RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science Fiction

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Loaded with over 1,000 lots, RR Auction’s April Fine Autograph and Artifact sale features an amazing assortment of historic collectibles. This catalog begins with a featured section of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, exploring these popular genres across Hollywood and literature—from Forrest J. Ackerman’s Frankenstein posters to screen-used Star Trek props to first editions by Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, and King. Other top highlights in this sale are: a letter sent by George Washington from West Point during the Revolution; an exceedingly rare Martha Washington autograph letter boasting a presidential free frank; a significant letter by Martin Luther King, Jr., on Jackie Robinson; a fully-signed Beatles Parlophone Records promo card; and letters by renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz. 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 2018.
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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Salvador Dali525 - Salvador Dali
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Signed book: Salvador Dali: Paintings, Drawings, Prints. First edition. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1941. Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.25, 87 pages. Prominently
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Eugene Delacroix526 - Eugene Delacroix
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French artist (1798–1863) who takes a place in the first rank of painters in the Romantic tradition and whose mastery of color and technique inspired
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Keith Haring527 - Keith Haring
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Rare ALS signed “Keith,” one page, 8.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, no date. Letter to "Michael," discussing his growth as an artist and...
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Heinrich Hoffmann528 - Heinrich Hoffmann
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German psychiatrist who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter, an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving (1809–1894). AMS
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Kazimir Malevich529 - Kazimir Malevich
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Russian painter (1879-1935) who was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde, Suprematist movement. DS in Cyrillic, s
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
 
 
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Henri Matisse530 - Henri Matisse
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Desirable ALS in French, signed “H. Matisse,” one page both sides, 5.75 x 3.75, Hotel Lutetia letterhead, November 30, 1934. Letter to "Emile,&...
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Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Henri Matisse531 - Henri Matisse
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ALS in French, one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard depicting a Moroccan mosque, January 15, 1913. Letter to French art historian and essayist Elie Faure,
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Joan Miro532 - Joan Miro
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ALS in French, signed “Miro,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 8.75, no date. Untranslated letter to writer Rene Bertele. In fine condition. Accompanied by
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Thomas Nast533 - Thomas Nast
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Influential early American political cartoonist and illustrator (1840–1902) considered to be the 'Father of the American Cartoon.' Wonderful...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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Pablo Picasso534 - Pablo Picasso
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French exhibition catalog for "Picasso: Oeuvres de 1900 a 1914," published in 1954 by the Maison de la Pensee Francaise, 6 x 8.5, signed o...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Pablo Picasso535 - Pablo Picasso
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Czechoslovakian postage stamp of Picasso's world-renowned Guernica mural, affixed to a white 4 x 2.5 card, signed in yellow felt tip, "Pica...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Felicien Rops536 - Felicien Rops
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Belgian artist (1833–1898) known primarily as a printmaker in etching and aquatint, famed for his work that tends to mingle sex and death. ALS in Fren
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
 
 
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Alfred Stieglitz537 - Alfred Stieglitz
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Photographer and modern art promoter (1864–1946), husband of Georgia O'Keeffe, who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photogr...
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Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
 
 
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Ernest Shepard538 - Ernest Shepard
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ALS signed “Ernest H. Shepard,” three pages on two sheets, 6.25 x 7, personal letterhead, September 6, 1967. Letter to Evelyn Byrne, in part: “When I
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Andy Warhol539 - Andy Warhol
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Signed book: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Later printing. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover with dust ...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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N. C. Wyeth540 - N. C. Wyeth
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ALS, two pages, 7 x 7.75, March 31, 1924. Written from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a letter to S. D. Green, in full: "Your letter and request of...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Frank Lloyd Wright541 - Frank Lloyd Wright
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Important typescript article entitled “To the Fifty-Eight,” copiously emended and annotated in black ink by Frank Lloyd Wright, five pages, 8.5 x 11,
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Gustave Dore542 - Gustave Dore
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Painter and illustrator (1832-1883) known for his illustrated editions of books by Rabelais, Balzac, Dante, Milton, and others. ALS in French, signed
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Tsuguharu Foujita543 - Tsuguharu Foujita
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Japanese painter and printmaker (1886–1968) whose work combined Japanese techniques with Western style. Untranslated ANS in French, signed “Foujita,”
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Al Hirschfeld544 - Al Hirschfeld
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Four items signed in ink or pencil by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld: a glossy 8 x 10 photo of a Hirschfeld sketch depicting Peter O'Toole in the 19...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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