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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Lexicographers and Journalists578 - Lexicographers and Journalists
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Group lot of five items signed by a notable journalist or lexicographer, including: an ALS in French from Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, signe...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Limited Editions Club579 - Limited Editions Club
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Three slipcased hardcover books published by the Limited Editions Club, each signed on the colophon by the illustrator: The Baster of Ballantrae by Ro
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Jack London580 - Jack London
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Popular American novelist (1876-1916), best known for such adventure classics as The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and White Fang, who drew his writ
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Jack London581 - Jack London
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Signed book: Burning Daylight. First edition. NY: Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.75, 361 pages. Signed on an off-white slip clipped from a check,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow582 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Two items: an ALS signed "Henry W. Longfellow," three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, August 16, 1860, to James Topham Brady, in ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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W. Somerset Maugham583 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Signed book: Ah King. First edition, limited issue, numbered 109/175. London: William Heinemann, 1933. Hardcover with acetate jacket, 6 x 9, 339 pages
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James A. Michener584 - James A. Michener
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Signed book: The Covenant. Later printing. NY: Random House, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 873 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-
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Henry Miller585 - Henry Miller
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ALS, one page, 7.5 x 5.5, May 12, 1948. Letter to art dealers, in which Miller expresses interest in buying one of his own paintings, in full: "...
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Toni Morrison586 - Toni Morrison
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Signed book: Paradise. Later printing. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 318 pages. Signed on the title page in black
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John O'Hara587 - John O'Hara
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TLS signed “John,” one page, 5.75 x 8.75, October 30, 1957. Letter to "Swanie," his agent H. N. Swanson, in full: "I received your te...
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