RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts featuring Science Fiction

Signed book: Dune. Later printing. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 412 pages. Signed on the title pag

Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed at the conclusion in blue felt tip by Vonnegut. The opening to his novel Slapstick, beginning: "...

Signed book: Ringworld. First edition thus, first printing. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 342 pages. S

Popular American pulp fiction writer (1898–1988) who collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft in the 1930s and had a literary resurgence in the 1970s. Galley

Spectacular signed book: Firestarter. First edition, limited issue, numbered 16/725. West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1980. Hardcover with dust j

Glossy 8 x 10 Famous Films Productions publicity photo of King holding a cat, with a kitten on his shoulder, for the 1985 anthology horror film Cat&...

Signed book: And the Gods Laughed. First edition, limited issue of 26 lettered copies (letter "F"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, ...

Signed book: The Folk of the Fringe. First edition, limited issue of 26 lettered copies (letter "A"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press...

Unsigned first edition book: Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover with facsim

Unsigned first edition book: The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. Hardcover with dust

Gorgeous signed book: Robots and Empire. First edition, limited issue of 35 lettered copies (letter "C"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia P...

Two items: a glossy 8 x 10 publicity photo of Asimov with his trademark mutton chops, signed in black felt tip; and a TNS on an off-white 8.5 x 1.25 s

Signed book: The Illustrated Man. First edition. NY: Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 251 pages. Signed and inscribed on the f

Signed book: A Medicine for Melancholy. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 240 p

Ray Bradbury's personally-owned limited edition color 22 x 30 artist proof print of Robert Watson’s stunning cover art for the second 1953 editi...

Glossy 10.25 x 8 photo of Bradbury seated on a console at Mission Control at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, signed and inscribed in black felt tip...

Two glossy 10 x 8 Walt Disney publicity photos for the 1983 film Something Wicked This Way Comes. The first photo shows Ray Bradbury posing at the fil

Glossy 8 x 10 close-up photo of the famed science fiction author, signed in black felt tip by Crichton. In fine condition, with some light creasing to

Revolutionary War–dated LS signed “G:o Washington,” one page, 7.25 x 11.75, September 19, 1778. Letter to Col. Matthias Ogden, sent from "West ...

ANS signed “G. W—n,” one page, 3 x 2, no date [but circa 1780s]. Short note concerning his nascent franking privilege, written next to a unique, small

Gorgeous ink signature, "G:o Washington,” on an off-white 3.25 x 1 slip. Handsomely double-cloth-matted and framed with an engraved portrait to...

Miniature carved wooden axe, 7.25 x 3.5, made of wood from an elm tree growing in the area where General George Washington encamped his army prior to

Printed pamphlet soliciting funds for the construction of a new funerary monument for Mary Ball Washington, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 1

Wonderful carving of a Durham boat similar to the one used in Washington’s crossing of the Delaware, made of wood from an elm tree growing in the area

Exceedingly rare ALS by First Lady Martha Washington, retaining its original free-franked address panel by President George Washington: ALS signed “M.

ALS signed "Th: Jefferson," one page, 8 x 9.5, Monticello, January 16, 1820. Letter to Robert Hanna, Sr. In full: "A letter from you,...

Desirable free franked address panel, 5.25 x 3.5, dated and addressed in another hand, "Quincy MA, May 25th, Free, Mathew Carey Esq're, Phi...

DS as president, one page, 11.5 x 14.5, December 5, 1809. A patent issued to Atkinson Farra, who “hath alleged that he has invented a new and useful i

Partly-printed DS, signed “James Madison" as president and "Jas. Monroe" as secretary of state, one page, 21.25 x 16.75, December 3, ...

Manuscript DS, signed “James Monroe” as president and “John Quincy Adams” as secretary of state, one page, 9.75 x 15.25, June 25, 1822. President Monr

Manuscript bank check, 7.75 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by John Jacob Astor, payable to James Monroe for $3,400, April 21, 1815. In fin

Free-franked address panel accomplished in Adams's hand, 8.5 x 5.25, addressed to "E. Rockwood Hoar Esqt, Concord, Mass'tts,” and frank...

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 20.5 x 16, January 19, 1836. Four-language ship's paper issued to "George Gibbs, master or comman...

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 9.75, March 3, 1831. President Jackson grants James Anderson of Parke County, Indiana, a trac

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “M. Van Buren,” one page, 11.5 x 14.5, November 24, 1837. Scallop-topped ship's paper issued to &q...

