RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Pop Culture

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RR Auction's April Fine Autograph and Artifact sale features an impressive selection of pop culture material, including a fully signed Led Zeppelin debut album, a Hofner 'Beatle' bass autographed by Paul McCartney, John F. Kennedy's rocking chair from the Carlyle Hotel, a "gold coin" interest note signed by legendary gangster Al Capone, an Apple award signed by Steve Jobs, a Charles Schulz comic strip, and the white suit of KFC founder Colonel Sanders. Other top items include a letter by Queen Elizabeth I, a Henry David Thoreau handwritten manuscript page, an important letter by Thomas Jefferson about the Bonaparte family, a rare check by Charles Darwin, and a handful of vintage Topps baseball card sets. 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 April 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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Mildred Benson342 - Mildred Benson
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Signed book: The Secret in the Old Attic. First edition, first printing. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.75, 21...
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Pearl S. Buck343 - Pearl S. Buck
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, January 16, 1952. Letter to Ken Browne, in part: "I have never sent my photographs out but I w...
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Paulo Coelho344 - Paulo Coelho
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Signed book: The Alchemist. First English edition. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 8.5, 177 pages. Signed
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Michael Crichton345 - Michael Crichton
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Two signed books: a first trade edition of Jurassic Park, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1990, hardcover with dust jacket, signed on a loosely laid-i
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Michael Crichton346 - Michael Crichton
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Matte-finish 4 x 5 photo of the Jurassic Park author posing below the shadow of a dinosaur, signed in silver ink, "Michael Crichton." In f...
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E. E. Cummings347 - E. E. Cummings
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DS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 9 x 18.5, August 16, 1947. Lease agreement between Hugh Keenan and E. E. Cummings, in which the former as lan
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E. L. Doctorow348 - E. L. Doctorow
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Signed book: Ragtime. First edition. NY: Random House, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 270 pages. Signed on the first free end page in b
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Umberto Eco349 - Umberto Eco
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Two first edition books (one signed by the author): a first English edition of The Name of the Rose, hardcover with dust jacket, published in 1983 by
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Edna Ferber350 - Edna Ferber
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Two TLSs, each one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, dated 1955 and 1957. The first, dated January 28, 1955, in part: "It makes me happy ...
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Robert Frost351 - Robert Frost
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Color 5 x 6 portrait of Frost removed from a Time Magazine cover, signed and inscribed along the top in blue ink, "For the Ken Brownes, that th...
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Allen Ginsberg352 - Allen Ginsberg
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Satin-finish 8 x 10 publicity photo of Ginsberg posing against an amusing backdrop of hanging key, chalk, camera, and lyrics, signed in the lower bord
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Charles Hamilton353 - Charles Hamilton
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Desirable unsigned books: American Autographs, Volumes 1 and 2. First edition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. Clothbound hardcover, 9
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Alphonse de Lamartine354 - Alphonse de Lamartine
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French writer (1790–1869) best known for his autobiographical poem 'The Lake,' who also worked as a diplomat and politician in the Second Re...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr355 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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AQS on an off-white 4.75 x 2.5 slip applied to an ornately-bordered album page, crisply signed at the conclusion, "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bosto...
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W. Somerset Maugham356 - W. Somerset Maugham
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Three items signed by the great British author: a matte-finish 3.75 x 4.75 portrait of him seated and holding a cigarette, signed at the top in founta
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Ogden Nash357 - Ogden Nash
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 1, 1956. Letter to Ken Browne, in part: "I have a phobia about photographs of myself. I ...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings358 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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ALS, one page, 6.5 x 3.5, March 6, 1946. Letter to Sigurd Berg, in full: "I was tempted to add to your envelope after 'novelist,' '...
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J. K. Rowling359 - J. K. Rowling
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Sought-after ballpoint signature, "J. K. Rowling,” on a white 5 x 3.5 card. In very fine condition.
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J. D. Salinger360 - J. D. Salinger
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Desirable first edition book: Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger. First edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket (
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Maurice Sendak361 - Maurice Sendak
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Signed book: In the Night Kitchen. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.75 x 11.25, 40 pages. Signed on the first free end page...
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