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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Harry Blackstone808 - Harry Blackstone
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E. Hill & Sons State Bank check, 6 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Harry Blackstone, payable to Hotel Haddam for $4.10, November 19, 1933. In f...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edwin Booth809 - Edwin Booth
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Interesting ANS in pencil, one page, 3.25 x 2.25, no date. Note apparently passed during a performance of Richelieu, in which Booth played the title r
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James Caan810 - James Caan
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Glossy 8 x 10 photo of Caan as a young actor, signed in blue ink, "Sincerely James Caan." In fine condition.
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Frank Capra811 - Frank Capra
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Terrific World War II-dated TLS signed “Frank,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Frank Capra Productions, Inc. letterhead, May 6, 1941. Letter to "Coop,&quo...
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Johnny Carson812 - Johnny Carson
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DS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, April 29, 1985. Official letter from NBC Entertainment to Johnny Carson, referencing an agreement from April 18, 1972, which
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Lon Chaney, Jr813 - Lon Chaney, Jr
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Choice fountain pen signature, "Lon Chaney,” on an off-white 4.5 x 2.75 card bearing a small affixed portrait. Nicely matted and framed with a ...
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Charlie Chaplin814 - Charlie Chaplin
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Matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 head-and-shoulders photo of an older Charlie Chaplin, signed in the lower border in black felt tip. In fine condition. Accompa
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Charlie Chaplin815 - Charlie Chaplin
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TLS, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, April 17, 1969. Brief letter to Edward Laker, in full: "Thank you very much for your kind thou...
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Gary Cooper816 - Gary Cooper
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ALS signed “G. Cooper,” one page, 8.5 x 11, El Mirador Hotel letterhead, no date. Letter to Miss Smith, in full: "Will you get in touch with th...
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Gary Cooper817 - Gary Cooper
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DS, 27 pages, 8.5 x 13, October 12, 1949. Contract between Warner Bros. Pictures and Gary Cooper, in which the ladder agrees to "render his exc...
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Francis Ford Coppola818 - Francis Ford Coppola
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DS, two pages, 8.5 x 13, March 1, 1976. Acknowledgment for an agreement between the Coppola Cinema Seven and The Coppola Company, in which the latter
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Crash819 - Crash
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Original brad-bound Lionsgate Films script for the Oscar-winning 2004 film Crash, 113 pages, 8.75 x 11, signed on the title page by thirteen cast and
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Creature from the Black Lagoon820 - Creature from the Black Lagoon
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Two items: a felt tip sketch by Ricou Browning of the Creature from the Black Lagoon on a white 8.5 x 11 cardstock sheet, signed below by Browning, wh
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Walter Cronkite821 - Walter Cronkite
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Glossy 7 x 9 head-and-shoulders photo of the great newscaster, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "For Ruth DeForge, With best wishes, Wal...
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Michael Curtiz822 - Michael Curtiz
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Vintage pencil signature, "Michael Curtiz, Hollywood,” on an off-white 5.75 x 3.5 card, affixed below a portrait to an overall size of 8.25 x 1...
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Sammy Davis, Jr823 - Sammy Davis, Jr
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DS, one page, 11 x 8.5, July 26, [1974]. Certificate for 51 shares of stock in Trace–Mark Productions, Inc., issued to Sammy Davis Jr., who signs at t
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Doris Day824 - Doris Day
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Three contracts between Doris Day and Columbia Records, each signed at the conclusion, "Doris Day," six total pages, dated between 1950 an...
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Daniel Day-Lewis825 - Daniel Day-Lewis
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Glossy 8 x 10 publicity photo of Daniel Day-Lewis as he's pictured on the poster for the 1992 historical drama The Last of the Mohicans, signed ...
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Robert De Niro826 - Robert De Niro
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Color satin-finish 11 x 14 photo of Robert De Niro as middleweight champion boxer Jake LaMotta in the 1980 Martin Scorsese biopic Raging Bull, signed
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Johnny Depp827 - Johnny Depp
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Color glossy 14 x 11 close-up photo of Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke from the 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las ...
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