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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Frank Herbert: Dune Signed Book101Frank Herbert: Dune Signed Book
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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
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Kurt Vonnegut Signed Typescript102Kurt Vonnegut Signed Typescript
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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: "...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Larry Niven: Ringworld Signed Book103Larry Niven: Ringworld Signed Book
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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
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
E. Hoffmann Price: The Devil Wives of Li Fong Galley Proof104E. Hoffmann Price: The Devil Wives of Li Fong Galley Proof
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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
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Stephen King: Firestarter Signed Book105Stephen King: Firestarter Signed Book
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Spectacular signed book: Firestarter. First edition, limited issue, numbered 16/725. West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1980. Hardcover with dust j
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Stephen King Signed Photograph106Stephen King Signed Photograph
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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&...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Fredric Brown: And the Gods Laughed Signed Book107Fredric Brown: And the Gods Laughed Signed Book
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Signed book: And the Gods Laughed. First edition, limited issue of 26 lettered copies (letter "F"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, ...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Orson Scott Card: The Folk of the Fringe Signed Book108Orson Scott Card: The Folk of the Fringe Signed Book
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Signed book: The Folk of the Fringe. First edition, limited issue of 26 lettered copies (letter "A"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Isaac Asimov: Pebble in the Sky First Edition Book109Isaac Asimov: Pebble in the Sky First Edition Book
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Unsigned first edition book: Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover with facsim
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Isaac Asimov: The End of Eternity First Edition Book110Isaac Asimov: The End of Eternity First Edition Book
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Unsigned first edition book: The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. First edition, first printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. Hardcover with dust
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Isaac Asimov: Robots and Empire Signed Book111Isaac Asimov: Robots and Empire Signed Book
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Gorgeous signed book: Robots and Empire. First edition, limited issue of 35 lettered copies (letter "C"). West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia P...
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Isaac Asimov Signed Photograph and Typed Note112Isaac Asimov Signed Photograph and Typed Note
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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
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man Signed Book113Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man Signed Book
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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
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Ray Bradbury: A Medicine for Melancholy Signed Book114Ray Bradbury: A Medicine for Melancholy Signed Book
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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
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Print115Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Print
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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...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Ray Bradbury Signed Photograph116Ray Bradbury Signed Photograph
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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...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Ray Bradbury Signed Photographs117Ray Bradbury Signed Photographs
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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
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Michael Crichton Signed Photograph118Michael Crichton Signed Photograph
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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
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
George Washington119George Washington
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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 ...
Estimate : 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
George Washington120George Washington
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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
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
George Washington121George Washington
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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...
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
George Washington122George Washington
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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
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
George Washington123George Washington
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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
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
George Washington124George Washington
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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
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Martha Washington and George Washington125Martha Washington and George Washington
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Exceedingly rare ALS by First Lady Martha Washington, retaining its original free-franked address panel by President George Washington: ALS signed “M.
Thomas Jefferson126Thomas Jefferson
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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,...
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 15,000.00
John Adams127John Adams
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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...
Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
James Madison128James Madison
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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
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
James Madison and James Monroe129James Madison and James Monroe
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Partly-printed DS, signed “James Madison" as president and "Jas. Monroe" as secretary of state, one page, 21.25 x 16.75, December 3, ...
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
James Monroe and John Quincy Adams130James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
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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
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
James Monroe: John Jacob Astor131James Monroe: John Jacob Astor
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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
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
John Quincy Adams132John Quincy Adams
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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...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Andrew Jackson133Andrew Jackson
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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...
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Andrew Jackson134Andrew Jackson
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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
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Martin Van Buren135Martin Van Buren
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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...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
William Henry Harrison136William Henry Harrison
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Manuscript DS, signed “Wm. H. Harrison, Lieut: Comm'dr,” one page, 7.25 x 11.75, April 12, 1797. Quartermaster's receipt headed "Return...
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Zachary Taylor137Zachary Taylor
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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
Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
John Tyler138John Tyler
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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
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
Franklin Pierce139Franklin Pierce
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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...
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
James Buchanan140James Buchanan
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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...
Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
Abraham Lincoln141Abraham Lincoln
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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...
Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
Abraham Lincoln142Abraham Lincoln
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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...
Estimate : 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
Abraham Lincoln143Abraham Lincoln
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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
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
Abraham Lincoln144Abraham Lincoln
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Very rare large broadside of a circular letter issued in North Carolina following Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, one p...
Estimate : 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
Abraham Lincoln145Abraham Lincoln
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Desirable 5 x 7 commemorative albumen print memorializing Abraham Lincoln as "The Martyr of Freedom," published in 1865 by Charles Magnus ...
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Abraham Lincoln146Abraham Lincoln
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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
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Andrew Johnson147Andrew Johnson
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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...
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
Andrew Johnson148Andrew Johnson
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Ink signature as president, "Andrew Johnson, June 25th 1867,” on an off-white 4.5 x 4 sheet. In fine condition.
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
U. S. Grant149U. S. Grant
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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
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
U. S. Grant150U. S. Grant
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Uncommon manuscript DS as president, one page, 7.5 x 10, November 4, 1870. President Grant appoints Jonathan F. Hartley as "Acting Secretary of...
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00