Manuscript DS, signed “Wm. H. Harrison, Lieut: Comm'dr,” one page, 7.25 x 11.75, April 12, 1797. Quartermaster's receipt headed "Return...

ALS signed “Z. Taylor, Lt. Col., U. S. Army Comdg,” one page, 7.25 x 9.5, August 22, 1832. Letter to Captain Thomas Jesup, in full, “Presuming that th

ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.25 x 10, April 2, 1832. Letter to Governor James Iredell, Jr., of North Carolina. In part: “Your letter co

ALS signed “Fr. Pierce,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 7.5, no date. Letter to Benjamin F. Hallett, in full: "I intended to leave the city at 12 o...

An important signed book from Buchanan's legal library: Reports of Edward Coke, Parts V–VII. London: Printed by the Assigns of Rich, and Edw. At...

Rare ADS, signed “Stuart & Lincoln, p. q.,” one page both sides, 7.5 x 12.5, November 1839. Sangamon County legal document penned entirely in Li...

Civil War-dated partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.25 x 18.5, July 1, 1864. President Lincoln appoints Robert Lennox as "First...

Quill pen, 5.5? long, made by Abraham Lincoln’s cousin and tutor, Dennis F. Hanks. Pen is tied with green ribbon to a 4.5 x 2 card, with a handwritten

Very rare large broadside of a circular letter issued in North Carolina following Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, one p...

Desirable 5 x 7 commemorative albumen print memorializing Abraham Lincoln as "The Martyr of Freedom," published in 1865 by Charles Magnus ...

Original printed proclamation, 5.5 x 8.75, three pages on two adjoining sheets, dated April 12, 1865. Three proclamations made by President Abraham Li

Manuscript DS as president, one page, 7 x 8.5, July 13, 1865. In full: "John B. Messick, a Prisoner of War at Fort McHenry will be released upo...

Ink signature as president, "Andrew Johnson, June 25th 1867,” on an off-white 4.5 x 4 sheet. In fine condition.

Civil War–dated ALS signed “U. S. Grant, Brig. Gen. Com.,” one page, 7.5 x 7, September 17, 1861. Letter to Colonel Leonard Fulton Ross at Fort Jeffer

Uncommon manuscript DS as president, one page, 7.5 x 10, November 4, 1870. President Grant appoints Jonathan F. Hartley as "Acting Secretary of...

Leatherbound autograph album, 7 x 4.25, signed inside in ink by over thirty political figures, very few signed back-to-back, including: Rutherford B.

Magnificent 9.75 x 8.25 mounted albumen photograph of Garfield giving his inaugural address on the east portico of the US Capitol on March 4, 1881, af

LS signed “J. A. Garfield,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.5 x 9.75, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives letterhead, March 21,

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 9 x 15.25, December 15, 1884. President Arthur appoints Luther Harrison as "Assistant Commissioner of...

Tremendous 13 x 16.25 albumen portrait of Cleveland in a distinguished bust-length pose, signed in ink as president, "Grover Cleveland, 1894,&q...

ALS as president signed “Benj. Harrison,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Executive Mansion letterhead, March 16, 1892. Letter to Mrs. J. S. Clarkson, in part: &...

Handsome 5.5 x 7.75 cabinet-style composite photo of William and Ida McKinley and their home by Courtney Studios of Canton, Ohio, affixed to its origi

Handsome matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 half-length portrait of Roosevelt by George Prince, affixed to its original 6.75 x 8.5 studio mount, signed and inscr

TLS, one page, 8.25 x 10.75, Metropolitan letterhead, September 24, 1916. Letter to George E. Vincent, the president of the University of Minnesota, i

Oval matte-finish 6 x 8 portrait of the president taken in 1904 by George Prince, affixed to a 10.25 x 13.25 mount, signed and inscribed on the mount

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22 x 18, August 15, 1907. President Roosevelt appoints Calvin F. Smith as "Consul of the United State...

TLS as president, two pages, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, July 9, 1906. Letter to Grosvenor A. Porter, a cousin of Edith K. Roosevelt. In full: “

Partial TLS, one page, 8 x 7, no date. The interesting conclusion of a longer letter, in part: "Evidently the Post editorial was written by Wel...

Signed book: A History of the American People, Volume I. Alumni edition, limited issue, numbered 25/350. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover,...

