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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Italo Calvino537 - Italo Calvino
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Signed French-language book: Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur [If on a winter's night a traveler]. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1981. Softco...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Truman Capote538 - Truman Capote
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ALS signed “T.,” penned on the reverse of a 5.75 x 4.25 postcard from Verbier, Switzerland, postmarked February 10, 1972. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
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Rachel Carson539 - Rachel Carson
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Unsigned first edition book: Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1941. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 8...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Jonathan Carver540 - Jonathan Carver
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Desirable book: Three Years Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America by Capt. Jonathan Carver. Later printing. Charlestown and Boston: P
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Samuel L. Clemens541 - Samuel L. Clemens
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First edition book: The Curious Republic of Gondour. First edition. NY: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5, 140 pages. Book condition: VG/VG
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Samuel L. Clemens542 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Handsome book: Eve's Diary by Mark Twain. First edition. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 109 pages. Boo...
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Jean Cocteau543 - Jean Cocteau
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ALS in French, signed “Jean,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.75, October 20, 1956. Letter to Margaret Brusset, the wife of acclaimed French painter Je
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Malcolm Cowley, Berenice Abbott, and Morrill Cody544 - Malcolm Cowley, Berenice Abbott, and Morrill Cody
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Two signed books: a Limited Editions Club hardcover entitled Exile's Return, numbered 1371/2000, signed on the colophon ink by Malcolm Cowley an...
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August Derleth545 - August Derleth
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Signed book: Dark of the Moon. First edition, limited issue of 2500 copies. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5
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Theodore Dreiser546 - Theodore Dreiser
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ALS, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, August 5, 1937. In part: "The best address I can give for Evelyn Light at this writing is…I do not find her in the te...
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