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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Chester A. Arthur21 - Chester A. Arthur
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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 19.5, July 3, 1882. President Arthur appoints John D. Wilkins as a "Colonel of the Fif...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Chester A. Arthur22 - Chester A. Arthur
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Handsome engraving of the front of the White House, 4.25 x 3, signed below the vignette in ink, "Chester A. Arthur." Nicely matted with an...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft23 - Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft
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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “Theodore Roosevelt” as president and “Wm. H. Taft” as secretary of war, one page, 15.75 x 19.75, Decemb
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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William H. Taft24 - William H. Taft
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ALS as president signed “Wm. H. Taft,” two pages, 5.5 x 7, The President’s Cottage letterhead, September 10, 1909. Letter to a gentleman, in full: “I
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson25 - Woodrow Wilson
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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 19.5, May 5, 1914. President Wilson appoints Ernest L. Patch as an "Assistant Naval Co...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Woodrow Wilson26 - Woodrow Wilson
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World War I-dated partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 19.5, February 12, 1916. President Wilson appoints Wildurr Willing as a &...
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Calvin Coolidge27 - Calvin Coolidge
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Signed book: Concentrated New England: A Sketch of Calvin Coolidge. Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8, 58 pages.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Franklin D. Roosevelt28 - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Scarce ALS as president signed “F. D. R.,” one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, [September 9, 1938]. Letter to "Uncle Fred," his mothe...
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Harry S. Truman29 - Harry S. Truman
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 19.25 x 15.25, November 12, 1946. President Truman appoints Willard L. Thorp "an Assistant Secretary ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Dwight D. Eisenhower30 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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TLS signed “D. E.,” one page, 7 x 10.25, White House letterhead, June 9, 1960. Letter to James S. Copley, chairman of Copley Newspapers, in full: &q...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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