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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Hermann Hesse568 - Hermann Hesse
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Handsome vintage matte-finish 4 x 6 postcard portrait of Hesse by Fritz Eschen, signed on the reverse in fountain pen, "H. Hesse." In very...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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L. Ron Hubbard569 - L. Ron Hubbard
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Signed book: What is Scientology?. First edition. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.75 x 11.25, 34
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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E. L. James570 - E. L. James
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Three items: a color glossy 10 x 8 photo of E. L. James posing with limited edition leather ankle cuffs, signed in black felt tip; a color glossy 10 x
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Robinson Jeffers571 - Robinson Jeffers
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Signed book: Such Counsels as You Gave to Me & Other Poems. First edition, limited issue, numbered 176/300. NY: Random House, 1937. Hardcover wi...
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Ken Kesey572 - Ken Kesey
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Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 30th anniversary edition. NY: Penguin, 1992. Softcover, 5 x 7.75, 311 pages. Signed inside the fro...
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Stephen King573 - Stephen King
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Signed book: Pet Sematary. NY: Doubleday, 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 373 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink,
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Arthur Koestler574 - Arthur Koestler
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TLS signed “A. Koestler,” one page, 6.25 x 8, 8 Montpelier Square, London letterhead, May 8, 1979. Letter to journalist Adelbert Reif, in full: &quo...
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D. H. Lawrence575 - D. H. Lawrence
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Hand-addressed mailing envelope, 4.5 x 3.75, addressed by D. H. Lawrence to New York publisher B. W. Huebsch: "B. W. Huebsch, Esq., 32 West 58t...
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Benjamin Lincoln Lear576 - Benjamin Lincoln Lear
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Collection of 11 books from the library of Benjamin Lincoln Lear, the son of George Washington's personal secretary Tobias Lear, all bearing sim...
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Sinclair Lewis577 - Sinclair Lewis
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ALS, one page, 5.75 x 7.25, personal 'Thorvale Farm' letterhead, August 20, 1946. Letter to publisher and editor William Targ, in full: &quo...
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Lexicographers and Journalists578 - Lexicographers and Journalists
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Group lot of five items signed by a notable journalist or lexicographer, including: an ALS in French from Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, signe...
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Limited Editions Club579 - Limited Editions Club
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Three slipcased hardcover books published by the Limited Editions Club, each signed on the colophon by the illustrator: The Baster of Ballantrae by Ro
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Jack London580 - Jack London
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Popular American novelist (1876-1916), best known for such adventure classics as The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and White Fang, who drew his writ
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Jack London581 - Jack London
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Signed book: Burning Daylight. First edition. NY: Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.75, 361 pages. Signed on an off-white slip clipped from a check,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow582 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Two items: an ALS signed "Henry W. Longfellow," three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, August 16, 1860, to James Topham Brady, in ...
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W. Somerset Maugham583 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Signed book: Ah King. First edition, limited issue, numbered 109/175. London: William Heinemann, 1933. Hardcover with acetate jacket, 6 x 9, 339 pages
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James A. Michener584 - James A. Michener
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Signed book: The Covenant. Later printing. NY: Random House, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 873 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-
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Henry Miller585 - Henry Miller
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ALS, one page, 7.5 x 5.5, May 12, 1948. Letter to art dealers, in which Miller expresses interest in buying one of his own paintings, in full: "...
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Toni Morrison586 - Toni Morrison
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Signed book: Paradise. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 318 pages. Signed on the title page in black
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John O'Hara587 - John O'Hara
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TLS signed “John,” one page, 5.75 x 8.75, October 30, 1957. Letter to "Swanie," his agent H. N. Swanson, in full: "I received your te...
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