General Order regarding the observance of the Sabbath Day in the US Army and Navy, one page, 5.25 x 8, White House letterhead, January 20, 1918. In fu

TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, July 9, 1953. Letter to Harry Hooker, FDR's first law partner and Eleanor's attorney, in ...

Unusual bound typescript of Gabriel Over the White House as published in New York by Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Hardcover, 8.5 x 11, 282 pages. Si...

Official circular distributed among the Harvard Class of 1904 regarding their plans to honor the life and family of late President Franklin D. Rooseve

TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, April 30, 1934. Letter to Wentworth Bacon of Canoe Hill Farm in Millbrook, New York, in

Unique pairing of items signed by Truman: a Series 1935 D silver certificate one-dollar bill, signed on the left side in fountain pen, "Harry S...

Uncommon White House 'first day cover,' 6.75 x 4.75, postmarked May 19, 1947, signed in black ink by President Truman. In fine condition, wi...

Impressive matte-finish 10 x 13 portrait of Truman in its original 15.5 x 19.5 presentation mat, signed and inscribed on the mat in fountain pen, &q...

Signed book: Report of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion. First edition. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1952.

Exceptional ALS in pencil signed “xxx, Jackie,” three pages on two sheets, 8.25 x 10.5, postmarked August 1955. Letter to her mother Janet Auchincloss

John F. Kennedy's personal 'victory map' of Cuba used during the Cuban Missile Crisis, measuring 55 x 21 (irregularly trimmed, in two sh...

Vintage matte-finish 11 x 13.75 photo of Kennedy shaking hands with Joe Venneri at a function, with both gentlemen wearing name tags, signed and inscr

Typed speech draft hand-corrected by Senator John F. Kennedy, two pages, 8.5 x 11, dated and titled "New York Herald Tribune Excerpt—Oct. 29, 1...

Two original color photos: a glossy 10 x 8 full-length photo of President Kennedy standing in the Oval Office next to Connecticut Congressman-at-Large

Signed book: Profiles in Courage. Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed and inscri...

The personal diary of Maud Shaw, official White House nanny during the Kennedy administration, which details the development of Caroline and John Kenn

Unique collection of eight flexi-disc recordings made by Vice President Richard Nixon for conservative columnist Ralph de Toledano, an associate edito

Souvenir typescript of President Bush's historic statement on September 11, 2001, two pages, 5 x 8.25, mock White House letterhead, signed at th...

Ink signature as president, "Chester A. Arthur, Octo: 13, 1883,” on an off-white 4.5 x 3.25 sheet. In fine condition. On the same date of this ...

TLS, one page, 6.25 x 8.5, personal letterhead, September 25, 2003. Letter to Ron Wade, in full: "That advertisement appeared when I was at Yal...

Signed book: All the Best, George Bush. First edition. NY: Scribner, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 640 pages. Signed and inscribed on a

Signed book: Flight of the Avenger. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 178 pages. Signed in blue ball

Glossy 7.5 x 9.5 photo of Bush as ambassador to the United Nations, signed and inscribed in the right border in black felt tip, "To George Step...

Signed book: C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life. NY: Doubleday, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.25 x 10.5, 109 pages. Signed and inscribed on...

Signed book: Barbara Bush: A Memoir. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 575 pages. Signed and i...

Signed book: A Fresh Start for America. Austin, TX: Bush For President, Inc., 1999. Softcover, 5.25 x 8.25, 208 pages. Signed on the front cover in bl

Group of three books signed by George W. Bush, all hardcover with dust jacket, including: Decision Points, signed and inscribed on the title page in b

Color glossy 10 x 8 photo of Andy Card informing President Bush of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, signed in the lower border in blac

Group of five first edition books, each hardcover with dust jacket, signed on an opening page in black ink or felt tip, “J. Carter,” with titles inclu

Group of four hardcover books, all with dust jackets, each signed inside by Carter: The President Builds a House, signed and inscribed on the half-tit

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Carters together in their later years, signed in black felt tip, "J. Carter" and "Rosalynn Car...

Color glossy 7.5 x 9.5 photo of the Carters together, signed in blue felt tip, "Best Wishes! Jimmy Carter" and "Rosalynn Carter."...

ALS, one page both sides, 4 x 6, June 13, 1899. Letter to William T. Sinclair, steward at the White House, in part: "You wrote some time ago ab...

Signed book: Giving. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9.5, 240 pages. Signed on the title page in black felt

Signed book: My Life. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 957 pages. Signed on the title page in black fe

Two books signed by Clinton: a first edition of Giving, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2007, signed on the title page in