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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Alexandre Dumas, fils547 - Alexandre Dumas, fils
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French writer and dramatist (1824-1895) best known for Camille and for being the illegitimate son of famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. Superb 4.25 x 6.5
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Will and Ariel Durant548 - Will and Ariel Durant
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Color glossy portraits of writers Will and Ariel Durant affixed to a black 19 x 12 cardstock mount, signed and inscribed in white crayon by the husban
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Lawrence Durrell549 - Lawrence Durrell
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Signed book: Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale. First edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8, 201 pages. Signed ...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller550 - Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller
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Three books: a hardcover copy of Blue Thirst by Lawrence Durrell, published by Capra Press in 1975, numbered "G" of 250, signed on the col...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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T. S. Eliot551 - T. S. Eliot
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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Faber & Faber letterhead, January 18, 1935. Letter to Robert J. Swan, in part: "I should be glad in principle to giv...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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James T. Farrell552 - James T. Farrell
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TLS signed “Jim,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, June 6, 1939. Letter to George Stevens of the Saturday Review of Literature, in part: &qu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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William Faulkner553 - William Faulkner
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Signed book: The Town. First edition, limited issue, numbered 93/450. NY: Random House, 1957. Hardcover in acetate jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 371 pages. Sig
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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William Faulkner554 - William Faulkner
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Unsigned first edition book: These Thirteen by William Faulkner. First edition. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Hardcover with dust ja...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jules Feiffer555 - Jules Feiffer
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Signed book: The Man in the Ceiling. First edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 185 pages. Signed on the first f
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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E. M. Forster556 - E. M. Forster
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ALS signed “Morgan,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, King's College letterhead, April 27, 1960. In part: "Great minds move together!! Here is...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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