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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Samuel L. Clemens476 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Unsigned first edition book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. First American edition, first printing (containing the traditional points of issue includ
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens477 - Samuel L. Clemens
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ALS signed “Mark,” two pages, 5.5 x 9, August 7, 1886. Letter to longtime friend and fellow author William Dean Howells, in part: "'G. Gris...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens478 - Samuel L. Clemens
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ALS signed “Mark,” one page, 4.25 x 7, no date but annotated on the reverse as June 19, 1887. Letter to New York Times critic and columnist Edward H.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Samuel L. Clemens, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie479 - Samuel L. Clemens, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie
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Ambrose Swasey's program for the inaugural banquet of The Engineers Club on December 9, 1907, bound in Scottish tartan silk with gilt-stamped ti...
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge480 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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ALS signed “S. T. Coleridge,” one page, 7.25 x 9.25, April 17, 1810. Letter to essayist Thomas De Quincy, remembered for his Confessions of an English
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Joseph Conrad481 - Joseph Conrad
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ALS signed “J. Conrad,” one page both sides, 5 x 8, South Eastern Hotel letterhead, September 9, 1920. Letter to "My very dear Edward," in...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Charles Dickens482 - Charles Dickens
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 7, December 15, 1847. Letter declining an invitation, in part: "I regret to say that I cannot possibly have the pleasure ...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Emily Dickinson483 - Emily Dickinson
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Scarce first edition book from the personal library of publisher Henry Holt: The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime by Emily Dickinson, with an introdu
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Charles L. Dodgson484 - Charles L. Dodgson
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ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one page, 4.75 x 6.25, May 4, 1892. Letter to drama critic Clement Scott, in part: "To judge by the 'Standard&#...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Arthur Conan Doyle485 - Arthur Conan Doyle
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ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page both sides, 5 x 8, Gloucester Hotel letterhead, August 13. Letter to Frances Williams, in part: "Your rep...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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