920. Letter to Hubert Loss, the assistant editor of Land and Water. In part: "Have you...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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D. H. Lawrence508 - D. H. Lawrence
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Signed book: Pansies. First edition, limited issue, numbered 250/250. London: Martin Secker, 1929. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9, 154 pages. Signe
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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T. E. Lawrence509 - T. E. Lawrence
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ALS in pencil, signed “T. E. S.,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 6.75 x 8.5, January 16, 1933. Letter to Wing Commander T. B. Marson, written fr
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Sinclair Lewis510 - Sinclair Lewis
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Sought-after signed book: Babbitt. First edition, first printing (with "Supposing Purdy" and "my fellow human" on page 49). NY: ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Arthur Miller511 - Arthur Miller
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Signed book: Death of a Salesman. First edition. NY: Viking Press, 1949. Hardcover with dust jacket (containing all first issue points, including a $2
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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A. A. Milne512 - A. A. Milne
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ALS, one page both sides, 4.5 x 6, 11 Mallord Street, Chelsea letterhead, March 5, [1921]. Letter to longtime friend Vincent Seligman, in full: &quo...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Margaret Mitchell513 - Margaret Mitchell
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Rare signed book: Tuulen Viemaa [Gone With the Wind], Volume I. First Finnish edition. Helsinki, Finland: Otava, 1937. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Samuel Pepys514 - Samuel Pepys
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Manuscript DS, signed "S. Pepys," one page, 7 x 7, July 31, 1667. Document reads, in full: "I doe hereby assigne & transferr all ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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James Randall515 - James Randall
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Rare AMS, five pages, 7.75 x 10.5, December 14, 1894. A full autograph copy of Randall's Civil War Anthem, "My Maryland!" In part: &qu...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Erich Maria Remarque516 - Erich Maria Remarque
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Signed book: Im Westen Nichts Neues [All Quiet on the Western Front]. First edition thus. Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 1929. Leatherbound hardcover, 5.5
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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J. K. Rowling517 - J. K. Rowling
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Complete set of seven deluxe hardcover books from the Harry Potter series, all first edition, first printing, published in London by Bloomsbury. Inclu
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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George Bernard Shaw518 - George Bernard Shaw
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ALS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 3.5 x 5.5, October 10, 1905. Letter to E. J. Flynn, in part: "I am afraid it is quite impossible for me...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Stendhal520 - Stendhal
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ALS in French, signed “H. Beyle,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.25, June 20, 1826. Untranslated letter to an English businessman, &q...
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Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
 
 
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Dylan Thomas521 - Dylan Thomas
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Signed book: In Country Sleep. First edition. NY: New Directions, 1952. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 34 pages. Boldly signed on the first fre
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Gertrude Stein522 - Gertrude Stein
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Scarce vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 postcard photo of Stein in profile by her close friend Carl Van Vechten, signed and inscribed in fountain pen,...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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H. G. Wells523 - H. G. Wells
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ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Spade House, Sandgate letterhead, March 17, 1902. Letter to Miss Mary Rawlings.Toning, in part: &...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Virginia Woolf524 - Virginia Woolf
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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, June 20, [no year]. Letter to Miss McAfee, the editor of the Yale Review. In full: “I am so sorry that we
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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William Wordsworth525 - William Wordsworth
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ALS signed “Wm. Wordsworth,” one page, 4.5 x 8, no date. Letter to a gentleman, in part: "At twelve o'clock on Tuesday it will suit me to m...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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William Butler Yeats526 - William Butler Yeats
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TLS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 8 x 10, May 26, 1903. Letter to the wife of writer G. K. Chesterton, in full: "I am very sorry not to have ...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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