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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Kurt Vonnegut608 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Signed book: The Writer's Desk by Jill Krementz (wife of Kurt Vonnegut). First edition. NY: Random House, 1996. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.25...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Kurt Vonnegut609 - Kurt Vonnegut
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Signed book: Timequake. First edition. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 219 pages. Signed and inscribed o...
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Eudora Welty610 - Eudora Welty
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Signed book: Acrobats in a Park. First edition, limited issue, numbered 295/300. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Hardcover with acetate jacket,
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Thornton Wilder611 - Thornton Wilder
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ALS signed on the reverse of the accompanying mailing envelope, “T. N. Wilder,” one page both sides, May 24, 1969. Fascinating letter to noted novelis
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Tennessee Williams612 - Tennessee Williams
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Crisp personal check, 8.5 x 3.5, filled out in type and signed by Tennessee Williams, payable to writer and partner Robert Carroll for $242.74, June 1
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Gahan Wilson613 - Gahan Wilson
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Signed book: I Paint What I See. Later printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. Softcover, 8 x 11, 126 pages. Signed on the first free end page in ...
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Gahan Wilson614 - Gahan Wilson
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Signed book: Gahan Wilson's America. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.75 x 11.25, 143 pages. Signed ...
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko615 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Signed book: The Collected Poems: 1952–1990. First edition. NY: Henry Holt, 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 659 pages. Signed on the fir
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko616 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Signed book: Fatal Half Measures: The Culture of Democracy in the Soviet Union. First edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991. Hardcover with
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Bela Bartok617 - Bela Bartok
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ALS in Hungarian, signed "Bartok Bela," one page, 5.5 x 8.5, March 17, 1937. Letter to the president of the Janos Vajda Association, in pa...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Hector Berlioz618 - Hector Berlioz
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ALS in French, signed “H. Berlioz,” one page, 5.25 x 8, August 25, 1852. Letter to Richard Otto Spazier, nephew and biographer of the German writer Je
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso619 - Enrico Caruso
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Exceptional vintage matte-finish 6.75 x 12.5 portrait of the celebrated Italian tenor, signed and inscribed in bold fountain pen, "To Mr. John ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Gaetano Donizetti620 - Gaetano Donizetti
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Italian composer (1797-1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in French, signed "Donizetti," one page, 4.75 x...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Edward Elgar621 - Edward Elgar
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Boldly penned AMQS on an off-white 10 x 5.5 musically-lined sheet, beautifully signed at the conclusion, "Edward Elgar, March 17th 1927." ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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George Gershwin622 - George Gershwin
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Brilliant AMQS on a beige-colored 6 x 4.5 album page, signed boldly in fountain pen, "Good wishes, George Gershwin, Feb. 20, 1932," who be...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Mikhail Glinka623 - Mikhail Glinka
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ALS in Italian, signed “Michele Glinka,” one page, 4.75 x 7, December 6, [1832]. In full (translated): "When I asked you to give me the pleasur...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Edvard Grieg624 - Edvard Grieg
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Untranslated ALS in Norwegian, one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, July 5, 1887. Grieg writes from Bergen to music publisher Carl Warmuth, Jr. In fine t
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Franz Liszt625 - Franz Liszt
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ALS in French, signed “F. Liszt,” one page, 4.75 x 7.25, no date. Letter to "Monsieur l'Abbé Luigi Minichini," in full (translate...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini626 - Giacomo Puccini
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Sought-after AMQS on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard of Puccini's villa in Chiatri, boldly signed and dated below in ink, "Giacomo Puccini, 29.4.06,&q...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini627 - Giacomo Puccini
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Brief ALS in Italian, one page, 8.5 x 5.25, Caffe Biffi Milano letterhead, January 11, 1902. Puccini writes to Pillora, inquiring as to why he did not
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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