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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Anatole France557 - Anatole France
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ALS in French, four pages, 8.25 x 12.25, February 2, 1917. Untranslated letter to his friend, the art critic Eugene Richtenberger, with latter portion
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Theophile Gautier558 - Theophile Gautier
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Rare ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date [September 25, 1846]. Letter to "Desrez," in part (loosely translated): "If you wa...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Jean Genet559 - Jean Genet
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Prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist (1910-1986). ANS in French, one page, 4.25 x 6.5, no d
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Allen Ginsberg560 - Allen Ginsberg
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Signed book: Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. First edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.7
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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William Goldman561 - William Goldman
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Signed book: The Temple of Gold. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 278 pages. Signed and inscribed on
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Graham Greene562 - Graham Greene
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Signed book: The Great Jowett. First edition, limited issue, numbered 81/525. London: The Bodley Head, 1981. Hardcover with acetate jacket, 5 x 8.25,
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Zane Grey563 - Zane Grey
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Personal check, 6.25 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Zane Grey, payable to Keystone Engineering, Co. for $34.50, July 7, 1928. Double-matted and frame
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Joel Chandler Harris564 - Joel Chandler Harris
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Sought-after book: Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. First edition, third state. NY: D. Appleton and Compan
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Robert Heinlein566 - Robert Heinlein
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Sought-after first edition book: Rocket Ship Galileo. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Ernest Hemingway567 - Ernest Hemingway
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Very desirable pairing of bullfight tickets for a contest at the Plaza Toros Monumental in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on Monday, June 29, 1959, both
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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