RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Literature

Rare and desirable 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Alexandre Dumas in a distinguished head-and-shoulders pose, signed boldly below the image in bl

ALS signed “R. W. Emerson,” one page both sides, 4.25 x 6.75, June 5, 1855. Letter to "Mrs. Wagner," in part: "I am sorry that today ...

ALS in French, signed “G. Flaubert,” one page, 5.25 x 8, October 1, [no year]. Letter to Claudius Popelin, painter, writer, and sometime lover of Prin

TLS signed “yours ever, Ian F.,” one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, May 9, 1955. Letter to journalist and spy Antony Terry of the British Pre

Untranslated autograph manuscript draft in French, headed "Courrier de Paris," 34 pages contained in a 7 x 8.25 three-quarter leather bind...

Signed book: Steeple Bush. First edition, limited issue, numbered 565/751. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Hardcover with glassine jacket and slipca

Unsigned handwritten verse in German from Goethe's Book of Proverbs, neatly penned on a 6 x 2.25 slip. In full: "'Wie ungeschickt habt ...

ALS signed “Nath'l Hawthorne,” two pages, 4.75 x 7, February 4, 1864. Letter to Henry W. Donett, in part: "I have copied the passage from t...

ALS signed “Nath'l Hawthorne,” one page, 3.5 x 4.5, May 10, 1860. Letter to "My dear Motley," written from Bath, in full: "Will i...

ALS in Spanish and English, signed “Papa,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 7.25, Paris Hotel Ritz letterhead, December 27, 1957. Letter to his friend Robe